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Understanding advocacy for children and young adults / Jane Boylan and Jane Dalrymple.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boylan, Jane.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Legal assistance to children--England.
- Legal assistance to children.
- Legal assistance to children--Wales.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (192 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Maidenhead : Open University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Presenting children and young people's advocacy as an exciting, radical and constantly developing way of working, this book explores its controversial and challenging nature through an examination of the theory and practice of advocacy.
- Contents:
- Front Cover Page; Half Title; Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1 Charting the development of advocacy for children and young people; Chapter 2 Childhood, children's rights and advocacy; Chapter 3 The practice of advocacy: Participation, voice and resistance; Chapter 4 What is advocacy and who defines it?; Chapter 5 Forms of advocacy; Chapter 6 Models for the provision of advocacy; Chapter 7 Advocacy as a tool for anti-oppressive practice; Chapter 8 The way forward - optimism and notes of caution; References; Index; End Cover Page
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-38262-4
- 9786612382628
- 0-335-23919-6
- OCLC:
- 609854901
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