Irrespective of type of placement, contact with the birth family is one of the more contentious
issues in decision-making for children in care. Despite widespread belief that contact with …

Foster care is a sensitive topic that requires representation of the best interests of children
and families. The perspectives of foster children and foster families are under-researched …

Since the late 1980s there has been an increasing interest in listening to children's
experiences and viewpoints, as separate to, and different from adults. Changes reflect an …

Conceptualising Child-Adult Relations focuses on how children conceptualise and
experience child-adult relations. The authors explore the idea of generation as a key to …

The authors draw on their own experiences and those of practitioners, service users and
carers to understand issues of power and oppression, demonstrating how the law can be …

This study of children's participation in decisions about their care draws on recent work in
sociology and anthropology, psychology and legal philosophy in order to understand this …

The aim of this paper is to investigate children's views and experiences of democracy and
pupil participation in relation to everyday school life, and to let their voices be heard on …

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 is one of the most highly
ratified human rights treaties in the world, with 192 states currently signed up to it. Article …

Connecting Children focuses on children's understandings of care and their views of
different family lives. It portrays the lives of children aged 11-12 and shows how families …

Since the late 1990s, the term 'partnership'has increasingly been inserted into the literature
and rhetoric of the UK health-care system. In this paper, the assumptions and implications …