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The Participation of Children and Adolescents in the Protection System: The Case of the Spanish Legislation Massons Ribas, Anna Balsells, M. Àngels Cortada i Cortijo, Neus Participation Child protection system Policy documents Children’s right Children’s perspectives Child centrism Child and family welfare Children’s right to participation is enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), specifically in Article 12; however, the participation of children in the protection system continues to be a challenge. There is a need for a paradigm shift, in which children and adolescents (CA) are considered as active subjects of rights in all areas of their lives, and that means allowing them to participate in decisions that concern them. The study analysed 20 Spanish laws, both national and autonomous, that regulate child protection and the rights of CA in the protection system. It focuses on examining the participation of children in the protection system, divided into its three dimensions: the right to be informed, the right to be heard and the right to be involved. There is complexity in the different regulations. All of them are consistent with the CRC and provide for participation, but not all to the same extent. There is a lack of harmonisation between the legislation of autonomous communities, leading to practical difficulties for the professionals who have to implement the legislation on a daily basis. This research was funded by the coordinated research project I+D+i RTI2018-099305-B-C21 Un modelo de acción socioeducativa para la reunificación familiar en el sistema de protección a la infancia y la adolescencia desde el enfoque de la parentalidad positiva (A model of socio-educational action for family reunification in the child and adolescent protection system based on a positive parenting approach), granted by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of the Government of Spain 2024-12-05T12:09:37Z 2024-12-05T12:09:37Z 2024-12-05T12:09:37Z 2021-07-16T07:05:52Z 2021-07-16T07:05:52Z 2021 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/71661 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/RTI2018-099305-B-C21/ES/ESTRATEGIAS Y RECURSOS PARA LA PARTICIPACION FAMILIAR EN EL DESARROLLO DE LAS COMPETENCIAS PARENTALES DURANTE EL ACOGIMIENTO Y LA REUNIFICACION/ Reproducció del document publicat a https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10070268 Social Sciences, 2021, vol. 10, núm. 7, 268 cc-by (c) Anna Massons-Ribas, M. Àngels Balsells, Neus Cortada, 2021 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ MDPI