Project Speakout: An ongoing project started in N.S.W. during IYC

1979 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 11-28
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Special Concern ◽  
Children In Care ◽  
Ongoing Project

The Project is based on a project conducted in Britain, where children in care were invited by the National Children's Bureau in London to attend a one day conference in 1975 to talk about matters of special concern to them. A group of children who attended the conference eventually published a book called “Who Cares? Young People in Care Speak Out” which reported on residential care as the children saw it. This book is locally available, and prompted the idea that a similar project might be carried out in New South Wales during the International Year of the Child. Information was sought and readily obtained from the National Children's Bureau in London about the “Who Cares” project.

Group Homes for Children and Young People: The Problem Not the Solution

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Ainsworth ◽  
Patricia Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Group Homes ◽  
Integrated Treatment ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
South Wales ◽  
High Staff Turnover ◽  
Therapeutic Care

In every state and territory in Australia, child welfare departments, under various names, maintain or, alternatively, fund group homes for children and young people in the non-government sector. Increasingly, these group homes offer only four places with no integrated treatment or educational services. In that respect they can best be viewed as providing care and accommodation only. Since 2010, following the release of a definition of therapeutic residential care by the National Therapeutic Residential Care Work Group, there has been debate about how to make group homes therapeutic. In 2017, as part of a wider reform effort, New South Wales renamed all their out-of-home care (foster care and residential care) as intensive therapeutic care and ceased using the term residential. The net result is that the group homes in New South Wales will from now on be referred to as intensive therapeutic care homes. This article raises questions about the utility of this renaming and explores whether or not group homes can be therapeutic given the characteristics of the population of children and young people they accommodate, their small size, the staffing complement and the limited job satisfaction with high staff turnover as a consequence of this smallness. All of these factors lead to the well-documented, anti-therapeutic instability of the group home life space.

The New South Wales Community Welfare Act 1982 and Foster Parents

1983 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 6-11
Author(s):  
Richard Chisholm
Keyword(s):  
Foster Parents ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
General Overview ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Special Concern ◽  
The Government

The Community Welfare Act 1982 was passed by the New South Wales Parliament and received Royal Assent on 25 May 1982. However, it is not yet in force: the Act itself provides that it will come into force on a day appointed by the Governor and notified by proclamation. This means it can come into force when the government decides that it should. It is possible for parts of it to be brought into force at different times.The Act is long and complex. Rather than attempt a general overview of it, this paper will consider what the Act says on issues of special concern to foster parents.

scholarly journals Building evidence into youth health policy: a case study of the access 3 knowledge translation forum

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Waller ◽  
Fiona Robards ◽  
Carmen Huckel Schneider ◽  
Lena Sanci ◽  
Katharine Steinbeck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
Young People ◽  
Knowledge Translation ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Youth Health ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
South Wales

Abstract Background Effective integration of research evidence and youth perspectives into policy is crucial for supporting the future health and wellbeing of young people. The aim of this project was to translate findings from the Access 3 research studies to support development of a new state policy on youth health and wellbeing within New South Wales, Australia. Ensuring the active contribution of young people within policy development was a key objective of the knowledge translation process. Methods The knowledge translation activity consisted of a one-day facilitated workshop with 64 purposively sampled stakeholders. Participants included eight young people, fourteen policymakers, fifteen academics, twenty-two clinicians or managers from New South Wales (NSW) health services, four general practitioners and one mental health service worker. The design of the workshop was guided by the knowledge translation frameworks of Lavis et al [1] and Grimshaw et al [2]. Research findings to be translated came from the NSW Access 3 studies. Participant satisfaction with the workshop was evaluated using a brief self-report survey. Policy uptake was examined through exploratory document analysis of the subsequent NSW Youth Health Framework 2017-2024. Results A total of twenty-five policy recommendations were established through the workshop and these were grouped into six themes. The six policy themes were: 1) Technology solutions, 2) Integrated care and investment to build capacity, 3) Adolescent health checks, 4) Workforce, 5) Youth participation, and 6) Youth health indicators. Forum members were asked to vote on the importance of individual recommendations. These policy recommendations were subsequently presented to the NSW Ministry of Health with some evidence of policy uptake identified. The majority of participants rated the forum positively. Conclusions The utilisation of knowledge translation theories and active youth engagement led to the successful transfer of research evidence and youth perspectives into NSW youth health policy. Future research should examine the implementation of policy arising from these knowledge translation efforts.

Corporal punishment in New South Wales: A call for repeal of section 61AA

2021 ◽  
pp. 1037969X2110555
Author(s):  
Laetitia-Ann Greeff
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Corporal Punishment ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
South Wales

Corporal punishment is lawful in the home in all Australian states and territories. In early 2021, the Tasmanian Commissioner for Children and Young People called for a repeal of s 50 of the Criminal Code Act 1924 (Tas) which permits the use of corporal punishment in the home, noting that society had moved on from the regular canings of the early 20th century when the law was passed. This article supports the call to abolish the defence of reasonable chastisement (lawful correction in NSW) by repealing s 61AA of the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW) so that children can have the same protections from physical violence as adults.

Changing pattern of sexually transmissible infections and HIV diagnosed in public sexual health services compared with other locations in New South Wales, 2010–14

Sexual Health ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Bourne ◽  
Meeyin Lam ◽  
Christine Selvey ◽  
Rebecca Guy ◽  
Denton Callander
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Sexual Health ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Bisexual Men ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Sexually Transmissible Infections ◽  
Annual Proportion ◽  
Priority Population

Background In Australia, testing and treatment for HIV and other sexually transmissible infections (STIs) is usually managed in general practice, while publicly funded sexual health clinics (PFSHC) attract people at higher risk for infection. The proportion of HIV and STI diagnoses in New South Wales (NSW) occurring in PFSHC stratified by priority population was investigated. Methods: From 2010 to 2014, NSW notification frequencies for chlamydia, gonorrhoea, infectious syphilis, and HIV were compared with the number of diagnoses in PFSHC. The annual proportion of diagnoses at PFSHC was calculated and Wilcoxon rank-sum tests assessed trends. Diagnoses from PFSHC were also organised by priority population, including gay and bisexual men (GBM), people living with HIV, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people who use injecting drugs, sex workers and young people. Results: The annual proportion of HIV and STIs diagnosed at PFSHC increased (all P < 0.001): chlamydia from 12% to 15%, gonorrhoea 23% to 38%, infectious syphilis 21% to 40% and HIV 22% to 30%. Overall, the majority of all infections diagnosed at PFSHC were among GBM, with the proportional distribution of chlamydia increasing from 32% to 46% among GBM (P < 0.001) and decreasing among young people (50% to 40%; P < 0.001). There were no other significant changes by population or infection at PFSHC. Conclusions: Increasing proportions of STI and HIV are being diagnosed at NSW PFSHC, mostly among GBM. PFSHC reorientation to priority populations continues to make a large and increasing contribution to STI and HIV control efforts in NSW.

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