Enhancing Children's Rights

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Rights, Research and Policy

      • Anne B. Smith

      Pages 3-14

3. The Body

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Reforms to Healthcare Systems and Policies: Influences from Children’s Rights

      • Priscilla Alderson

      Pages 17-32

   3. Changing the Law on Physical Punishment in New Zealand

      • Anne B. Smith

      Pages 33-47

   4. The Child’s Right to Play: Laying the Building Blocks for Optimal Health and Weil-Being

      • Rita Shackel

      Pages 48-61

4. Early Childhood Education

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

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   2. Early Childhood Services in England: Policy, Research and Practice

      • Gillian Pugh

      Pages 65-79

   3. Early Childhood Education in New Zealand: Progress and Challenges in Achieving Children’s Rights

      • Anne B. Smith

      Pages 80-94

   4. Children’s Rights and Early-Years Provision in India

      • Vinnarasan Aruldoss, John M. Davis

      Pages 95-107

5. Child Protection

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109

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   2. Child Protection: Policies for Vulnerable Children in New Zealand

      • Anne B. Smith

      Pages 111-126

   3. Children in Care: Global Perspectives on the Challenges of Securing Their Well-Being and Rights

      • Robbie Gilligan

      Pages 127-139

   4. Children and Young People Leaving Care

      • Judith Cashmore, Philip Mendes

      Pages 140-150

   5. Family and Care Policies for Children in the Former Soviet Union: What Is Changing in Russia and Lithuania?

      • Ekaterina Yazykova, Liepa V. Boberiene

      Pages 151-164

   6. Child Rights and Well-Being in Latin America: A Role for Conditional Cash Transfers?

      • Jill D. McLeigh, Francisco Pilotti

      Pages 165-179

6. Participation, Politics and the Law

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181

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   2. Taking Account of Children: How Far Have We Come in England?

      • Carolyne Willow

      Pages 183-196

   3. Young People as Leaders in (and Sometimes Victims of) Political and Cultural Change

      • Gary B. Melton, Weijun Wang

      Pages 197-213

This volume explores how children's rights has influenced research with children and how research can in turn shape policies and practices to enhance children's rights. The book examines the impact children's rights and Childhood Studies has had on how children are constructed and regulated internationally.

• Children's rights
• childhood studies
• social justice
• policy
• children
• early childhood education
• child protection
• play
• discipline
• child participation
• state care
• family law
• law
• care
• childhood
• childhood education
• early childhood
• education
• health
• Nation
• participation
• politics
• service

• University of Otago College of Education, Dunedin, New Zealand

  Anne B. Smith

Priscilla Alderson, Institute of Education, University of London Vinnarasan Aruldoss, Sussex University, UK Liepa V. Boberiene, Psychologist Judith Cashmore, Psychologist John M. Davis, University of Edinburgh, UK Robbie Gilligan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Megan Gollop, University of Otago, New Zealand Anne Trine Kjørholt, Norwegian Centre for Child Research (NOSEB) and the Faculty of Social Sciences and Technology Management, NTNU, Norway Jill McLeigh, University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA Gary B. Melton, Kempe Center for Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect, USA Philip Mendes, Monash University, Australia Francisco Pilotti, Policy Advisor Gillian Pugh, Coram, UK Rita Shackel, Sydney Law School, Australia Nicola Taylor, University of Otago, New Zealand Kay Tisdall, University of Edinburgh Weijun Wang, University of Ottawa, Canada Carolyne Willow, CRAE Ekaterina Yazykova, Clemson University, USA

Policies and ethics