From procedural child rights education to a relational child rights-based practice model

Collins, Tara and Gharabaghi, Kiaras and Caruana, Sheldon and Cherry, Shannon and Marcano-Henry, Richard (2021) From procedural child rights education to a relational child rights-based practice model. Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 20 (1). ISSN 2976-9353

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Abstract

Children's rights are often operationalised in administrative and procedural ways, particularly in child welfare and residential services contexts. In this article, a group of five authors representing academics and alumni from Ryerson University's Child & Youth Care programme who are also people from care present a dialogue process surrounding lived experiences of rights education processes while in care. The dialogue is complemented with a review of child rights education material used by child welfare agencies in Ontario, Canada as tools to explain rights to children and youth admitted into care. We conclude that a child rights-based practice model is necessary in which rights and daily life are fully integrated.

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