{"id":12,"date":"2014-11-19T13:38:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T13:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/licl\/?p=12"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:24:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:24:43","slug":"getting-started-with-law-in-childrens-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/licl\/2014\/11\/19\/getting-started-with-law-in-childrens-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Started with Law in Children’s Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Draft Alien for Law in Children’s Lives project<\/p><\/div>\n

Welcome to the Law in Children\u2019s Lives project blog. This exciting project was initiated by Dr Dawn Watkins, of the University\u2019s School of Law, and is being funded by the ESRC. The team, including two dedicated Research Associates, started work at the start of September 2014, and since then it\u2019s been all go.<\/p>\n

The project is concerned with finding out how empowered children are by the law. So, rather than looking at children\u2019s involvement in the legal justice system, we\u2019re exploring the degree to which children understand that the law is there all the time in their lives, and can support them in everyday situations.<\/p>\n

However, there\u2019s a problem with asking children directly about this, as when it comes to legal issues, children can often be concerned to give what they think is the \u2018correct\u2019 answer to the adults who are interviewing them. So we\u2019ve decided to remove the adults and replace them with a specially-designed tablet-based game instead. We hope this will encourage children to give answers that really reflect what they would do, whilst also making it a lot more fun for them to take part.<\/p>\n

Since starting the project in September, we\u2019ve been consulting with a number of experts on law and children, but we\u2019ve also been consulting with children from local primary schools to find out what they think. All of this consultation is feeding in to our decisions about how the game will work. We\u2019ll write more about this soon, but in the meantime we\u2019ll give you a taster: the game is going to involve an alien!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the Law in Children\u2019s Lives project blog. This exciting project was initiated by Dr Dawn Watkins, of the University\u2019s School of Law, and is being funded by the ESRC. The team, including two dedicated Research Associates, started work at the start of September 2014, and since then it\u2019s been all go. The project […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,6],"tags":[3,5,2,11,9],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-law","category-research","tag-children","tag-game","tag-law","tag-participation","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/licl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/licl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/licl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/licl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/licl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/licl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/licl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/licl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/licl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/licl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}