Phil Jones - Childrens Rights in Practice

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Childrens Rights in Practice

Edited by Phil Jones and
Gary Walker

and all other materials
Phil Jones and Gary Walker 2011
Phil Jones
Gary Walker
Mike Wragg
Carol Potter and Chris Whittaker
Caroline Bligh
Jon Tan
Avril Brock and Jean Conteh
Diane Lowcock and Ruth Cross
Tracey Race and Alison Bennett
Phil Jones and Alan Smith
Daniel Marshall and Terry Thomas

First published 2011

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With Love to Jonathan Glover
P.J.

To Mum and Dad, who taught me rights from wrong
G.W.

Childrens Rights in Practice is a highly accessible text, which will be useful for students on a range of courses and for professionals where the focus is on working with children and young people. The books strength lies in examining childrens rights from a range of professional perspectives and across a wide age-span. The review activities at the end of each chapter are excellent and encourage the reader to reflect in detail on their practice in the light of some of the ideas introduced the activities will be valuable for students and professionals alike.
Deborah Albon is a Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies at London Metropolitan University

This is a very informative book that gives a realistic and thought-provoking insight into legislation and its interpretation in practice. The importance of the child at the centre of policy design comes through loud and clear, and the writers include examples of children from a broad range of perspectives and countries.
Denise Chadwick, Senior Lecturer in Early Years, University of Huddersfield

Dr Phil Jones, Director of Research and Reader, Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law, Leeds University, has researched areas relating to children and young people, inclusion, the arts and therapy for a number of years. His books have been translated into Chinese, Korean and Greek, and include Rethinking Childhood (2009, Continuum), The Arts Therapies (2005, Routledge) and Drama as Therapy (2008, Routledge); edited books include Childhood: Services and Provision for Children (with Moss, Tomlinson and Welch, 2007, Pearson). He is also Series Editor of Continuums New Childhoods, a research-driven initiative looking at different aspects of childrens lives.

Gary Walker is a Principal Lecturer in Childhood and Early Years at Leeds Metropolitan University. He has worked in a variety of social care settings with and for children and families for over twenty years. This includes day and residential settings, and as a child protection social worker. He has been child protection education coordinator and children in care education coordinator for a large education authority. He has extensive experience of teaching and training adults in social care issues. Specialist interest areas remain child development, child protection and social work, and children in care. Publications include Working Together for Children (2008, Continuum), as well as chapters for edited volumes covering safeguarding and looked-after children.

Alison Bennett joined the Social Work team in the Faculty of Health at Leeds Metropolitan University in 2003. Prior to this, she worked in children and family social work in the statutory and voluntary sector, mainly in Yorkshire. She has responsibility for teaching Children and Family Social Work and has specific interests in participation, child protection and domestic violence.

Caroline was a state registered nurse prior to starting her teaching career at a multilingual school in south-east London. Having taught throughout the key stages in primary schools for several years, she developed an active interest in bilingualism in the early years. Following completion of her Masters in Education (Bilingualism in Education) at the University of Birmingham, she began teaching as an associate lecturer for the Open University on their professional early years courses, and in 2007 started teaching at Leeds Metropolitan University where she is now a Senior Lecturer teaching across Early Childhood and Primary Education. Caroline is in her final year of doctoral study with the Open University, where she is focusing her current research on an ethnographic study into the silent period in a young bilingual learner from a sociocultural perspective. She presented a paper on her research at the Ethnography and Education conference at St Hildas College, University of Oxford, in 2009, and at New College, Oxford, in September 2010.