Social Policy for Child Rights

The Convention on the Rights of the Child codifies a list of child rights, from health and education to birth registration and privacy. While some of them lay outside of traditional social policy (e.g., children may not be recruited into the army), the activities to realize most of the rights are part and parcel of social policy (or could be, under an expanded vision of social policy).

Theoretical, conceptual, and/or empirical articles exploring the connection between child rights and social policy, in particular how the latter can contribute to realize the former are welcome.

Submissions can include empirical assessments of a specific social policy or programme in a country, a cross-county comparison of policies, a conceptual discussion of implementation elements of social policies (such as universality, targeting, gender, etc.) or theoretical foundations (for instance, the specificity of child needs, decommodification, etc.) as they relate to the progressive realization of child rights.