eprintid: 1535502 rev_number: 25 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/01/53/55/02 datestamp: 2022-03-22 14:00:58 lastmod: 2022-03-22 14:00:58 status_changed: 2022-03-22 14:00:58 type: book_section succeeds: 1493976 metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Alderson, P title: Children's Consent and 'Assent' to Healthcare Research ispublished: pub divisions: A01 divisions: B16 divisions: B14 divisions: J81 keywords: children's consent, children's assent, medical research, English law, ethics note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: The idea of children's 'assent' to medical research became part of English law in 2004. However, this overrides English legal traditions of children's consent. Although this chapter concentrates on English law and guidance, it has international relevance. English law integrates with European law and also has influence over more than a billion people in the fifty-four British Commonwealth countries. Ethics guidance in England on consent to research influences international projects, based in Britain and conducted in Europe and in every other continent. Discussions about children's consent and assent illuminate meeting points between law and childhood studies across the world. This chapter examines contrasting meanings of consent and 'assent', and reviews the related law and ethics. It discusses whether children's consent or their assent offers them best support and protection while they are considering whether to take part in research, and while they are research subjects. It gives examples of some present problems, which indicate the need for broader understanding of children's consent. date: 2012-03-08 date_type: published publisher: Oxford University Press official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199652501.003.0012 full_text_type: other verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1106496 doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199652501.003.0012 isbn_13: 9780199652501 lyricists_name: Alderson, Priscilla lyricists_id: DPALD60 actors_name: Alderson, Priscilla actors_id: DPALD60 actors_role: owner full_text_status: restricted volume: 14 place_of_pub: Oxford, UK book_title: Law and Childhood Studies: Current Legal Issues editors_name: Freeman, Michael citation: Alderson, P; (2012) Children's Consent and 'Assent' to Healthcare Research. In: Freeman, Michael, (ed.) Law and Childhood Studies: Current Legal Issues. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1535502/3/Alderson_%20P.%202012%20Assent%20in%20Law%20and%20childhood%20studies%20174-189.pdf