UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: implications for social work education

Throughout the world, social workers are implementing the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, ratified by 150 nations to date. Reviewed here is a model for analyzing the convention & its major provisions. Scale data on attitudes of social work students toward children's rights (N = 405 in Australia, which has ratified the Convention, & 186 in the US, which has not) are presented to demonstrate implications for curriculum development & for social work education. 3 Tables, 21 References. Adapted from the source document.