For centuries, residential child and youth care systems worldwide have provided homes for vulnerable children and adolescents. The implementation of children's

This open access book critically explores what child protection policy and professional practice would mean if practice was grounded in human rights standards.

The 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has inspired advocates and policy makers across the globe, injecting children's rights terminology into variou

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