Home > Arhiva > 2009 > Numar: 3 - 4 > Putting children first in Wales: The evaluation of Extending Entitlement Putting children first in Wales: The evaluation of Extending Entitlement
by:
- Kevin Haines (Centre for Criminal Justice and Criminology, School of Law, Vivian Tower, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea, UK. SA2 8PP)
- Stephen Case (Centre for Criminal Justice and Criminology, School of Law, Vivian Tower, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea, UK. SA2 8PP, E-mail: S.P.Case@swansea.ac.uk)
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The positive perceptions of children and young people articulated within European youth strategies and the constructive and inclusionary practices that have emerged from them often belie the punitive, exclusionary and stigmatising approaches that many of these countries adopt when working with children and young people who are considered vulnerable, ‘at risk of’ or who actually display problematic behaviours (e.g. offending, drug use, teenage pregnancy).
Using empirical data from the evaluation of the Welsh Assembly Government’s ‘Extending Entitlement’ youth inclusion strategy as its touchstone, this paper explores and discusses the potential advantages of pursuing a proactive, inclusionary, children first, children’s rights agenda when model of working with young people.
Keywords: entitlements, rights, inclusion, Wales, enabling factors
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