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ItemNo Preview AvailableDeveloping Practice (Special Kinship Care Issue No.2) (Vol 52)(Association of Childrens Welfare Agencies and NSW Family Services, 2019)The second of two special issues on kinship care.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableDeveloping Practice (Special Kinship Care Issue No.1) (Vol. 51).(Association of Childrens Welfare Agencies and NSW Family Services, 2018)The first of two special issues on kinship care.
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ItemEditorial: Australian Children in Kinship Care–Hidden in Plain Sight?(Association of Childrens Welfare Agencies and NSW Family Services Inc., 2018)This is the Editorial to the first of two Special Issues of Developing Practice devoted to kinship care. It describes the 2018 ACWA project Kinship Care: Making it a National Issue and its various elements. It also outlines some things that are known and not known about kinship care, myths about kinship care that have sprung up in place of knowledge, and the depth of unmet support needs of kin children and their carers.
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ItemEditorial: Beyond Poverty and Disadvantage–Achieving Wellbeing for all Australian Children in Kinship Care(Association of Childrens Welfare Agencies and NSW Family Services Inc., 2019)This is the second of two Special Issues on kinship care. Here I explore ways forward to address kin children’s wellbeing from a human rights perspective.
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ItemBaby on Board: Report of the Infants in Care and Family Contact Research Project(Alfred Felton Research Program, 2009)
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ItemFamily Contact for Children in Kinship Care: A Literature Review(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2013-09-01)
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Item'It's a Family Responsibility': Family and Cultural Connection for Aboriginal Children in Kinship Care(CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2015-03-01)Kinship care as a form of protective care in Australia has grown considerably over the past decade. The University of Melbourne Family Links: Kinship Care and Family Contact research project comprised a survey of kinship carers and consultations with key stakeholders. Given the significant over-representation of Indigenous children in kinship care arrangements, the project included a nested study of Indigenous kinship care. Research participants stressed the imperative for Indigenous children to be connected to family, community and culture. However, survey responses indicated that in many cases, family and cultural connections were not being assisted by cultural support planning. Indigenous caseworkers described the complexities of facilitating family contact, highlighting good practice as well as dilemmas and shortcomings in culturally sensitive practice. There was much evidence of the straitened circumstances of Indigenous kinship carers and unmet support needs among carers, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous. Suggestions are made about ways in which children in kinship care might be better supported to maintain their family relationships.