Human Rights in Child Protection

Asgeir Falch-Eriksen is Associate Professor focussing on child protection at Norwegian Social Research, Oslo University College. He has worked in central government in Norway with policy-implementation, regulation and development with regard to professionalism in child protection, organizational design, and education. He has also written a book on trust in child protection.Elisabeth Backe-Hansen worked at Norwegian Social Research, Oslo University College, as a full-time researcher within the field of child protection and research on children and young people from 1988-2016. She has a background in psychology, focussed on decision-making in child welfare, in particular concerning out-of-home placement of small children. She worked as a practitioner within child protection for many years before becoming a full-time researcher.

• Chapter 1. Child Protection and Human Rights: A Call for Professional Practice and Policy; Asgeir Falch-Eriksen and Elisabeth Backe-Hansen.- Chapter 2. Children´s right to protection under the CRC; Kirsten Sandberg.- Chapter 3. Rights and professional practice. How to understand their interconnection; Asgeir Falch-Eriksen.- Chapter 4. The child’s best interest principle across child protection jurisdictions; Marit Skivenes and Line Marie Sørsdal.- Chapter 5. Re-designing organisations to facilitate rights-based practice in child protection; Eileen Munro and Andrew Turnell.- Chapter 6. Experts by Experience Infusing Professional Practices in Child Protection; Tarja Pösö.- Chapter 7. The Rights of Children Placed in Out-of-home Care; Anne-Dorthe Hestbæk.- Chapter 8. Emergency Placements – human rights limits and lessons; Elisabeth Gording-Stang.- Chapter 9. Rights-based practice and marginalised children in child protection work; Bente Kojan and Graham Clifford.- Chapter 10. In-home services: A rights-based professional practice meets children’s and families’ needs; Øivin Christiansen and Ragnhild Hollekim.- Chapter 11. Embodied care practices and the realisation of the best interests of the child in residential institutions for young children; Cecilie Baasberg Neumann.- Chapter 12. Formal participation rights meeting everyday participation in foster care – a challenge?; Elisabeth Backe-Hansen.- Conclusion. Towards rights-based child protection work; Elisabeth Backe-Hansen and Asgeir Falch-Eriksen.