The sources that I accessed for the book include not only the primary legal materials and the published studies of historians but also the parliamentary debates on the various Acts passed by Westminster, and latterly Holyrood, from the Prevention of Cruelty to, and Protection of, Children Act, 1889 to the Children (Equal Protection from Assault) (Scotland) Act 2019. Today, parental contact is protected in its own right and is rightly perceived in all but the most egregious cases of bad parenting as a means of enhancing the child’s welfare. Until the 1960s the prevailing approach was to see the child protection process as a means of insulating children from bad parental influences, and there was very little provision made for children to keep contact with their parents and no provision at all for working with the parents to ease the child’s eventual return to their care. Perhaps most noticeably, attitudes towards the role of parents once children have been removed from their care has transformed. And we are in today’s post-Imperial world horrified at our earlier practice of forced emigration to the colonies as a “solution” to the problem of children in need. Our willingness to accept corporal punishment of children has all but evaporated. Some social attitudes have of course changed radically, and with them the legal rules that they reflect. What has changed, but only very recently, is how the placements in which child protection is provided are regulated, as we as a society have become much more conscious of – or, perhaps, less willing to ignore – the dangers that children face when placed in institutional care. ![]() The creation of the children’s hearing as a wholly new tribunal in 1968, served to hide the continuities in the legal processes activated by child neglect and abuse: personnel and structures may on the surface be different but the processes that children’s hearings follow were established long before the hearing system itself, as were the grounds for its jurisdiction. The conceptualisation of child-offending as a failure in appropriate parenting rather than as a sign of punishment-deserving wickedness has been a central feature for far longer than we tend to realise today. However the longevity of the philosophy upon which the Scottish approach to child protection is based proved a surprise. Political structures and priorities change with the temper of the times, but the need of any child for a safe and secure childhood as a prerequisite for a contented and fulfilled adulthood remains a constant. The study of history is not only about understanding the past but also about informing the choices we make for the future. It traces, in a way that has never been done before, the development of child protection law in Scotland from its earliest manifestations, growing out of the “old poor law”, to the present day, with the primary aim of enhancing not only our understanding of how our contemporary processes operate, but why they do so in the way that they do. ![]() The book seeks to explore the policy choices that were made at various points in the development of child protection law in Scotland, and to contextualise these choices within world-wide trends. The upper slopes of the mountain have their own distinct climatic conditions and are protected for their value for botanical research.EUP Publishes Professor Norrie’s History of Scottish Child Protection Lawīy Kenneth Norrie - Posted on 28 September 2020īuilding upon the work that I did for the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry into the experiences of children who had suffered while in the care of persons or bodies other than their parents, I have spent the last several years on historical research and Edinburgh University Press has now published my History of Scottish Child Protection Law. It’s one of the places in Jeju that offers a picturesque view of the temple along with the mountain as a backdrop.Īlso, due to its close location to the sea and its high elevation, the peak is often ringed with clouds, offering another photo opportunity. It is located next to Sanbanggulsa temple and is only a short hike up to 30 minutes. Sanbangsan Mountain is the result of violent volcanic activity some 700,000 to 800,000 years ago and is, in fact, a huge body of lava.
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