An evaluation of a therapeutic foster care program has shown significant improvements in children previously thought too complex and challenging for foster care.
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Older Australians needing extra help at home with bathing or gardening can now choose who provides that service. So what do you need to know before choosing a new service for yourself or a family member?
Few people are talking about how children in residential care and those in juvenile jail are essentially the same people.
Homeless children charged in NSW with a criminal offence who are unable to meet bail conditions are being kept in custody. It’s due, in part, to a well-meant but flawed section of the Bail Act.
The NSW government’s latest promised solution to well-documented abuse in the out-of-home care system is, in fact, a re-run of promises made by the Carr government more than a decade ago.
We have decades of evidence showing the widespread abuse and neglect suffered by children in the out-of-home care system. The agencies responsible for allowing the abuse have little to fear.
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Director, Kath McFarlane Consulting & Adjunct Associate Professor, The Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Professor & Director, Institute of Child Protection Studies, Australian Catholic University
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Deputy Director: Australian Centre for Child Protection, University of South Australia
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Senior Research Fellow, Co-Head, Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing, Telethon Kids Institute
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Professor Indigenous Health Equity, The University of Melbourne
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Associate professor, Jumbunna Insitute for Indigenous Education and Research, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow in Social Policy and Social Work, UNSW Sydney
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Director, Arney Chong Consulting and Positive Futures Research, University of South Australia
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Professor, School of Law, Queensland University of Technology
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Director Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, CI ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women (CEVAW), School of Philosophical, Historical & International Studies (SOPHIS), School of Social Sciences (SOSS), Faculty of Arts, Monash University
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Senior Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia
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Professor, Social Work, Monash University
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Professor and Director, Centre for Research in Educational and Social Inclusion, University of South Australia
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Ilan Katz is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Social Policy, UNSW Sydney
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Professor and Co-Director, Australian Centre Child Protection, University of South Australia
