Assessing children’s capacity: Reconceptualising our understanding through the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

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dc.contributor.authorDaly, Aoife
dc.contributor.funderIndependent Social Research Foundationen
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-26T10:52:17Z
dc.date.available2021-01-26T10:52:17Z
dc.date.issued2020-08-24
dc.date.updated2021-01-20T12:38:12Z
dc.description.abstractThis article seeks to reconceptualise approaches to assessing children’s capacity, particularly in light of Article 5 of the crc, which enshrines the principle of the evolving capacities of the child. Professionals regularly assess children’s capacity, for example when doctors treat children, or when lawyers represent child clients. They usually do this assessment intuitively however, as there is little guidance on how assessment should work in practice. Medical law in England and Wales serves as a case study to examine law and practice as well as challenges in the area. It is concluded that it may not necessarily be possible objectively to measure children’s capacity, and it may need to be done intuitively. Yet it should be done via a process which is rights-based. An approach to children’s capacity is proposed through four concepts based on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: Autonomy, Evidence, Support and Protection.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationDaly, A. (2020) 'Assessing Children’s Capacity: Reconceptualising our Understanding through the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child', The International Journal of Children's Rights, 28(3), pp. 471-499. doi: 10.1163/15718182-02803011en
dc.identifier.doi10.1163/15718182-02803011en
dc.identifier.eissn1571-8182
dc.identifier.endpage499en
dc.identifier.issn0927-5568
dc.identifier.issued3en
dc.identifier.journaltitleInternational Journal of Children's Rightsen
dc.identifier.startpage471en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/10961
dc.identifier.volume28en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherBrill Academic Publishersen
dc.relation.urihttps://brill.com/view/journals/chil/28/3/article-p471_471.xml
dc.rights© Aoife Daly, 2020. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 Licenseen
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectChildren’s capacityen
dc.subjectGillick competenceen
dc.subjectBest interestsen
dc.subjectMedical lawen
dc.subjectAutonomyen
dc.subjectDue weighten
dc.subjectDevelopmental psychologyen
dc.titleAssessing children’s capacity: Reconceptualising our understanding through the UN Convention on the Rights of the Childen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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