FACILITATING CHILDREN’S PARTICIPATION WITHIN MULTIDISCIPLINARY MEETINGS: GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR CHILD AND YOUTH CARE CENTRES

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https://doi.org/10.15270/57-3-953

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children, children’s participation, child and youth care centres, child protection, guiding principles, multidisciplinary meetings

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Legislation on both an international and national level advocates that all children have a right to participate in all matters affecting them.  This article reflects an interest in children’s participation in the broad field of child protection, and specifically within the context of South African child and youth care centres. Against this contextual background, the article aims to introduce guiding principles that may stimulate ongoing conversation on the facilitation of children’s participation in a specific space of decision-making within child and youth care centres, namely multidisciplinary meetings. Guiding principles were derived from a comprehensive qualitative study in which individual semi-structured interviews and focus group groups were conducted to collect data from residential social workers, child and youth care workers, and children from child and youth care centres in the greater metropolitan area of Cape Town in South Africa

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Jessica Johannisen, North-West University

Centre for Child, Youth and Family Studies, COMPRES

Carlien Van Wyk, North-West University

Centre for Child, Youth and Family Studies, COMPRES, Faculty of Health Sciences

Hannelie Yates, North-West University, Potchefstroom

Unit for Reformational Theology and the Development of The South African Society Sub-Programme – Practical Theology, Faculty of Theology

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2021-08-29

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Johannisen, J., Van Wyk, C., & Yates, H. (2021). FACILITATING CHILDREN’S PARTICIPATION WITHIN MULTIDISCIPLINARY MEETINGS: GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR CHILD AND YOUTH CARE CENTRES. Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 57(3), 376. https://doi.org/10.15270/57-3-953

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