Enhancing Children's Rights: Connecting Research, Policy and Practice

1. Introduction: Rights, Research and Policy; Anne Smith PART I: THE BODY 2. Reforms to Healthcare Systems and Policies: Influences from Children's Rights; Priscilla Alderson 3. Changing the Law on Physical Punishment in New Zealand; Anne Smith 4. The Child's Right to Play: Laying the Building Blocks for Optimal Health & Well-Being; Rita Shackel PART II: EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION 5. Early Childhood Services in England: Policy, Research and Practice; Gillian Pugh 6: Early Childhood Education in New Zealand: Progress and Challenges in Achieving Children's Rights; Anne Smith 7: Children's Rights and Early Years Provision in India; Vinnarasan Aruldoss and John Davis PART III: CHILD PROTECTION 8. Child Protection: Policies for Vulnerable Children in New Zealand; Anne Smith 9. Children In Care: Global Perspectives On The Challenges Of Securing Their Wellbeing And Rights; Robbie Gilligan 10. Children and Young People Leaving Care; Judy Cashmore and Philip Mendes 11. Family and Care Policies for Children in the Former Soviet Union: What is Changing in Russia and Lithuania?; Ekaterina Yazykova and Liepa Boberine 12. Child Rights and Wellbeing in Latin America: A Role for Conditional Cash Transfers; Jill McLeigh and Francisco Pilotti, PART IV: PARTICIPATION, POLITICS AND THE LAW 13. Taking Account of Children: How far Have We Come in England?; Carolyne Willow 14. Young People as Leaders in (and Sometimes Victims of) Political and Cultural Change; Gary Melton and Weijun Wang 15. Children's Rights and Wellbeing: Tensions within the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014; Kay Tisdall and John Davis 16. 'Vi ere en nasjon vi med?' 'We are a nation, we' Children's rights in Norway: Research, Policies and Practices; Anne Trine Kjørholt 17. Children's Views and Participation in Family Dispute Resolution in New Zealand; Nicola Taylor and Megan Gollop 18. Conclusion: Challenges for Research on Children's Rights; Anne Smith