This volume is the first to comprehensively address issues of protection against discrimination in child and youth welfare law. Robert Uerpmann-Wittzack develops a concept of inclusion and equal participation based on fundamental and human rights. Katharina Lohse examines the individual regulations of the German Social Code VIII with regard to protection against discrimination. Daniela Schweigler sheds light on the principle of organisational diversity. Further contributions deal with the influence of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Sophie Funcke), organisational diversity from an empirical perspective (Christian Peucker), the importance of ethics commissions for a youth welfare service that is critical of racism (Ersan Özdemir) and the guaranteed child allowance (Kindergrundsicherung) set forth by the current federal government (Anne Lenze). With contributions by Sophie Funke | Prof. Dr. Anne Lenze | Katharina Lohse | Ersan Özdemir | Christian Peuker | Prof. Dr. Kirsten Scheiwe | Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schröer | Prof. Dr. Daniela Schweigler | Prof. Dr. Robert Uerpmann-Wittzack | Prof. Dr. Friederike Wapler | Prof. Dr. Michael Wrase