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Children's Rights in Social Work Practice: Theory, Protection, Participation, and Provision

Children's Rights in Social Work Practice: Theory, Protection, Participation, and Provision

Author: Paul McCafferty; Esther Mercado: Hayes Davy García; Gerry Marshall
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032949253
Published In: July 2025
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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This book provides a thorough examination of children's rights, focusing on key themes and objectives that contribute to their understanding, implementation, and advocacy.

Written by academics both in the UK and internationally, and with each chapter containing two illustrative case-studies, this volume will increase awareness and knowledge among social workers, enhancing professional practice whilst fostering empowerment and addressing systemic issues. Chapters are divided into four main themes: understanding theory that promotes children's rights, protection from harm, participation, and provision of services. Each section delves into the fundamental concept of children's rights, including the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and highlights the role of social workers in actively promoting and protecting these rights. In doing so, this collection emphasizes the importance of safeguarding children, identifying and responding to abuse, neglect, and exploitation, as well as problematizing the balancing act of realizing children’s rights in the modern context of child welfare.

By providing practical strategies and techniques for promoting and protecting children’s rights, this book serves as a concise and informative resource for practitioners, students and academics working in the field of social work, as well as scholars of child protection, safeguarding, and social policy more broadly.

List of tables

List of boxes

About the editors

List of contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Introduction

Paul McCafferty

Section I: Critical Social Theory Regarding Children’s Rights in Social Work

Chapter 1: Children’s Participation in Child Protection Decision-Making: A Framework Based on Honneth’s Recognition Theory

Paul McCafferty

Chapter 2: Bourdieu’s Application to Children’s Rights in Social Work with Children and Young People: Common Sense, Clarity, and a Feel for the Game

Jo Dillon

Chapter 3: Empowering Agency: The Role of Childhood Sociology in Child Welfare and Protection Systems

Paul McCafferty

Section II: Children’s Rights to Protection from Harm

Chapter 4: Protecting Children by Supporting Families

Davy Hayes

Chapter 5: Balancing Protective Legislation and Children’s Rights

Ravit Alfandari and Shiran Reichenberg

Chapter 6: Adoption with Children’s Rights at the Centre: Safeguarding Children’s Welfare, Identity, and Family Relationships

Mandi MacDonald and Simone McCaughren

Section III: Children’s Rights to Participate in Social Work Decisions About Their Lives

Chapter 7: Navigating the Quandary of Article 12: A Comprehensive Review of Children’s Participation in Child Welfare Agencies

Esther Mercado García and Paul McCafferty

Chapter 8: Facilitating and Responding to Children’s Participation in Social Work Decision-Making Processes

Kristina Edman and Paul McCafferty

Chapter 9: In Their Own Words: Adolescent Participation in Group Social Intervention Programs in Madrid

Linda Ducca Cisneros and Andrés Arias Astray

Section IV: Children’s Rights to the Provision of Services in Social Work

Chapter 10: Rights, Recognition, and Residential Childcare: An Exploration of Identity Formation Using Honneth’s Recognition Theory

Gerry Marshall and Paul McCafferty

Chapter 11: Upholding Children’s Rights to Services in the Face of Structural Inequality: Social Work, Poverty, and Global Declarations

Mary McColgan and Paul McCafferty

Chapter 12: Keeping the Promise: Workforce Retention as a Children’s Rights Obligation

Liz Tanner, Paul McCafferty, and Davy Hayes

Conclusion: A Call to Conscience—Reclaiming Children’s Rights in Social Work

Paul McCafferty

Index

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