Children’s Participation in Child Welfare Decision Making: Recognising Dichotomies, Conceptualising Critically Informed Solutions.

McCafferty, Paul

doi:10.1080/13575279.2021.1896990

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“…They also align neatly with neoliberal ideals of individual rights and responsibilites. McCafferty points out that the traditional liberal theory of rights creates problems for all children who fall foul of its assumptions of "independent, rational individuals capable of making choices" (McCafferty, 2021(McCafferty, , p.2135, and this dissonance underpins some of the difficulties social workers have with encouraging participation, even if that is their intention (Bessell, 2011, McCafferty, 2021.…”

Section: Participation Individualism and Cultural Capitalmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Capital, to Bourdieu, equates to the kinds of resources needed to operate in different cultural contexts and achieve recognition within them. Without recognition of children and all they carry in terms of their webs of relationships, the deeper forms of recognition needed to enable participation may be absent (Smith et al, 2017;McCafferty, 2021). While Bourdieu has been critiqued within child protection discourse as being too deterministic and not focused enough on agency, nevertheless it provides a helpful way to consider how conflicting social norms and power affect every level of children's participationtheir expressed views, how they are elicited and how they are interpreted (Houston, 2009).…”

Section: Participation Individualism and Cultural Capitalmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This context of inequities and cultural capital intersects with the existing issues with children's participation, expressed in the literature in multiple jurisdictions, described more fully above. Generally, research shows that a focus on protection, children's vulnerability, children's perceived lack of competence and the pre-eminence of the 'best interest' principle can weaken their participation, reducing their access to this right and leading to tokenistic attempts at participation (Heimer et al, 2018;Kosher & Ben-Arieh, 2020;McCafferty, 2021;Toros, 2021). Reflecting on all this leads to proposing a re-construction of the child as an embedded person, rather than a brute individual, one whose rights to participation in child protection contexts are intensely shaped by the political, social, and cultural contexts they come from and are exposed to within CPSS.…”

Section: Participation Individualism and Cultural Capitalmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Recognising the Embedded Child: Children’s Participation, Child Protection Inequities and Cultural Capital in Child Protection

Keddell¹

2022

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Children’s right to participation in child protection decision-making is supported by moral imperatives and international conventions. The fragmented implementation of this right reflects an already-conflicted discursive terrain that attempts to incorporate both children’s agency and their need for protection. This article uses two key theoretical lenses to further examine this terrain: child welfare inequalities and cultural capital. These theories draw attention to how social inequities and cultural capital relating to culture and class affect how participation plays out. An unintended consequence of constructing children within a traditional liberal account of rights, within neoliberal and ‘child focussed’ policy paradigms, is the reduction of an acknowledgment of the culturally contested nature of an individualistic construction of children, excising children from their social backgrounds and promoting the notion of a ‘universal child’. With a particular focus on class, culture and professional paradigms, I argue that the ways children’s views are elicited, the content of those views and how they are interpreted, become subject to a set of professional assumptions that tend to take little cognisance of the social backround of children, including norms relating to class, ethinicity and the oppressive structural relations relating to those two factors. This process is shored up with concepts such as attachment theory, the ‘adultification’ of children of colour, the diminishing of Indigenous concepts of children and childhood, and the pre-eminence of the ‘concerted cultivation’ middle class parenting style. The child’s cultural worldview and manner of expressing it may clash with professional cultures that emphasise an ability for verbal expression, independence, and entitlement when negotiating preferences with representatives of powerful social institutions such as child protection systems. Many children may not comply with this expectation due to both cultural and class socialisation processes, and the histories of the oppressive functions of child protection systems. The unspoken power of child protection organisations that must engage in constant translation of children’s cultural capital to ensure participation, may instead better serve children’s participation aims by devolving authority to affected communities. Communities reflecting children’s own, may be better able to offer recognition to children and enable their participation more effectively.

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Section: Participation Individualism and Cultural Capitalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Participation Individualism and Cultural Capitalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Participation Individualism and Cultural Capitalmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Recognising the Embedded Child: Children’s Participation, Child Protection Inequities and Cultural Capital in Child Protection

Keddell¹

2022

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“…infantil, en tanto proceso, puede verse afectada por múltiples factores, tales como la formalidad de los procesos, la falta de preparación de las y los NNA y los desequilibrios de poder que están en juego (Toros, 2020). Por ello, han surgido diferentes propuestas para garantizar la participación infantil en los ámbitos proteccionales (Díaz-Bórquez et al, 2017;Fokala, 2019;García-Quiroga & Salvo-Agoglia, 2020;Holt, 2018;Lay-Lisboa & Montañés, 2018;McCafferty, 2021;Roig et al, 2022). Se requiere que el diseño y la implementación de prácticas participativas cuenten con múltiples condiciones estructurales que faciliten que las y los NNA puedan expresar su opinión en un espacio seguro, inclusivo y adecuado, así como in'uir en la toma de decisiones (Kennan et al, 2018).…”

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"Yo tengo mi abogado": vínculo y participación en representación jurídica de niños

Díaz-Alday,

Salvo-Agoglia,

García-Quiroga

2023

Rev.latinoam.cienc.soc.niñez juv

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(analítico)Este estudio buscó conocer los significados que construyen profesionales del programa Mi Abogado (Chile) sobre el vínculo y la participación infantil. Bajo un diseño cualitativo exploratorio, se realizaron entrevistas semiestructuradas y se aplicó un análisis de contenido. Los participantes señalan que se requiere conocer al niño o adolescente, reconocer su singularidad y su historia de vida. A su vez, es necesario reconstruir la confianza en el mundo adulto, para construir un vínculo significativo como base de la participación infantil. Reconocer la singularidad y reconstruir la confianza permite representarles mejor y fortalecer su agencia, facilitando su participación en los procesos que les afectan directamente. Se sugiere conocer cómo los nuevos programas construyen significados en torno a los derechos en este contexto que busca superar una perspectiva tutelar. Palabras clave: Niños, niñas y adolescentes; participación infantil; representación jurídica; vínculo.

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Kia Tika, Kia Pono - Honouring Truths : ensuring the participatory rights of tamariki and rangatahi who are care experienced

Kemp

Rangatira²,

Egan-Bitran

et al. 2022

Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand

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Children’s Participation in Child Welfare Decision Making: Recognising Dichotomies, Conceptualising Critically Informed Solutions.

Cited by 6 publications

References 61 publications

Recognising the Embedded Child: Children’s Participation, Child Protection Inequities and Cultural Capital in Child Protection

Recognising the Embedded Child: Children’s Participation, Child Protection Inequities and Cultural Capital in Child Protection

"Yo tengo mi abogado": vínculo y participación en representación jurídica de niños

Kia Tika, Kia Pono - Honouring Truths : ensuring the participatory rights of tamariki and rangatahi who are care experienced

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