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RDV: Exploring the intersection of food and family intervention policies in England: how are children included? 

Video: Our guest researcher Francesca Vaghi (PhD) delivered an insightful presentation titled Exploring the intersection of food and family intervention […]
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Discretionary Decision-Making in Child Protection Care Order Cases 

PUBLIC DEFENCE: We are immensely happy to announce that our PhD-fellow Barbara Ruiken successfully defended her dissertation “Discretionary Decision-Making in […]
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Minister Toppe Proposes Key Steps to Strengthen Child Protection System 

The Ministry of Children and Families of Norway (Det kongelige barne- og familiedepartement) published a new law report titled “Consultation […]
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Helping parents after a care order – how the family counselling service is a supplement to the child protection system’s follow-up responsibility

Our “Breakfast Seminar for practitioners” (Barnevernfrokost) is a video seminar which aims to communicate important research to professionals and students […]
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Summaries of articles now available in four languages 

Read about some of the most extensive research on child protection and welfare in Norwegian, Russian, Romanian, and English! Insight […]
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Reconciling children’s best interests with their right to be heard 

NEW ARTICLE: Postdoctoral Fellow Hege Beate Stein Helland has published her article on child rights in the prestigious journal International […]
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Highlights from the NOU-seminar at Bergen Global

On the 14th of April, DIPA and LawTransform hosted a seminar on the NOU 2023: 7 (Safe childhood, secure future), […]
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Citizens prefer permanency for children in public care

NEW ARTICLE: In the largest study to date of citizens views on the situation for children growing up in long […]
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Family connections for children in long-term care, guardianship or open adoption

BLOG: In Australia there is developed a comprehensive set of tools to facilitate and ensure positive, safe and child-centred relationships […]
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Children drop off the radar in adoption from care judgments

BLOG: A study of seven European jurisdictions shows that overall, the child is not visible in the court’s justifications. Is […]
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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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Marit Skivenes

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