"We Had to Be There to Make Sure It Was What We Wanted": Enabling Children's Participation in Family Decision-Making through the Family Group Conference

Autor/inn/en	Holland, Sally; O'Neill, Sean
Titel	"We Had to Be There to Make Sure It Was What We Wanted": Enabling Children's Participation in Family Decision-Making through the Family Group Conference
Quelle	In: Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 13 (2006) 1, S.91-111 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0907-5682
DOI	10.1177/0907568206059975
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Children; Family Involvement; Decision Making; Conferences; Youth; Interviews; Child Welfare; Participation; Child Advocacy; Empowerment; Group Discussion; Meetings; Foster Care; Family Relationship; United Kingdom; United Kingdom (Wales) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Child; Kind; Kinder; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Kindeswohl; Teilnahme; Kinder- und Jugendanwaltschaft; Gruppendiskussion; Meeting; Tagung; Pflegehilfe; Großbritannien
Abstract	The article reports from a qualitative study of family group conferencing in Wales. Family group conferences are meetings of extended family networks that are convened in order to plan for a child's care and welfare. They are an attempt to enable families to have a greater say in welfare decisions and often particularly encourage children's participation in the meetings. The research was a qualitative study of 17 family meetings. Twenty-five children and young people were interviewed within 1 month of the meeting and 13 were reinterviewed 6 months later. Adult participants were also interviewed. The findings and discussion are related to the following broad areas: the risks and benefits for children of taking part in such interventions, some of the different priorities for children and adults regarding participation and the potential tensions between individual needs and rights and those of "the family" as a whole. (Contains 2 tables.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10