scholarly journals Evaluation of a national reform in the Israeli child protection practice designed to improve children's participation in decision-making

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 54-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ravit Alfandari
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Participation In Decision Making ◽  
Children's Participation ◽  
Israeli Child

Children’s Participation in Decision Making From Child Welfare Workers’ Perspectives: A Systematic Review

2021 ◽  
pp. 104973152098484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karmen Toros
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Child Welfare Workers ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Participation In Decision Making ◽  
Children's Participation ◽  
Meta Analyses ◽  
Welfare Workers

This article explores child welfare workers’ experiences of children’s participation in decision making in the child protection system. The systematic review follows the principles of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses statement and includes 12 peer-reviewed articles published in academic journals from 2009 to 2019. Findings indicate that children’s participation in decision making is generally limited or nonexistent. The age of the child is an important determining factor concerning whether the child is given the opportunity to participate in decision making. Potential harm for children that may result from participation is considered when deciding on whether to include a child in the decision-making process.

scholarly journals Participation of Children in Decision-making and their Psychosocial Wellbeing within the Child Protection System in St. Petersburg, Russia

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 643-656
Author(s):  
Вероника Александровна Одинокова ◽  
Майя Михайловна Русакова
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Limited Participation ◽  
Psychosocial Wellbeing ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Children’S Homes ◽  
Participation In Decision Making ◽  
Children's Participation

The child’s right to be heard is a cornerstone of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Children growing up outside of their natural families particularly often find themselves in situations where this right should be fulfilled. In Russia, the child’s participation in decision-making at the time of their separation from their parents, and during their stay in the children’s homes, is often overlooked by both static monitoring and academic studies. In our study we raise the following research questions: To what extent is the right of a child separated from his or her natural parents to participate in decision-making respected? How does involvement in decision-making impact their psychosocial wellbeing? The study covered 215 children aged between ten and seventeen (mean age fourteen years) living in children’s homes in St. Petersburg. Our findings show that 42 % of children believe that they were not heard when the decisions affecting their interests were made. Talking with a social counsellor and having a trusted adult in the children’s home add to children’s perceptions that they have been heard. Limited participation in decision-making increases the odds of psychosocial difficulties in the binary logistic regression. We conclude that limited participation in decision-making negatively impacts the effectiveness of work with children and their psychosocial well-being. Since the degree and effectiveness of children’s participation depends primarily on the attitudes of professionals and their ability to create trusting relationships with children, a further increase in children’s participation will require a change in the professional paradigm of specialists. Specific methods for increasing the participation of children should be introduced in the daily practice of child welfare workers.

The Voice of the Child in Child Protection Decision-Making

2020 ◽  
pp. 263-280
Author(s):  
Susanne Witte ◽  
Mónica López López ◽  
Helen Baldwin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Child Maltreatment ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Participation In Decision Making ◽  
Children's Participation ◽  
The Right

Children’s participation in all matters that concern them, particularly child protection decision-making, have many positive effects on children. It is also their right granted by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. However, in child protection practice there are many obstacles to including children in decision-making processes. First, the article reviews the policy and public discourse in England, Germany, and the Netherlands regarding children’s participation in investigations into suspected child maltreatment. Second, an analysis of 1,207 case files of investigations into suspected child maltreatment unfolds the extent of children’s participation and factors associated with participation within the three countries. Although all three countries grant the right to participate in decision-making to children, documented participation in child protection decision-making is very low even when older children are considered. Children’s participation in decision-making is closely linked to caretakers’ participation in decision-making. Thus, children are almost never included in decision-making when their caretaker is not. Children’s participation is associated with a higher likelihood for individual support for children in the Netherlands and Germany. The results point to the need for research on barriers of children’s participation as well as the need to provide more resources for case workers to be able to facilitate children’s participation.

scholarly journals SOCIAL AND LEGAL DISCOURSE OF CHILDREN’S PARTICIPATION IN DECISION-MAKING IN POLAND AND RUSSIA: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-70
Author(s):  
KRYSTYNA HELAND-KURZAK ◽  
ALEXANDRA FILIPOVA
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Search Process ◽  
The Core ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Participation In Decision Making ◽  
Legal Policies ◽  
Children's Participation ◽  
The Right

This article draws attention to online discourse of children’s participation in decision-making. The participation of children is located in one of the core principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). This study examines the right of the child to express his/her opinion and the participation of the child in matters affecting his/her interests. This paper aims to compare Poland and Russia results in the search process in the Google global search engine, level from 2004 to 2019 using Google Trends. We discover that there are connecting discourses among legal policies in Poland and Russia. There are also differences between clusters of arguments about existence of children’s rights in practice. ice.

METHODOLOGICAL SPECIFICITY OF STUDYING THE PHENOMENON OF CHILDREN’S PARTICIPATION IN DECISION- MAKING IN FOREIGN STUDIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-63
Author(s):  
E.M Skrypnikova ◽  
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T.A. Romm ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Participation In Decision Making ◽  
Children's Participation

The purpose of this article is to present relevant methodological tools for studying the phenomenon of children's participation in decision-making based on the analysis of this process in foreign studies. The paper demonstrates a comparative analysis of the data obtained from foreign studies ,relying on the ideas of pedagogical methodology,. The authors have singled out approaches to considering the participation of children in decision-making, characterized the methods of organizing research, and presented the methodological specificity of studying participation.

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