Young Children’s Rights: Exploring beliefs, attitudes, principles and practice

Do young children have rights? Should they have them? This book examines how rights affect the lives of young children and adults and the relationship between them.

Published
January 2000
Price
£14.99
ISBN
9781843105992

This publication can be ordered from our distributor, NBN International.

Published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers in association with Save the Children

This book will be of interest to policy-makers and practitioners, and anyone who is interested in consulting with young children.

It will be relevant to professionals working in play, education, health and social services, other local government services and voluntary organisations, to students and academics, and to parents who wish to explore their relationships with their own children.

It reviews the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, focusing on babies and young children.

Chapters cover the following topics:

  • young children as people
  • beliefs and feelings about consulting young children
  • methods of involving young children
  • consulting young children through work and play
  • risk control, conflict and violence
  • key messages from the evidence and experience.

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