Planning with children for better communities ：The challenge to professionals

Publication subTitle ：The challenge to professionals

Author： Freeman   Claire (Author)   Henderson   Paul (Author)   Kettle   Jane (Author)  

Publisher： Policy Press‎

Publication year： 1999

E-ISBN: 9781847425065

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781861341884

Subject： C91 Sociology

Keyword： Social work

Language： ENG

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Planning with children for better communities

Description

Following the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), the case for children's involvement in decision-making processes has been championed by pressure groups and voluntary organisations. Planning with children for better communities argues that there is now a need to transfer these ideas and experiences to mainstream services of local authorities, regeneration agencies and other organisations. In addition to clarifying why the issue of children's participation should be prioritised, the authors use examples and case studies from a variety of professions and disciplines in order to explain different methods which can be used to support participation. The book: analyses children's and young people's contemporary place in local communities; locates debates about children's and young people's participation in local communities within government social and economic policy; captures children's and young people's views and experiences of community life. The authors conclude that there should be greater recognition of the right of children to determine significant decisions affecting them - children have a clear entitlement to involvement in key decisions which influence their lives. Planning with children for better communities is important reading for local authority planners and policy makers, project workers, community development workers, children's rights officers, youth workers, play workers and students of social and community work and politics. It should also be read by those people in the voluntary and community sector concerned with children's issues relating to planning and community development.

Chapter

PLANNING WITH CHILDREN FOR BETTER COMMUNITIES

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

1. Setting the scene

‘Better communities’

Children and young people

Working for children

Children’s participation

UK focus

Key questions ... and dilemmas

The book’s structure

2. The contemporary context

Diverse and confusing worlds

Children’s lives: changing social demography

Social conditions in the 1990s

Social relations: children and adults

3. Children’s rights

Growth of children’s rights

UK and the Convention

Articulating and responding to children’s rights

Mechanisms for promoting and monitoring children’s rights

Implementing rights locally

4. Children’s participation and the political agenda

Introduction

The case for participation

Context for participation: social conditions and political exclusion

Understanding and benefiting from participation

Participation methods

5. Children in the community

Experiences of community development

Children and community development: the potential

Skills for working in communities

6. Children and professionals

The context: worlds of working with children

Professional reluctance

Professional responsibilities

What can professionals learn from a child’s perspective?

Professionals generally and elected members

Child-centred professionals – teachers and social workers

Programme staff and grass-roots practitioners

Service delivery

Developing skills to maximise children’s participation

Professionals working together with children: the way forward

Do we need to improve the image of professions?

Resource

Concluding comments

7. Involving children in regeneration

How can we define regeneration?

The background to regeneration in Britain

Regeneration into the millennium

Community involvement in regeneration

Participation for children

How does regeneration relate to the concept of social exclusion?

A model of children’s participation in urban regeneration

Concluding comments

8. Children’s physical environment

Introduction

Children’s environmental needs and wants

Changing environments

Changes in urban form

Social changes

Children’s environmental needs

9. Planning with children

Key ideas

Strategic and practice issues

Policy and practice framework

Concluding comments

References

Index

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