Understanding advocacy for children and young people

Understanding advocacy for children and young people by Jane Boylan and Jane Dalrymple - Maidenhead, England ; Open University Press, 2009 - 178 p. ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

1. Charting the development of advocacy for children and young people -- 2. Childhood, children's rights and advocacy -- 3. practice of advocacy: Participation, voice and resistance -- 4. What is advocacy and who defines it? -- 5. Forms of advocacy -- 6. Models for the provision of advocacy -- 7. Advocacy as a tool for anti-oppressive practice -- 8. way forward - optimism and notes of caution

Presenting children and young people's advocacy as an exciting, radical and constantly developing way of working, Boylan and Dalrymple explore its controversial and challenging nature through a comprehensive examination of the theory and practice of advocacy

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Legal assistance to children --England
Legal assistance to children --Wales

HV713 / .B69 2009