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Family life for children in state care

NEW ARTICLE: Analysis shows that the status and respect of the child’s de facto family life is increasing.
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Trust in the Norwegian Child Protection System

VIDEO: Marit Skivenes in conversation with judge Arnfinn Bårdsen from the European Court of Human Rights.
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Children are not sufficiently involved

NEW ARTICLE: Many children are absent in the decision-maker’s justification and conclusion about adoption, finds Skivenes & McEwan-Strand.
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Why don’t children participate?

BLOG: An ongoing puzzle is to explain why children in the child protection system are not participating as the Convention of […]
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Protecting Children, Creating Citizens

VIDEO: Recording of the webinar on children’s participation is now available.
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Literature update

LITERATURE OVERVIEW: See our list of recently published articles of interest.
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Judging Parental Competence

ARTICLE: Krutzinna & Skivenes analyse judicial decision makers’ assessment of mothers’ parenting capacities in newborn removal cases.
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Awarded the Peder Sather Grant

NEW PROJECT: Marit Skivenes and Jill D. Berrick are awarded a research grant to study cross-national experiences of foster care […]
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Success for online course

The PhD-course in Systematic Reviews in Social Sciences attracted students from different countries and disciplines.
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Assessments of future parenting

ARTICLE: New study presents needed insights into how legal decision-makers in Norway justify care orders of newborn children.
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Research Centre at the University of Bergen. We study government’s use of power towards its citizens, and justifications thereof. Focus on children's rights and child protection.

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Christies gate 17

5007 Bergen

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University of Bergen

Department of Administration
and Organization Theory
C/O Marit Skivenes

P.O: 7802, 5020 Bergen
Norway