Surviving Ethnicity and Disability: Minority Children in Public Care

Abstract

One of the imperative of the child centred perspective is to create such forms of social care that children could stay in the community. Focusing at the Central and Eastern Europe it is obvious, that the child centred perspective has become one of the most important ideas in the research on children and in social work practice, yet minority children, including disabled children, Roma and refugee children face the existence in segregated social service settings. The authors argues that the child centred perspective does not take into consideration the treatment of minority children to the same extend that majority children and especially not when they live in public care.