Book Review: Early Intervention for Children with Disabilities: The Australian Experience. M. Pieterse, S. Bochner, & S. Bettison. New South Wales, Australia: Macquarie University, 1988. 399 pp. $35.00 hard cover

1990 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-89
Author(s):  
R.A. McWilliam
Keyword(s):  
Early Intervention ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Australian Experience ◽  
Hard Cover

Refocusing on Early Intervention and Family Support: A Review of Child Welfare Reforms in New South Wales, Australia

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harriet Churchill ◽  
Barbara Fawcett
Keyword(s):  
Early Intervention ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Resource Constraints ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Public Health Approach ◽  
Family Services ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Welfare Reforms

Since 2000, the New South Wales (NSW) Government in Australia has pursued major child welfare reforms. Responding to the ‘crisis in child protection’ and informed by a public health approach, key aims were to prevent child maltreatment and promote child welfare by ‘expanding and enhancing early intervention and family services’. This article critically reviews the aims, approach and main developments in NSW. The article argues that in several respects the reforms extended and enhanced early intervention and family services in cost-effective ways but suffered from implementation problems, limitations in service developments and major reform challenges which inhibited their scope and impacts. These limitations raise critical issues about the reform framework, resource constraints and ideological influences.

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