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Children's rights after Cleveland
Author(s) -
NEWELL PETER
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
children and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-0860
pISSN - 0951-0605
DOI - 10.1111/j.1099-0860.1988.tb00336.x
Subject(s) - attendance , confidentiality , intervention (counseling) , action (physics) , child abuse , law , psychology , criminology , political science , medicine , psychiatry , suicide prevention , poison control , medical emergency , physics , quantum mechanics
SUMMARY. The Cleveland Inquiry Report rightly emphasises that children should be treated as people, not objects of concern. The ‘best interests’ justification for intervention in children's lives can be inadequate and add professional abuse to the abuse already suffered. Child abuse must be seen as an issue of children's rights. The recommendations of the Inquiry Report are seen as a good basis for action but it fails to draw the logical conclusions in some areas, including children's rights to confidentiality and attendance at case conferences and court hearings