This report compares child wellbeing in developed countries around the world.

An insightful and humorous account of the author's first year in Norway as a foreigner. From Easter to summer holidays and Christmas, it dives deeply into Norwegian culture, language and people.

This book builds upon and advances the comparative analysis of child protection systems that was conducted in the mid-1990s.

Provides insights into a lively field of international human rights politics – the protection of children and their rights – by looking at the negotiations leading to the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

This open access book critically explores what child protection policy and professional practice would mean if practice was grounded in human rights standards.

Within a historical and contemporary context, this book examines major policy practice and research issues as they jointly shape child welfare practice and its future.

... online complaints concerning immigrants from Poland ) ; problems related to the children of migrants abroad ( e.g. cases of children being taken away from Polish parents by social workers from the German Jugendamt , Norwegian Barnevernet ...

This text aims to present new research at the intersection of social work, law, and social policy concerning child protection proceedings for children in need of alternative care.

This book is the first scholarly attempt to address this implementation paradox. The authors ask: What is the current level of implementation? How can we explain any gap in perceived performance?