The new handbook of children's rights : comparative policy and practice / edited by Bob Franklin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part One: Children\'s Rights: An Overview 1. The Case for Children\'s Rights Part Two: Children\'s Rights: The Changing Legal Framework 2. Children\'s Educational Rights 3. Children\'s Rights and the Children Act 1989 4. Children\'s Rights and The Criminal Justice Acts 5. Children\'s Rights in a Land of Rites: The UN Convention 6. Children\'s Rights and the Human Rights Act Part Three: Children\'s Rights: Cases of Action 7. Children\'s Rights to Consent to Medical Treatment 8. Rights for Children who are Disabled 9. The Rights and Wrongs of People Who Care 10. Rights for Children who are Refugees 11. Medicalising Children\'s Behaviour 12. Children\'s Rights to Public Space: Environment and Curfews 13. Rights to Sex Education / Sexual Orientation Part Four: Children\'s Rights: Listening to Children and People\'s Voices 14. A Commissioner for Children 15. Children and Citizenship 16. Involving Young People in Research 17. Children\'s Express 18. Teenage Mothers: The Rights and Needs of Young Mothers in Northern Ireland 19. Children\'s Rights and Save the Children\'s Centre for Young Children\'s Rights Part Five: Children\'s Rights: Comparative Perspectives 20. The Scandinavian Experience of Children\'s Rights 21. The Flemish Children\'s Rights Commissioner 22. Children\'s Rights in China 23. Respecting Children\'s Rights to Physical Integrity 24. Outside Childhood: Street Children\'s Rights 25. Children\'s Rights in Australia

This edition provides information on topics including the impact of British legislation on children's rights in key areas such as education, social and welfare services and criminal justice, and the provisions of the UN Convention and Human Rights Act.