Children's Experience, Participation, and Rights During COVID-19

This edited volume examines how opportunities to realise children's rights and the experience of childhood itself have been changed by the pandemic. It brings together the voices of leading scholars, policy advisors, psychologists, charities engaged in empowering children, and children and young people themselves. By exposing children's own perspectives and ideas for change, the book aims to suggest ways in which children could be better supported during this crisis. Chapters connect the experiences of under-represented groups, including children with disabilities and housing-distressed children. Authors illuminate ways to see and hear children more clearly and enable children's participation during and beyond COVID-19.

This book is part of a mini-series that explores the effects of COVID-19 on children's education, rights and participation. These books will expose and connect the struggles faced by particularly vulnerable children, including children with disabilities, housing-distressed children, and refugee and displaced children. They will explore how best to listen to and support children in diverse situations, in order to enable them to realise their rights more effectively.

Offers perspectives from academia and humanitarian groups as well as from a collective of youth activists themselves Sheds light on the experience of childhood in lockdown to counteract youth invisibility in pandemic times Asks whether children's rights are being put into practice, why, and why not

Autorentext

Ruby Turok-Squire is studying for the Graduate Diploma in Law at City, University of London, UK. She previously completed an LLM in International Development Law and Human Rights at the University of Warwick, UK. In 2020, she co-organised an interdisciplinary conference entitled "Rainbows in Our Windows: Childhood in the Time of Corona".

Klappentext

This edited volume examines how opportunities to realise children s rights and the experience of childhood itself have been changed by the pandemic. It brings together the voices of leading scholars, policy advisors, psychologists, charities engaged in empowering children, and children and young people themselves. By exposing children s own perspectives and ideas for change, the book aims to suggest ways in which children could be better supported during this crisis. Chapters connect the experiences of under-represented groups, including children with disabilities and housing-distressed children. Authors illuminate ways to see and hear children more clearly and enable children s participation during and beyond COVID-19. This book is part of a mini-series that explores the effects of COVID-19 on children s education, rights and participation. These books will expose and connect the struggles faced by particularly vulnerable children, including children with disabilities, housing-distressed children, and refugee and displaced children. They will explore how best to listen to and support children in diverse situations, in order to enable them to realise their rights more effectively.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- Section I: Good Childhoods.- 2. The Movement for Good Childhoods: How Can We Put Children at the Heart of Our National Life?.- 3. Children's Experiences of Pandemic Across Europe: Inequalities and the Potential of Participation.- Section II: Children's Rights.- 4. Children's Human Rights and COVID-19.- 5. Children's "Living Rights" in the COVID-19 Era.- 6. Children's Rights to be Heard and to be Seen: Child Protection in the UK in Response to the Pandemic Section III: Hungry for Change.- 7. "Hungry for Change": Why Living in a Pandemic Led Young People to Question Their Food System and Its Priorities.- 8. "Voiceless" and "Vulnerable": Challenging How Disabled Children and Young are Portrayed and Treated During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the UK.