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43 J. Soc. Welfare & Fam. L. 1 (2021)

handle is hein.journals/jnlosclwl43 and id is 1 raw text is: JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND FAMILY LAW Routledge 2021, VOL. 43, NO. 1, 1-7 https://doi.org/10.1080/09649069.2021.1876304 Taylor &Francis Group Transforming children's rights? Dilemmas, challenges and implementation Sheila Riddell a and E. Kay M. Tisdall@ aCentre for Research in Education Inclusion and Diversity (CREID), University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; bChildren and Young People MHSES, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK KEYWORDS The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) has now been United Nations Convention in place for over thirty years and is widely ratified. However, as the on the Rights of the Child; UNCRC is operationalised, a number of practical, conceptual and Operationalising Children's ethical issues have emerged . For example, questions arise concern- Rights; International context ing children's capacity and competence to make autonomous deci- of children's rights sions, their involvement in dispute resolution and the relationship between the rights of children and those of their parents. Particular challenges arise in realising the rights of younger children and those with significant disabilities. The papers in this special edition explore these issues in relation to the UK and the wider international context, and also in different fields of social policy. Introduction The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) has now been in place for over thirty years. Emerging from the United Nations General Assembly in 1989, it has since become the most ratified international human rights treaty ever. But with such widespread ratification has come a host of practical, conceptual and ethical issues as the UNCRC is operationalised (e.g. Holzscheiter 2010, Kilkelly 2019, Stalford and Lundy 2020). For example, questions arise concerning children's capa- city and competence to make autonomous decisions in various policy areas (Daly 2017, Sutterlity 2017). There are debates about children's involvement in dispute resolution and the extent to which rights must always be associated with redress in order to make them meaningful (Riddell and Weedon 2010). The relationships between the rights of children on the one hand and those of parents on the other continue to cause tensions in such areas as family law and education (e.g. Hunter et al. 2018). Particular challenges arise in relation to younger children and those with significant disabilities (Riddell and Weedon 2016, Twomey and Carroll 2018, Riddell 2020). These are issues with particular UK salience, as well as garnering European and international attention (e.g. Collins 2017, European Fundamental Rights Agency 2017). Contributors to this special issue draw on different disciplines and research traditions (principally disability and childhood studies, education, law and social CONTACT Sheila Riddell ® Sheila.Riddell@ed.ac.uk © 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group

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