The new handbook of children's rights : comparative policy and practice / / edited by Bob Franklin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910170967803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2002
• ISBN: 1-134-57690-0; 1-134-57691-9; 0-429-23102-4; 0-203-40596-X; 1-280-33640-4
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (448 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): FranklinBob <1949->
• Disciplina: 323.3/52
• Soggetti: Children - Legal status, laws, etc - Great Britain
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Rev. ed. of: The handbook of children's rights. 1995.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Children's rights: an introduction; Children's rights: an overview; Children's rights and media wrongs: changing representations of children and the developing rights agenda; Children's rights: the changing legal framework; Schooling, education and children's rights; The Children Act 1989 and children's rights: a critical reassessment; Children's rights and youth justice; Children's rights ten years after ratification; The Human Rights Act 1998: human rights for children too; Children's rights: cases for action; Medicalising children's behaviourYoung children's health care rights and consent; Children's rights to public space: environment and curfews; Children's rights to sex and sexuality education; Rights and disabled children; Children who care: rights and wrongs in debate and policy on young carers; Human rights and refugee children in the UK; Children's rights: listening to children and young people's voices; Minor rights and major concerns: the views of young people in care; Children's Express: a voice for young people in an adult world; Involving young people in research; Children's Rights Commissioners for the UKCitizenship education: who pays the piper?; Making it happen young children's rights in action: ; the work of Save the Children's Centre for Young Children's Rights; Children's rights: comparative perspectives; Childhood and children's rights in China; The state of children's rights in Australia; A Commissioner for Children's Rights in the Flemish community in Belgium; Global progress towards giving up the habit of hitting children; Outside childhood: street children's rights; The Ombudsman for children: conception and developments; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The expanded and completely revised new edition of this well established handbook provides up-to-date information on a topic of increasing importance across a range of disciplines and practices.