Child Migration: Lessons for Today
What can we learn from the mass movement of children to other countries?
Australia
Kinship care and well-being
Children and young people speak out about contact with their families
“We have no choice” – the challenge of kinship care
Stability and continuity of care for the children, but sometimes there’s a price to pay
Oranges and Sunshine
A film to see, about child migration: unglamorised, unexaggerated and sobering
Constructing Training for Human Services Professionals: A Commentary
A commentary on professionalisation and the impact of new technology
Forward to the Past: A Return to Victoriana and Male Dominance
There can be little argument and debate that Westernised societies are patriarchal and are dominated by male power and control. This patriarchalism is powerfully enforced and reinforced in those societies by governments, political parties, religions, the judiciary and legal professions, and the media which are all male-dominated. In consequence women and children are oppressed and … Read more
Editorial : The Point of Apologies
A simple gesture, well meant and well received, but what about the ramifications?
News Views
Including leaving care, records, creating villages out of gangs, goodenoughcaring, residential care in Australia, Interconnections, electrical danger zones, teenagers and good news about fees
The Search for Therapeutic Residential Care
I recently spent some time in Australia and contributed to three child care conferences with a particular focus on residential care. It was striking to discover that many agencies wanted to explore what constituted ‘therapeutic’ residential care. This was a particular focus for the people in Victoria State (which includes Melbourne). There the Government has … Read more