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A Four-Nation Comparison of Kinship Care in the UK: The Relationship between Formal Kinship Care and Deprivation

Social Policy and Society, 2018
The practice of extended family and friends helping to care for children when their parents are unable to is an enduring tradition in many cultures. Kinship care provides the largest proportion of out of home care in Western society but many of these ...
C. McCartan, Lisa Bunting, P. Bywaters, G. Davidson, Martin Elliott, J. Hooper   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Disrupting Child Sexual Exploitation in New South Wales: A Mixed‐Method Survey Exploring Workforce Capacities

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Child sexual exploitation (CSE) is an insidious form of child sexual abuse (CSA) that impacts Australia's most vulnerable children and young people. Reports of CSE abuses experienced by children and young people living in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) have spurred urgent calls for improving responses to CSE in Australia.
Sarah Ciftci, Hannah Wilkinson, Susan Heward‐Belle   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

I Wanted to Be Able to Stand on My Own Two Feet First—Younger Parents Exiting Homelessness and Care and Their Aspirations

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This qualitative study examines the aspirations, motivations and support needs of 15 young parents in South Australia with experiences of out‐of‐home care (OOHC) or homelessness. Most participants aimed to delay parenting to achieve financial stability, education and personal development, but faced unplanned pregnancies due to inadequate ...
Tim Moore, Stewart McDougall
wiley   +1 more source

Building a Culture of Voice and Agency for Aboriginal Children in Out‐of‐Home Care: A Review of Policy in New South Wales and Victoria

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aboriginal children and young people in out‐of‐home care (OOHC), like all children and young people, have a fundamental right to be involved in decisions that affect them, to be afforded the opportunity for a voice, and to have that voice taken seriously.
Bradley Burns, Rebekah Grace, Scott Avery   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gender and Empowerment: Contemporary Lakota Women of Rosebud [PDF]

, 2004
Western-European stereotypes still permeate Plains Indian culture suggesting that women were passive and subjugated while men were dominant warriors.
Mello, Christina G.
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Culturally Safe Assistive Technology Provision in Australia: Concept Mapping Perspectives From Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disparities in Assistive Technology (AT) access exist for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples despite recent policy reforms. This paper brings together First Nations and Western academic ways of being, knowing and doing to deliver an AT practice analysis based upon primary data from two research reports into the cultural safety of AT
Shane Hearn, Vanessa Langenberg, Kristy Harper, Libby Callaway, Hilary O'Connell, Eleanor Kennett‐Smith, Natasha Layton   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Owning Home, Finding Belonging: Relational Meanings of Homeownership for Migrant Healthcare Workers in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
wiley   +1 more source

“They Finally See Me, They Trust Me, My Brother’s Coming Home” Recognising the Motivations and Role of Siblings Who Become Kinship Carers

Societies
Despite a widespread focus on grandparents, a large proportion of kinship care in the UK is provided by older siblings. What drives older siblings to become kinship carers, and how this might differ from other kinship carers, is not well represented in ...
Lorna Stabler
doaj   +1 more source

Children 'in need of care' or in need of cash? Questioning social security provisions for orphans in the context of the South African AIDS pandemic [PDF]

, 2003
Joint working paper of the Children's Institute and Centre for Actuarial Research, University of Cape ...
Meintjes, Helen, Budlender, Debbie, Giese, Sonja, Johnson, Leigh   +3 more
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Regulating Reprogenetics: Strategic Sacralisation and Semantic Message [PDF]

, 2007
This paper forms part of the feminist critique of the regulatory consequences of biomedicine's systematic exclusion of the role of women's bodies in the development ofreprogenetic technologies.
Mackenzie, Robin
core   +1 more source