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ItemNonfamilial kinship carers-Who are they and what support do they need to nurture children?(WILEY, 2019-11)Abstract There is a growing body of literature about kinship care in the Western world; however, much of it focuses on grandparent care. A lesser known aspect of kinship care is the care of children by nonrelatives known to the child or their family. What little research exists about this group suggests that such placements are less stable than familial kinship care. This article reports a research study in Victoria, Australia, that explored nonfamilial kinship care through analysis of administrative data, interviews with young people and carers, and focus groups with kinship care support workers. It emerged that current administrative databases are not yet able to reliably identify the carer relationship, and thus the extent of such care arrangements cannot accurately be determined. Interviews and focus groups revealed that nonfamilial kinship care is diverse and qualitatively different from familial kinship care, bearing some similarities to foster care yet managed very differently. It is suggested that policymakers need to pay more attention to conceptualizing nonfamilial kinship care within kinship care policy frameworks and that greater attention is needed to the individual support needs of children in such placements and their carers.
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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.