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Description
This project will promote future and current child protection workers’ access to knowledge, and the continued effort to professionalise the workforce and their duty to enforce the rights of the child. Studies indicate that assessment practices in Estonia and Norway are done for the child rather than with the child, which is in breach of the Convention on the Rights of the Child Art. 12.2, which stipulates that children are legally entitled to be heard during child protection casework. In order to increase competence and support the professional growth, an e-book will be published and short-term courses held for the educators to address best practices and methods to effectively engage children in the participation process. Therefore, the main objective of the book is to explain and discuss children’s right to express themselves during decision-making and assessment process in child protection services. The aim of the book is to be instructive to the workforce, ensuring a deeper impact on the field of practice, and consequently how children and their families are treated by the services.
Summary of project results
This project aim was to promote current and future child protective workers’ access to knowledge, and the continued effort to professionalise the workforce and their duty to enforce the rights of the child. Children’s participation has received a great deal of attention within policy and practise internationally throughout the last decades, nevertheless, research indicates that assessment practices in Child Protective Services (CPS) are done for the child rather than with the child.
The objective of the project was to promote future and current child protective workers’ access to knowledge, and the continued effort to professionalise the workforce and their duty to enforce the rights of the child in the form of an open access e-book in English by the Routledge publisher, which was translated into Estonian and Norwegian languages: Professional Practice in Child Protection and the Child’s Right to Participate (2022), Lastekaitsetöö ja lapse osalusõigus (2022) and Å uttrykke seg i barnevernet: Profesjonell praksis og barnets rett (2023)
Project’s intellectual output was the form of three books: (i) In English: Professional Practice in Child Protection and the Child’s Right to Participate (2022) (ii) In Estonian: Lastekaitsetöö ja lapse osalusõigus (2022) (iii) In Norwegian: Å uttrykke seg i barnevernet: Profesjonell praksis og barnets rett (2023). This 8-chapter book is a matter of contributing to rectifying a great shortcoming to professional practice in child protection services and explains and discusses how a child’s right to freedom of expression is upheld through practice and decision-making in CPS. Using the right to expression as stipulated in Article 12.2 of the CRC as a point of departure, it explains what CPS practices should look like and how they must operate to uphold and enforce the rights of the child by providing “the opportunity to be heard” in any administrative. The impact is to the child protective workers’ to enhance their knowledge on the rights of the child. In terms of collaboration of project partners, the collaboration has evolved further to several joint activities.
Summary of bilateral results
In terms of collaboration of project partners, the collaboration has evolved further to several joint activities.