| Titel : |
Children’s Wellbeing and Children’s Rights in Tension? |
| Documenttype: |
artikel |
| Auteurs: |
Tisdall, E. Kay M., Auteur |
| Uitgegeven: |
Leiden [Netherlands] : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers |
| Publicatiedatum: |
2015 |
| Tijdschrift: |
The International Journal of Children’s Rights, ISSN 0927-5568 Vol. 23 (4)  |
| Paginering : |
769 – 789 |
| Taal : |
Engels (eng) |
| Trefwoorden: |
Beleid:Kinderrechtenbeleid:Algemeen
Gezondheid en welzijn:Algemeen
Kinderrechten (algemeen):Algemeen
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| Samenvatting: |
Het welzijn van kinderen is niet langer een puur academische discussie. Internationaal en in vele landen afzonderlijk is het een belangrijk kader geworden voor beleid en praktijk. In deze bijdrage wordt de relatie tussen de concepten 'kinderrechten' en 'welzijn' kritisch overwogen. Het artikel nodigt uit bredere vragen te stellen over hoe te pleiten voor de rechten van kinderen in de nationale en mondiale context waarin het welzijn van kinderen steeds meer aandacht krijgt, gevoed door oproepen tot evidence-based beleid en verantwoording via uitkomsten. |
| Summary: |
Children’s wellbeing has moved from an academic field of interest to a policy and practice framework, internationally and in many countries. Children’s wellbeing tends to be twinned casually with children’s rights but recent Scottish legislation – the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 – has put children’s rights and children’s wellbeing in tension. This provides an opportunity to consider the concepts critically. The article scrutinises parliamentary debates and accompanying submissions, to reveal that children’s rights arguments failed due to political concerns about litigation and a lack of evidence that children’s rights improved children’s lives. Children’s wellbeing arguments were more successful, as children’s wellbeing continues the familiar trajectory of a needs-based approach. It has additional benefits of maximising outcomes, emphasising early intervention and prevention, and statistical development. It also risks being apolitical and professionally-driven, with no minimum standards and limited recourse for children’s and their families’ rights and complaints. These findings raise broader questions about how to argue for children’s rights in national and global contexts where children’s wellbeing has ever-increasing prominence, fuelled by calls for evidence-based policy and accountability via outcomes. |
| Link naar een elektronische bron: |
http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15718182-023040 [...] |
| Vaste link: |
http://www.kekidatabank.be/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=3010 |
Children’s Wellbeing and Children’s Rights in Tension?
