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This document outlines an essay assignment on children's rights in the UK with reference to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It provides an introduction, conclusion, and outlines nine sections to be included on: theories of children's rights; developmental approaches; social justice; legal changes; global comparisons; and the realization of rights to provision, participation, and protection in the UK. The document advises selecting material selectively and editing to relate all content to the final essay question on evaluating how the UNCRC has achieved social justice for UK children.
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- 2. Needs from Rights:100 Will or Interests?: 200 Developmental Approaches: 200 Social Justice and Rights: 200 Legal Realisation of Rights: 200 Global Comparisons: 200 Provision: 400 Participation: 400 Protection: 400 Total: 2300 Section Words
- 3. Needs from Rights:100 Will or Interests?: 200 Developmental Approaches: 200 Social Justice and Rights: 200 Legal Realisation of Rights: 200 Global Comparisons: 200 Provision: 400 Participation: 400 Protection: 400 Conclusion: 300 Total: 2600 Section Words
- 4. Section Words Introduction: 200 Needsfrom Rights: 100 Will or Interests?: 200 Developmental Approaches: 200 Social Justice and Rights: 200 Legal Realisation of Rights: 200 Global Comparisons: 200 Provision: 400 Participation: 400 Protection: 400 Conclusion: 300 Total: 2800
- 5. 200 words ‘spare’for signposting and conceptual links (synthesis).
- 6. Introduction (ish) This essaywill discuss the how the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 (UNCRC) has been realised in the UK with reference to social justice. In doing so, the concept of children’s rights will be analysed from multiple perspectives including… Blah Blah Blah. The latter half of the essay will analyse how UK children have or have not realised their rights under the themes of ‘Provision’, ‘Participation’ and ‘Protection’. Examples will be drawn across the fields of blah and blah. Historical comparisons of children’s rights will be made, and different countries’ implementation of the UNCRC will be evaluated. Finally, conclusions will be made as to how the UNCRC has, or has not, achieved social justice for UK children.
- 7. Conclusion (ish) This essayhas discussed the how the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 (UNCRC) has been realised in the UK with reference to social justice. There continues to be a tension between children’s welfare/interest rights and their autonomy rights, illustrated by ‘blah’ and ‘blah’. In terms of ‘Provision’, it can be said that blah blah Children’s rights to ‘Participate’ are illustrated in blah. However, blah also indicates that blah. The right to be protected, (articles blah), typify the tension between blah blah. The UK has blah Finally, in conclusion, conceptions of social justice differ. If social justice involves ‘blah’, it may hold that the UK has achieved blah for children by implementing blah blah. However, in terms of blah….
- 8. What are themain differences between 'will' and 'Interest' theories of Children's Rights? Autonomy Rights Welfare Rights Paternalism
- 9. What are developmental approaches to children'srights? How might they relate to Articles 5 and 12 of the UNCRC 1989 Article 5 encourages parents to deal with rights issues "in a manner consistent with the evolving capacities of the child. Article 12 (Respect for the views of the child): When adults are making decisions that affect children, children have the right to say what they think should happen and have their opinions taken into account.
- 10. How does your chosenArticle of the UNCRC promote Social Justice? Inequality Redistribution Principle based Utilitarian based Rawls; Nozick; Sen
- 11. How has the lawchanged in terms of children's rights? Father as paramount Doli Incapax Gillick Competency Child as Paramount Inconsistency and fragmentation
- 12. How does theUK perform in relation to other countries in terms of promoting wellbeing? Smacking? Innocenti Report 2013
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- 20. Conclusion • This assignmentrequires that you demonstrate a broad knowledge of the content and how it relates to children’s rights in the UK. • Although you may structure your essay how you like, the first four sessions relate to ‘definitional’ contestations about (children’s) rights and social justice. • The law content (session 5) will enable you to demonstrate your legal awareness of children’s rights being enshrined (or not!) in domestic law. • The global content (session 6) will enable you to compare the success of the UK on children’s rights with other countries (i.e. Northern European; Southern European; The USA, former Soviet countries). • Then the ‘3P’ sessions (7;8;9) will enable you to go into thematic detail as to how certain types of rights detailed in the Articles of the UNCRC 1989 are supposed to be asserted, and then using examples, analyse to what extent the UK realizes these. • Note: You will necessarily have to be selective with your material. • To achieve this, you must give yourself enough time to edit your document, as the weekly tasks and words might need ‘tweaking’ to ensure that your final essay discussion relates to the final essay question. • Good luck!