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Populations express confidence in their child protection system (30.03.2023)
New article in the prestigious Journal of Social Policy: PhD candidate Mathea Loen and Professor Marit Skivenes finds that a majority of populations in Czechia, England, Finland, Norway, Poland, and Romania express confidence in their child protection system.
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Skivenes presented NOU on legal protection in child welfare services (17.03.2023)
On March 20th Professor Marit Skivenes presented NOU 2023: 7 on legal protection in child welfare services.
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The Oxford Handbook of Child Protection Systems (06.03.2023)
This handbook, edited by Jill Duerr Berrick, Neil Gilbert and Marit Skivenes, is the largest to date overview of child protection systems across the world. The book describes and analyzes the ways in which 50 countries from every continent, except Antarctica, have developed measures for the protection of children in need of protection against maltreatment prescribed in the UNCRC.