Enhancing Children's Rights: Connecting Research, Policy and Practice [Hardcover]

This volume explores how children's rights has influenced research with children and how research can in turn shape policies and practices to enhance children's rights. The book examines the impact children's rights and Childhood Studies has had on how children are constructed and regulated internationally.1. Introduction: Rights, Research and Policy; Anne Smith PART I: THE BODY 2. Reforms to Healthcare Systems and Policies: Influences from Children's Rights; Priscilla Alderson 3. Changing the Law on Physical Punishment in New Zealand; Anne Smith 4. The Child's Right to Play: Laying the Building Blocks for Optimal Health & Well-Being; Rita Shackel PART II: EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION 5. Early Childhood Services in England: Policy, Research and Practice; Gillian Pugh 6: Early Childhood Education in New Zealand: Progress and Challenges in Achieving Children's Rights; Anne Smith 7: Children's Rights and Early Years Provision in India; Vinnarasan Aruldoss and John Davis PART III: CHILD PROTECTION 8. Child Protection: Policies for Vulnerable Children in New Zealand; Anne Smith 9. Children In Care: Global Perspectives On The Challenges Of Securing Their Wellbeing And Rights; Robbie Gilligan 10. Children and Young People Leaving Care; Judy Cashmore and Philip Mendes 11. Family and Care Policies for Children in the Former Soviet Union: What is Changing in Russia and Lithuania?; Ekaterina Yazykova and Liepa Boberine 12. Child Rights and Wellbeing in Latin America: A Role for Conditional Cash Transfers; Jill McLeigh and Francisco Pilotti, PART IV: PARTICIPATION, POLITICS AND THE LAW 13. Taking Account of Children: How far Have We Come in England?; Carolyne Willow 14. Young People as Leaders in (and Sometimes Victims of) Political and Cultural Change; Gary Melton and Weijun Wang 15. Children's Rights and Wellbeing: Tensions within the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014; Kay Tisdall and John Davis 16. 'Vi ere en nasjon vi med?' 'We are a nation, we' Children's righló¾