Human Rights in Child Protection

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Child Protection and Human Rights: A Call for Professional Practice and Policy

   • Asgeir Falch-Eriksen, Elisabeth Backe-Hansen

   Pages 1-14Open Access

3. Children’s Right to Protection Under the CRC

   • Kirsten Sandberg

   Pages 15-38Open Access

4. Rights and Professional Practice: How to Understand Their Interconnection

   • Asgeir Falch-Eriksen

   Pages 39-58Open Access

5. The Child’s Best Interest Principle across Child Protection Jurisdictions

   • Marit Skivenes, Line Marie Sørsdal

   Pages 59-88Open Access

6. Re-designing Organizations to Facilitate Rights-Based Practice in Child Protection

   • Eileen Munro, Andrew Turnell

   Pages 89-110Open Access

7. Experts by Experience Infusing Professional Practices in Child Protection

   • Tarja Pösö

   Pages 111-128Open Access

8. The Rights of Children Placed in Out-of-Home Care

   • Anne-Dorthe Hestbæk

   Pages 129-146Open Access

9. Emergency Placements: Human Rights Limits and Lessons

   • Elisabeth Gording-Stang

   Pages 147-165Open Access

10. Rights-Based Practice and Marginalized Children in Child Protection Work

    • Bente Heggem Kojan, Graham Clifford

    Pages 167-183Open Access

11. In-home Services: A Rights-Based Professional Practice Meets Children’s and Families’ Needs

    • Øivin Christiansen, Ragnhild Hollekim

    Pages 185-208Open Access

12. Embodied Care Practices and the Realization of the Best Interests of the Child in Residential Institutions for Young Children

    • Cecilie Basberg Neumann

    Pages 209-226Open Access

13. Formal and Everyday Participation in Foster Families: A Challenge?

    • Elisabeth Backe-Hansen

    Pages 227-244Open Access

14. Conclusion: Towards Rights-Based Child Protection Work

    • Elisabeth Backe-Hansen, Asgeir Falch-Eriksen

    Pages 245-253Open Access

15. Back Matter

    Pages 255-258

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This open access book critically explores what child protection policy and professional practice would mean if practice was grounded in human rights standards. This book inspires a new direction in child protection research – one that critically assesses child protection policy and professional practice with regard to human rights in general, and the rights of the child in particular. Each chapter author seeks to approach the rights of the child from their own academic field of interest and through a comparative lens, making the research relevant across nation-state practices.

The book is split into five parts to focus on the most important aspects of child protection. The first part explains the origins, aim, and scope of the book; the second part explores aspects of professionalism and organization through law and policy; and the third part discusses several key issues in child protection and professional practice in depth. The fourth part discusses selected areas of importance to child protection practices (low-impact in-house measures, public care in residential care and foster care respectively) and the fifth part provides an analytical summary of the book. Overall, it contributes to the present need for a more comprehensive academic debate regarding the rights of the child, and the supranational perspective this brings to child protection policy and practice across and within nation-states. 

• social policy
• child welfare
• child abuse
• child neglect
• human rights law
• child protection
• education
• foster care
• residential care
• family group conference
• Open Access

• Norwegian Social Research, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway

  Asgeir Falch-Eriksen, Elisabeth Backe-Hansen

Asgeir Falch-Eriksen is Associate Professor focussing on child protection at Norwegian Social Research, Oslo University College. He has worked in central government in Norway with policy-implementation, regulation and development with regard to professionalism in child protection, organizational design, and education. He has also written a book on trust in child protection.