Ethical issues are a crucial consideration when researchers are working with children and young people. This clear and practical text informs students and researchers about all the relevant laws and guidelines that apply when they are conducting research with children and young people.

The Ethics of Research with Children and Young People cover ethics at every stage of research, and with all kinds of research participants, particularly focusing on those who are vulnerable or neglected. The authors break down the process of researching with children and young people into ten stages, each with its own set of related questions and problems, to help the reader understand the ethical issues which they need to address at each stage of their research.

This is an accessible, practical and passionate book and will be essential reading for anyone looking to conduct research with children or young people.

The Impact on Children

Most ethics guidance is concerned with the personal cost and benefit to participants during the data collecting stage (Chapter 2). Much less is said about the ethics of the likely impact of the published reports, either on children in the study or on related groups of children and young people. How ...

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