1st Edition

Children's Rights to Participate in Out-of-Home Care International Social Work Contexts

Edited By Claudia Equit, Jade Purtell Copyright 2023
214 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

For centuries, residential child and youth care systems worldwide have provided homes for vulnerable children and adolescents. The implementation of children's rights, especially the right of participation, is assessed as an important base for promoting the best interests of the child in an out-of-home care environment. Featuring contributions from distinguished international authors, this... Read more

Introduction: Participation of Children and Young People in Alternative care – Introduction
Claudia Equit and Jade Purtell

Chapter One: Beyond Youth-centeredness in the Residential Care Participation Discourse: Moving from Aesthetics to Everyday Life where Young People Matter
Kiaras Gharabaghi

Chapter Two: Increasing Opportunities for Care Experienced Young People’s Participation in Decision-Making about State Care: Embedding Ethical Approaches in an Australian Context
Jade Purtell, Jenna Bollinger and Beverley Scott

Chapter Three: Professional Practice in Rights-Based Foster Care, and The Child's Right to Participate
Asgeir Falch-Eriksen and Karmen Toros

Chapter Four: Space and Agency in Everyday Lives of Young People in Care in France and England
Hélène Join-Lambert

Chapter Five: Can Children’s Participation be Promoted from the Outside? Insights from Sweden on Public Monitoring of Foster and Residential Care
David Pålsson

Chapter Six: A Reflection on the Collective Participation of Youth in Foster Care in Context: Limits, Barriers, and Opportunities
Rebecca Jackson, Bernadine Brady, Cormac Forkan and Edel Tierney

Chapter Seven: Participation of Young People in Residential Care: Professionals’ Perceptions about Barriers and Facilitators in Portugal
Eunice Magalhães, Micaela Pinheiro and Maria Manuela Calheiros

Chapter Eight: "How we see this": Young People’s View on Participation in Switzerland: Results and Reflections on Preventing Victimization in Residential Care
Stefan Eberitzsch, Samuel Keller and Julia Rohrbach

Chapter Nine: Different Subcultures in Residential Groups in Germany– Implications for Participation and the Victimization of Children and Young People
Claudia Equit
In collaboration with Antonia Finckh and Julia Ganterer

Chapter Ten: Independent Professional Advocacy in Daycare Centres Promoting Young People’s Participation in Italy
Valentina Calcaterra and Maria Luisa Raineri

Conclusion: Challenges and Progress for Participating Young People in Residential Groups and Foster Families
Claudia Equit and Jade Purtell

Biography

Claudia Equit, PhD, is a professor of social pedagogy at the Leuphana university Lueneburg, Germany. She is involved in several research projects in the field of alternative care and children´s rights. She is the founder of the International Network „Participation of looked after children and adolescents in child welfare" associated with EUSARF. She can be reached at [email protected]

Jade Purtell is a multidisciplinary researcher and practitioner focused on out-of-home care and transitions from care experiences and youth participation in policy-making processes. Jade is currently managing the Peer Worker models for transitions from care project at Monash University and undertaking her PhD in care leaver early parenting. She can be reached at [email protected]