Let Your Child Speak Up: A Step-by-Step Guide to Enhancing Child Practice

Frankle presents a useful and accessible guide to ensuring a culture of advocacy for children's rights and their participation in daily practices and correcting the situations of adults with children.Barry Percy Smith, Professor of Childhood and Participatory Practice, University of Huddersfield How do you ensure that children's voices are heard and valued? In a simple and progressive framework, this book discusses children's abilities to advocate for themselves, rather than being completely controlled and defended by adults. Thus, by respecting and leveraging children's contributions, social workers and educators can improve their daily practices and positively transform key spaces within society to provide an environment in which children can experience a sense of belonging and purpose, by providing real opportunities for their effective practices.This book, with its practical essence, includes case studies from various countries around the world with wide applications, from clarifying the status of children with regard to legal issues, such as divorce, for example, to children's participation in decisions related to their education.Creative Director EquippingKids Sam Frankel Equippingkids and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield, King's University of Western Ontario. His work includes the Streetwise Program (JKP, 2009). He is also an adjunct professor at King's University of Western Ontario.