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Evolving Capacities: The B.C. Representative For Children And Youth As A Hybrid Model Of Oversight, Mary Liston
Evolving Capacities: The B.C. Representative For Children And Youth As A Hybrid Model Of Oversight, Mary Liston
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This paper explores hybrid models of oversight through an examination of a new institutional creation: British Columbia’s Representative for Children and Youth (BC RCY). The paper argues that societal changes in the conception of children’s worth have significantly affected approaches to child welfare and have also stimulated institutional innovation. The paper begins with a historical overview of the legal and moral status of children, focusing on the child as the subject of government protection, and then considers the evolution of children’s rights in the twentieth century. This conceptual shift from children as passive objects of paternal state care to (near) …