Hearing the Voices of Children: Social Policy for a New Century

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ISBN: 9780415276412 | 0415276411
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 9/9/2003

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The authors argue that children's voices should be heard much more strongly in the process of policy formation at all levels. Although there is growing support for this idea, it is not without opposition, and the authors themselves make many critical points about the current attempts to put it into practice.

List of illustrations

vii

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

xvi

Introduction

(8)

ALAN PROLIT AND CHRISTINE HALLETT

PART I Hearing children's voices

(62)

1 Participation, policy and the changing conditions of childhood

(15)

ALAN PROLIT

2 Children's participation in policy matters

(12)

HELEN ROBERTS

3 Children's participation through community development: assessing the lessons from international experience

(19)

GARY CRAIG

4 Citizen child: London children's participation in the Office of the Children's Rights Commissioner for London

(14)

MOIRA RAYNER

PART II Discourses of childhood

(50)

5 Finnish conceptions of children and the history of child welfare

(16)

MIRJASAIKA

6 The needy child and the naturalization of politics: political debate in Germany

(17)

DORIS BÜHLER-NIEDERBERGER

7 Contradictory and convergent trends in law and policy affecting children in England

106

(15)

PAM FOLEM, NIGEL PARTON, JEREMY ROCHE AND STANLEY TUCKER

PART III Children and services

121

(90)

8 Young people and welfare: negotiating pathways

123

(16)

CHRISTINE HALLETT, CATHY MURRAY AND SAMANTHA PUNCH

9 'Could have helped but they didn't': the formal and informal support systems experienced by children living with domestic violence

139

(19)

AUDREY MULLENDER, GILL HAGUE, UMME FARVAH IMAM, LIZ KELLY, ELLEN MALOS AND LINDA REGAN

10 Children's participation in family law matters

158

(19)

JUDY CASHMORE

11 The social construction of competence and problem behaviour among children

177

(15)

ELISABETH BACKE-HANSEN

12 Reconstructing disability, childhood and social policy in the UK

192

(19)

JOHN DAVIS, NICK WATSON, MAIRIAN CORKER AND TOM SHAKESPEARE

PART IV Resources for children

211

(46)

13 Child poverty and child health in international perspective

213

(24)

JONATHAN BRADSHAW

14 Children's share of household consumption

237

(20)

HANNELE SAULI

Index

257

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Hearing the Voices of Children: Social Policy for a New Century

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