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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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Wrong direction for the Norwegian child protection?

BLOG: There has been a significant reduction in child protection help and interventions towards children and families in vulnerable situations […]
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NOU-seminar at Bergen Global

Public seminar on the NOU-report about rule of law in the Norwegian child protection systemFriday 14th of April, at 2pm, […]
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Populations express confidence in their child protection system

NEW ARTICLE in the prestigious Journal of Social Policy: PhD candidate Mathea Loen and Professor Marit Skivenes finds that a […]
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Den første NOUen for barn

Barn har rett på informasjon om saker som gjelder dem, og det må være tilpasset informasjon. Skivenes-utvalget som har levert […]
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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

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C/O Marit Skivenes

P.O: 7802, 5020 Bergen
Norway

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Marit Skivenes

Phone:
+47 959 24 979
+47 55 58 25 87

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Marit.Skivenes@uib.no