Listening and responding? Children's participation in health care within England

This article examines recent health policy developments in England in relation to children's rights under Article 12 and 13 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). It draws on practice and research literature to explore evidence regarding: children's participation both within decisions about their own care and concerning the development of health services, their access to mechanisms that allow them a voice, the provision of and need for accessible information, and factors which prevent or facilitate children's participation. The paper does not explore in detail issues concerning children's consent or competence to participate

Realising young children's rights: Researching conversations with rights respecting early childhood leaders

Children in the UK have been rights bearing citizens since ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC, 1991). Between 1996-2017 the Department of Education, published 5 iterations of a curriculum for children younger than statutory school age. Since 2006 compliance, of settings, with Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) has been mandatory. National, and international, reports record low levels of well-being and increasing levels of mental distress amongst children in the UK. Since publication of UNCRC a range of research practices which respect young children’s agency have been developed. These, divergent, trajectories rest on competing discourses; children as agents, children as performers. This professional study intertwines understanding rights respecting identities with the case for realising young children’s rights in early years settings. A catalyst for the research conversations was the author’s experience of rights disrespecting behaviours whilst a pupil, teacher and lecturer. Alongside the substantive foci the study responds to two questions; an entreaty from Goodson and Ball (1981), to integrate, ‘the biographical with the situational‘ when researching teachers’ lives and Mannion’s query from 2007 what, exactly, is it that childhood researchers are supposed to do in their empirical studies? The response of this study has been to fashion research conversations focused on the development and enactment of early years leaders’ rights respecting praxes.Set within an interpretative conceptual framework refining a respectful, responsive methodology was imperative. Following a practise interview research conversations provided an opportunity to two early years leaders to share formative experiences from their educational biographies to which they attribute the development of rights respecting values. Analysis of the conversations was undertaken using a bespoke, inductive process denoted by a metaphor of Egyptian rope-making. The rich, joint meaning making which characterised the conversations supported the value of integrating the biographical with the situational and indicated purposeful directions for supporting training, and qualified, early years educators in realising young children’s rights

Children's bodies: the battleground for their rights?

The UNCRC has changed profoundly ideas about adult/child relationships and there is now an acknowledgment in both law and policy that children have a right to be consulted and to participate in decisions made about their lives. This has been widely discussed and critiqued and one of the most significant battlegrounds for debate has been children’s rights to consent or refuse medical treatment and the issue of exactly who has the right to control children’s bodies. This article will compare several cases where the English and Scottish courts have made various decisions and rulings about the extent to which children do have rights to control their bodies. It will question why, twenty years after the UK ratified the UNCRC, children are still considered incompetent in matters concerning their own bodies, unless proved otherwise, while adults are automatically considered competent unless shown not to be and will analyse whether this situation is compatible with a children’s rights agenda

Children's rights in football: Welfare and work

This paper examines issues of labour and play in children's football. It asks whether global capitalism and the growth of girls' and women's football might lead to greater sexual victimization among female players

Child labor, education, and children's rights

Child labor is widespread, and bad for development, both that of the individual child, and of the society and economy in which she, or he lives. If allowed to persist to the current extent,child labor will prevent the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals of halving poverty, and achieving Education for All. Nearly all of the world's governments have ratified international human rights conventions, which call for the elimination of child labor, and the provision of universal primary education. Fulfilling these commitments is of critical importance for development. This paper reviews the international legal framework relating to child labor, and access to education, and, provides a statistical portrait of child labor and education participation. It looks at why children work from the perspective of household decision-making. Various policy options are considered, including those which improve the incentives to education relative to labor, remove constraints to schooling, and increase education participation through legislation. Conclusions are drawn in the final section.Children and Youth,Child Labor,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Street Children,Youth and Governance

The Right to Play

This issue of Early Childhood in Focus is published to coincide with the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child's General Comment No. 17 which aims to strengthen implementation of children's right to rest, leisure, play and recreational activities (as set out in UNCRC, 1989, Article 31). 'The Right to Play' offers short summaries of theory, research and policy issues that can inform the implementation of Article 31. Section 1 is about the concept of play, the ways culture defines play in children's lives, the role of play within early childhood pedagogy and children's own views on play. Section 2 looks more closely at the function of play in supporting children's development, including social, emotional and cognitive benefits. Section 3 is about the opportunities and challenges for realizing children's right to play, including the pressures of early schooling as well as child work, and the implications of commercialization and the growing place of new technologies in young children's lives

Legal Protection Principle of the Fulfillment of Children's Maintenance Rights After Divorce

Legal problem of children's maintenance rights was caused by the absence of legal effort towards the party who didn't perform the decision of children's alimony in the Religious Court Law. In the absence of coercive measures to carry out the decision, it could be said as the vague norms or obscure norms or vage normen. This article discussed the legal problems related to the urgency of legal protection to the fulfillment of children's maintenance rights after divorce and the formulation of the fulfillment of children's maintenance rights after divorce. This study is a legal normative research using statute approach, conceptual approach, comparative approach, and philosophical approach. The result showed that parents who ignored children's maintenance rights could be categorized to violate the law and should be held accountable for fulfilling children's rights as legal rights to obtain maintenance rights. In order to implement the fulfillment of children's support in Indonesia, KPAI (Indonesian Children Protection Commission) should be given active and coercive authorities and responsibilities for children's maintenance rights so it can be in accordance with the principle of Convention on the Rights of Child that both parents have common responsibilities for the upbringing and development of the child. Keywords: Legal Protection, Children's Maintenance Rights, Rights of Child, Development of the child DOI: 10.7176/JLPG/127-02 Publication date: December 31st 202