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We surveyed 232 foster and kinship carers who had provided care to a baby in out-of-home care sometime in the last five years. Many were not well supported to care for babies.
Attendance at school is crucial to improving educational outcomes for students. Unfortunately, children in out-of-home care face myriad challenges when it comes to attending school every day.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are increasingly being removed from their families and placed into out-of-home care, raising concerns of another Stolen Generation.
Our study of Indigenous young people leaving out-of-home care has identified major deficits in programs designed to help them transition to adulthood.
Indigenous children are admitted to out-of-home care at 11 times the rate for non-Indigenous children. The lack of safe housing for mothers fleeing family violence is a key factor.
One of the state’s most significant powers is the ability to remove children from their families. Potential reforms in NSW could expand this already racialised power in frightening ways.
Young people leaving out-of-home care aren’t receiving the support they need to further their educations and transition successfully to adulthood.
New research shows that, too often, grandparents who are primary carers are being locked out of decisions about their grandchildren’s welfare.
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Deputy Director (Research) Peter Underwood Centre, University of Tasmania
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Professor & Director, Centre for Aboriginal Medical and Dental Health (CAMDH), The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer Social Work, Monash University
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Associate Professor, College of Arts, Society & Education, James Cook University
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Scientia Associate Professor, School of Law, Society & Criminology, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, Director Social Inclusion and Social Policy Research Unit, Monash University
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Associate Professor, University of Tasmania
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Professor and Director, Centre for Research in Educational and Social Inclusion, University of South Australia
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Monash University
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Indigenous Fellow Academic Development | School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Public Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Daryl Higgins is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor & Director, Institute of Child Protection Studies, Australian Catholic University
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Deputy Director Translational Research and Social Innovation Group at the Ingham Institute, Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University
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Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology
