This study examines three areas of child policy assumed by scholars and recent research to relieve child poverty; child benefits, child support and early childhood education and care (ECEC) from a children’s rights perspective by comparing Iceland, Norway and the UK, 1991-2011, asking when, if and how do children's rights emerge in these policies. These areas of policy provide a good opportunity to examine the tension between the child, the adult and the state. A new framework was created combining both children’s rights and child poverty theories with comparative analysis. The results indicate that when and in what form children’s rights emerged not only suggests a classification of the three states; Iceland an Equality-Integrity Rights based system; Norway an Integrity Rights based system; the UK a Family-Centred/Social Investment system. It also opened up an understanding of the three policy areas studied; that the triangular relationship between the state, parent and child is very important and policy specific. These results can help guide policymakers in their search for evidence-based policies, and the framework offers politicians, activists, researchers and social workers a simple, sophisticated tool to gauge children's rights in policies.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:616578 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | Jeans, Cynthia Lisa |
| Contributors | Ridge, Tess ; Harkness, Susan |
| Publisher | University of Bath |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
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