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

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 volume offers an in-depth understanding of crucial participation processes and underlying power structures when involving young people in decision-making about their care and everyday life in different out-of-home care institutions. Contributions cover a broad spectrum of current research findings concerning the participation of young people in foster families and residential living groups in Australia, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland as well as cross-nationals perspective on children and young peoples participation in foster and residential care placements in Great Britain and France.

The volume fills major gaps concerning the participation of young people in different out-of-home care and policy settings and will be required reading for policymakers, researchers, practitioners, scholars, and students interested in increasing opportunities for young peoples participation and creating better out-of-home care settings for vulnerable young people.

0.Participation of Children and Young People in Alternative care  Introduction.  1.Beyond Youth-centeredness in the Residential Care Participation Discourse: Moving from Aesthetics to Everyday Life where Young People Matter.  2.Increasing Opportunities for Care Experienced Young Peoples Participation in Decision-Making about State Care: Embedding Ethical Approaches in an Australian Context.  3.Professional Practice in Rights-Based Foster Care, and The Child's Right to Participate.  4.Space and ls*