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To understand what is working well and not so well in out-of-home care, CREATE developed a survey based on the National Standards for Out-of-Home Care (National Standards). The National Standards were written by the Australian Government and include areas that are important to the wellbeing of all children and young people in care. These areas include things like participation, education, health, being connected to family and heaps more.
It’s been five years since CREATE did their first survey, so CREATE wanted to do a follow-up survey to see whether things are better, worse, or have…
Out-of-home care in Australia: children and young people’s views after 5 years of national standards
In 2013, CREATE used the National Standards for Out-of-Home Care (National Standards) to produce it its first comprehensive survey on the out-of-home care system. This survey analysed findings from 1069 children and young people with a care experience on their life in care into a report titled Experiencing Out-of-Home Care in Australia: The Views of Children and Young People. In 2015, the Government also did their own survey also using the National Standards to see what needed to be improved in child protection systems…
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The United Nation Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) recognizes that children in out of home care are entitled to special protection to promote their physical and psychological recovery. The Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children, which are intended to enhance implementation of the UNCRC, also acknowledge the importance of transitional and aftercare support. The Chapter explore progress towards realizing the rights of young people in and leaving out of home care in Australia, Sweden and the UK. The emerging picture is that in all these…
This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Committee on the Rights of the Child.
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This article discusses the involvement in the New South Wales criminal justice system of a cohort of children in out-of-home care. The paper reports the findings of a four-year research project that investigated the relationship between the child welfare and justice systems as experienced by a cohort of children in the New South Wales Children’s Court criminal jurisdiction. Analysis of 160 case files identified that children in out-of-home care appeared before the Children’s Court on criminal charges at disproportionate rates compared to children who were not in…
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Children in out-of-home care have well-documented health and developmental needs. Research suggests that Aboriginal children in care have unmet health and intervention needs. In metropolitan Sydney, Kari Aboriginal Resources Inc. (KARI), an Aboriginal organization, provides support to indigenous children in care, including clinical assessment and intervention. We wanted to determine the health and developmental needs of a subset of children in out-of-home care with KARI, who had been in stable care for at least a year. We wanted to identify child,…
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Children who enter care are frequently from families who are disadvantaged economically, socially and emotionally. Such disadvantage often co-exists with other risk factors including a history of abuse as well as socio-cultural differences such as being from minority of an Indigenous background where there can be additional issues such as social marginalisation or prejudice. Care systems can often compound these problems by exposing children to further loss and disruption or unstable placements, and often struggle in returning children home to parents experiencing a high burden of…
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The Children and Young Persons Act (2008) places a duty on Local Authorities to accommodate siblings together in care, so far as is reasonably practicable and subject to welfare considerations. Existing reviews of the evidence support the coplacement of siblings in care, unless there is a justifiable, child-centred reason for separation. Five years ago, an Ofsted (2012) survey in England of more than 2000 looked after children found that nearly two thirds (63%) of the youngsters had at least one sibling also in care, yet 71% of these children were not in the same…
This article investigates the current leaving care and post-care supports that are available to Indigenous care leavers. According to the article, Indigenous care leavers seem to face particular challenges, including poor educational experiences, disproportionate levels of involvement with the youth criminal justice system, high levels of early pregnancy, varying levels of connection to their cultures and communities, and a loss of identity. The researchers in this article used focus groups to investigate its questions and conclusions.
This document identifies the causes of the…
Recognizing the need for a consistent and standardized framework for the provision of child protection services, the Government of Western Australia’s Department for Child Protection established the following tool. The Department has a legislative role in safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of children, and to provide for their protection and care in circumstances where their parents have not given, or are unlikely or unable to give, that protection and care. In recognition of this responsibility, it became evident that the sector would be best suited by one set of standards applicable…