Children's Rights to Participate in Out-of-Home Care

Claudia Equit, PhD, is a professor of social pedagogy at the Leuphana university Lueneburg, Germany. She is involved in several research projects in the field of alternative care and children´s rights. She is the founder of the International Network „Participation of looked after children and adolescents in child welfare" associated with EUSARF. She can be reached at claudia.equit@leuphana.de Jade Purtell is a multidisciplinary researcher and practitioner focused on out-of-home care and transitions from care experiences and youth participation in policy-making processes. Jade is currently managing the Peer Worker models for transitions from care project at Monash University and undertaking her PhD in care leaver early parenting. She can be reached at jade.purtell@monash.edu

0.Participation of Children and Young People in Alternative care – Introduction. 1.Beyond Youth-centeredness in the Residential Care Participation Discourse: Moving from Aesthetics to Everyday Life where Young People Matter. 2.Increasing Opportunities for Care Experienced Young People’s Participation in Decision-Making about State Care: Embedding Ethical Approaches in an Australian Context. 3.Professional Practice in Rights-Based Foster Care, and The Child's Right to Participate. 4.Space and Agency in Everyday Lives of Young People in Care in France and England. 5.Can Children’s Participation be Promoted from the Outside? Insights from Sweden on Public Monitoring of Foster and Residential Care. 6.A Reflection on the Collective Participation of Youth in Foster Care in Context: Limits, Barriers, and Opportunities. 7.Participation of Young People in Residential Care: Professionals’ Perceptions about Barriers and Facilitators in Portugal. 8."How we see this": Young People’s View on Participation in Switzerland: Results and Reflections on Preventing Victimization in Residential Care. 9.Different Subcultures in Residential Groups in Germany– Implications for Participation and the Victimization of Children and Young People. 10.Independent Professional Advocacy in Daycare Centres Promoting Young People’s Participation in Italy. 11.Conclusion: Challenges and Progress for Participating Young People in Residential Groups and Foster Families.