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This Family for Every Child podcast episode explores the context for children and young people with care experience in New Zealand.
Family for Every Child, CEO, Amanda Griffith, is joined by Tracie Shipton and Tupua Urlich from VOYCE-Whakarongo Mai, a new member organisation of the Family for Every Child alliance.
VOYCE-Whakarongo Mai was co-designed by children with care experience, for children with care experience, and exists to advocate for the approximately 6,000 children in New Zealand with care experience (be that foster or kinship (whānau) care).…
Many of Australia's vulnerable children are being looked after full time by a young kinship carer. University of Melbourne researchers estimate at least 50 to 60 thousand people aged under 30 are caring for much younger relatives but don’t receive the recognition that grandparent carers receive. In this podcast episode, University of Melbourne researcher Dr. Meredith Kiraly joins Patricia Karvelas in The Drawing Room along with Nic, who is the full-time carer of her 2 year old nephew.
This brief radio segment from ABC Radio News describes a promising program to reunite children and their parents that will be implemented in South Australia. The program, which has shown success in the state of New South Wales, Australia, "is underpinned by a Social Impact Bond, which relies on socially aware investors to finance programs like this one, which pay dividends based on their success."
In this episode of Nightlife, the hosts talk to three young people who spent their founding years in foster care. The young people discuss the challenges they faced and how the system can be improved.
This podcast episode by Tiny Spark explores how the surge in orphanage volunteers may lead to child trafficking and asks who is benefitting from these experiences: vulnerable children or foreign volunteers? The episode also seeks to discover better alternatives for those who want to do good in the world through short-term volunteer opportunities. The podcast features interviews with Weh Yeoh (CEO & Co-Founder of Umbo and Founder, OIC Cambodia) a former orphanage volunteer from Australia, anti-trafficking advocate Sophie Otiende of Kenya, and …
In this radio episode of Focus from ABC Radio Perth, the host Jessica Strutt - along with Australian Senator Linda Reynolds and Dr Fiona McGaughey, Co-convenor UWA Modern Slavery Research Network - discuss the recent passage of Australia's Modern Slavery Act, which includes a recognition of orphanage trafficking as a form of modern slavery. The episode describes the ways in which for-profit orphanages in developing contexts "deliberately use children as a tourist attraction, making a profit off vulnerable and poor kids and their families." To those listeners considering volunteering…
This radio segment from ABC News Australia examines a current adoption debate in Australia. "Adoptees and child safety experts are urging the Federal Government to 'slow' its efforts to make adopting a child easier in Australia," says ABC. "A parliamentary inquiry is investigating why, out of the tens of thousands of children in out-of-home care, only a couple of hundred are adopted each year. Many of the inquiry's submissions say the low rate is a good thing, but others are urging a reduction in red tape."
The segment includes interviews with an adult adoptee, a woman who sought to…
Next month, Australia's Northern Territory Royal Commission will report findings from its investigation into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory and offer recommendations for the youth justice and child protection systems. In this PM Radio story, the family of an indigenous teen placed in residential care who recently took her own life calls on the government to prioritize kinship care placements in its upcoming recommendations.
World Challenge announced that it will no longer be offering orphanage volunteer placements overseas for students; in this radio interview, Kate van Doore explains why institutional care is harmful to children and how orphanage volunteering perpetuates and contributes to the harm children experience in institutions.
In this radio interview, Leigh Mathews of ReThink Orphanages discusses why orphanage volunteering is harmful to the development of children and provides tips for those seeking international volunteering opportunities.