The Handbook of Children's Rights: Comparative Policy and Practice

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Preface Part 1: Children's Rights An Overview 1. The case for children's rights a progress report Bob Franklin Reader of Journalism, University of Sheffield Part 2: Children's Rights The Changing Legal Framework 2. Children's educational rights in a new ERA? Tony Jeffs Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Northumbria 3. Children's rights and the Children Act 1989 Christina Lyon Professor of Law, University of Liverpool, and Nigel Parton Professor of Child Care, Huddersfield University 4. The Criminal Justice Acts justice by geography Barry Anderson Head of the Youth Crime Section, National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NACRO) 5. Children's rights in a land of rites Michael Freeman Professor of Law, University College London Part 3: Children's Rights Policy Prescription and Implementation In The British Setting 6. Children's rights officers righting wrongs and promoting rights Shane Ellis Leeds Children's Rights Officer, Save The Children Fund, and Annie Franklin Principal Officer, Save The Children Fund 7. A Minister for Children Joan Lester M.P. Labour M.P. for Eccles and Labour Party Shadow Minister for Children 8. The Children's Rights Development Unit Gerison Lansdown Director of the Children's Rights Development Unit 9. The rights and wrongs of children who care Jo Aldridge Research Associate, Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University 10. Children's rights in their early years from plaiting fog to knitting treacle Gillian Alexander Head of Kirklees Early Years Service (KEYS) 11. Rights for children who are disabled Margaret Kennedy National Co-ordinator of the 'Keep Deaf Children Safe' Child Abuse Project Part 4. Children's Rights Comparative Perspectives 12. Children's rights an American perspective Cynthia Price Cohen Director of Child Rights International Research Institute 13. The Scandinavian experience of children's rights Malfrid Grude Flekkoy Cliniical Psychologist, formerly Norwegian Ombudsman for Children 14. Children's rights in Australia Moira Rayner Barrister, Chairperson of the Board of the National Children's and Youth Law Centre, formerly Victorian Commissioner for Equal Opportunities 15. Outside Childhood: street children's rights Judith Ennew Co-founder Streetwise Internation 16. Respecting children's right to physical integrity Peter Newell Director of EPOCH 17. Russian Children's rights Judith Harwin Lecturer in Department of Social Administration, London School of Economics