Newsletter - March 2022
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A study of seven European jurisdictions shows that overall, the child is not visible in the court's justifications. Is this not a direct violation of the child's right to justice?
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Dr. Hege Stein Helland (DIPA), PhD-candidate Siri Hansen Pedersen (UiB), and Professor Marit Skivenes (DIPA) study people's perspectives on child protection interventions for children in vulnerable situations. Published in the Journal of Public Child Welfare, a key finding is that the child protection system in a country is of importance for popular views on these issues.
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While the substantiation of "best interests" has received much attention, the question of how "the child" is conceptualised to safeguard the particular child's interests has been largely neglected. In this article published in the International Journal of Children's Rights, Senior Researcher Jenny Krutzinna (DIPA), propose a child-centric approach focusing on the child's individual characteristics, needs, qualities and circumstances.
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Examining attitudes towards parental freedoms in cases of risk to a child, Professor Marit Skivenes (DIPA), Professor Jill D. Berrick (UC Berkeley) and Dr. Joseph N. Roscoe (Rogers Behavioral Health) find significant differences between Californians (USA) and Norwegians in a recent publication in the Journal of Social Policy.
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In this report, PhD Fellow Barbara Ruiken (DIPA), presents information from County Board decisions concerning children's placement in residential units. The report builds on new data collected as part of the BARN-NEMND-project aiming to develop an unprecedented time-series database on care order decisions in Norway. The report is in Norwegian.
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In this blogpost, Yngve Nedrebø offer constructive remarks on the phenomenon of state authority critique - problematization of the welfare state and the child protection system.
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Christian Børge Sørensen: Since the autumn of 2018, Norway has been convicted in the European Court of Human Rights for violating the right to family life in 14 child protection cases. This has led to changes in the Norwegian child protection law and practice. In this webinar, County Board Chair Sørensen questions whether the pendulum have gone too far in the direction of safeguarding families' unity. The lecture is in Norwegian.
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Kjersti Sandanger: What impacts decision making in child protection cases concerning reunifications after care orders and how are decisions made? In this webinar, Kjersti Sandanger reflects on the issue of reunification from the perspective of child protection services. The lecture is in Norwegian.
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All events are held as webinars and are open to the public.
You are most welcome to join.
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Five researchers at the University of Bergen have received 25 million NOK each to conduct original research crossing disciplinary boundaries. Director of DIPA, Professor Marit Skivenes, is one of them, receiving the grant for the project Child Protection Systems Across the World (CPS-WORLD). The project tackles a looming gap in welfare state research on different child protection systems across the globe and how they protect children from abuse, neglect, and maltreatment.
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Professor and Special Rapporteur on Child Protection, Conor O'Mahony, recently published the 2020-2021 annual report to the Irish Government on child protection. The publication considers the findings of relevant reports of national and international bodies as well as developments in international law, national court decisions and academic research published during the reporting period. Several publications from DIPA are featured in the report.
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Our colleague, Neil Datta (Secretary of the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights) recently spoke at a hearing in the European Parliament about the backlash against social and political rights. In particular, the hearing drew attention to how cash flows from American conservative organizations support movements against women's and LGBTIQ rights in Europe. "They are part of the local expressions of a transnational anti-gender network," said Datta.
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Our colleague, Neil Datta (The European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights) recently presented the updated contraception atlas, underscoring a clear divide between Eastern and Western Europe in terms of the accessibility of contraception.
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Recent publications from the Centre
Helland, H. S., Pedersen, S. H. & Skivenes, M. (2022) Comparing population view's on state responsibility for children in vulnerable situations - the role of institutional context and socio-demographic characteristics. Journal of Public Child Welfare, AHEAD-OF-PRINT, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/15548732.2022.2051674
Krutzinna, J. (2022) Who is "The Child"? Best Interests and Individuality of Children in Discretionary Decision-Making. The International Journal of Children's Rights, 30(1), 120-145. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-30010005
Berrick, J. D., M. Skivenes and J. N. Roscoe (2022) Parental Freedom in the Context of Risk to the Child: Citizens' Views of Child Protection and the State in the US and Norway. Journal of Social Policy, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279421001021.
Berrick, J. D., M. Skivenes and J. N. Roscoe (2021). Children's rights and parents' rights: Popular attitudes about when we privilege one over the other. International Journal of Social Welfare, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijsw.12523.
Thoburn, J. (2021) Processes and determining factors when family court judgments are made in England about infants entering care at birth. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law. 10.1080/09649069.2021.1996082
Helland, H. S. (2021). In the Best Interest of the Child? Justifying Decisions on Adoption from Care in the Norwegian Supreme Court. The International Journal of Children's Rights, 29(3), 609- 639. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-29030004.
Helland, H. S. (2021). Reasoning between Rules and Discretion: A Comparative Study of the Normative Platform for Best Interest Decision-Making on Adoption in England and Norway. International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 35(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/lawfam/ebab036.
Skivenes, M. (2021). Exploring populations view on thresholds and reasons for child protection intervention - comparing England, Norway, Poland and Romania. European Journal of Social Work. Ahead-of-print, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2021.1995706.
McEwan-Strand, A. and M. Skivenes (2021). “Children’s Capacities and Role in Matters of Great Significance for Them: An Analysis of the Norwegian County Boards’ Decision-Making in Cases about Adoption from Care” in Fenton-Glynn and Sloan (eds.) Parental Guidance, State Responsibility and Evolving Capacities. Brill Nijhoff: Leiden, The Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004446854_011.
Løvlie, A. G. and M. Skivenes (2021). “Justifying interventions in Norwegian child protection: An analysis of violence in migrant and non-migrant families in Norway.” Nordic Journal on Law and Society, Vol. 4 (2), 1-41. https://doi.org/10.36368/njolas.v4i02.178
Please contact us if you require access to any of the publications:
discretion@uib.no
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