Child and Youth Care

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most widely ratified human rights treaty in the world, yet everyday children still face poverty, violence, war, disease and disaster. Are the rights we currently afford to children enough? Combining historical analysis with international human rights law, Michael Freeman considers early legal and philosophical theories on children's rights before exploring the impact and limitations of the Convention itself.

This is the first book written for professionals in the criminal justice system to help them better understand and work with people who have ADHD and enhance their effectiveness in working with the 25% of offenders who have ADHD.

The law relating to the mental health care of children and young people aged under 18 (‘adolescents') is renowned for its complexity. In relation to admission to hospital and treatment for mental disorder, it raises issues of uncertainty such as the limits of the decision-making powers as between parents and their children and the developing law on deprivation of liberty. This book covers an overview of services forming ‘CAMHS'(child and adolescent mental health services) system and seeks to demystify this area of law.