Voices of Children and Young People in Foster Care, Report from a consultation with children and young people in foster care in New South Wales, Community Services Commission NSW July 2000

2000 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 45-45
Author(s):  
Lloyd Owen
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Young People ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
South Wales

Programs for high needs children and young people: Group homes are not enough

2008 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Ainsworth ◽  
Patricia Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Young People ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Group Homes ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Residential Programs ◽  
South Wales ◽  
High Staff Turnover

Recently the Department of Community Services in New South Wales and the Department for Child Safety in Queensland have both released information about funding and the award of contracts for group homes and other residential services. In addition, in the 2008 discussion about out-of-home care at the Wood Commission of Inquiry into the Child Protection Services in New South Wales, group homes were discussed in terms of them being less demanding environments than foster care. The view presented was that group homes are appropriate for some young people who are either unsuitable for foster care or who want a less intimate setting than that provided by foster care. This article argues that group homes or residential programs, against the New South Wales and Queensland descriptions, fail to respond to the need for quality residential programs for children and youth. This is partly due to the low level of training for staff in group homes and high staff turnover.

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.

A scaffold for participation in agency work

2003 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 30-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth C. Reimer
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Human Services ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Practice Models

The following summary of a literature review on children and young people's participation in the welfare sector was written in response to a need to understand this concept within the context of human services work in New South Wales. This need became apparent through work being done at UnitingCare Burnside around children and young people's participation. Examination of the literature on participation revealed an increase in discussion around the issues. While this has included exploration of definitions, history, practice, models and factors enhancing effective participative practice, there has been a dearth of writing linking these. The literature review attempted to provide a scaffold that could be used to support agency workers as they attempt to build meaningful, effective, strong and reciprocal partnerships with children and young people. This concise summary of the literature review has sought to highlight the major supports found to provide a scaffold for participative agency practice with children and young people.

scholarly journals ‘It's all about the Benjamins’: Infringement notices and young people in New South Wales

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 253-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Brown ◽  
Chris Cunneen ◽  
Sophie Russell
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
South Wales

This article provides a brief analysis of the place, role and purpose of monetary penalties and their theoretical underpinnings. Against this critique of financial penalties and the revenue ('the Benjamins') 1 that flows from penalty infringement notices, the article examines the six-fold growth in penalty infringement notices 2 issued to children and young people in NSW between 1998 and 2013. It outlines the disproportionate impact of monetary penalties on them and the increasing displacement of diversionary options, raising questions about the appropriateness of issuing infringement notices to children and young people. This article also addresses positive developments in relation to children and young people, including the introduction of Work and Development Orders (WDOs) in NSW.

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.

Rescission or Variation of Children's Court Orders: A Study of Section 90 Applications in New South Wales

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Hansen
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Parental Responsibility ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Court Orders ◽  
Children's Court ◽  
Children’S Court

This article reports on a study of Children's Court files relating to completed applications for variation of care orders (section 90 applications) in three specialised Children's Courts in New South Wales. All files that could be located for completed applications were reviewed and nonidentifying data was recorded. The study attempted to examine the type of applications, the characteristics of applicants and the outcomes of the applications. One hundred and seventeen applications were reviewed: almost half of these were made by the then Department of Community Services (DoCS), and about the same proportion of applications were made by parents. After the section 90 applications were determined there was an increase in care orders allocating parental responsibility to the Minister for Community Services with 73% of the children placed under the care of the minister to age 18.

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