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Beyond apologies: historical refections on policy and practice relating to the out-of-home care of children in contemporay Australia

Cuthbert, D 2010, 'Beyond apologies: historical refections on policy and practice relating to the out-of-home care of children in contemporay Australia', Children Australia, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 12-17.

Document type: Journal Article
Collection: Journal Articles

Title Beyond apologies: historical refections on policy and practice relating to the out-of-home care of children in contemporay Australia
Author(s) Cuthbert, D
Year 2010
Journal name Children Australia
Volume number 35
Issue number 2
Start page 12
End page 17
Total pages 6
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Abstract A series of harrowing reports across the 1990s on the past removal of children, black and white, from their families have impacted on children and family policy in contemporary Australia, and on the way in which this is reported by the media and understood by the public. This paper briefly surveys some of these consequences and asks how we, as a community, can learn from the past with respect to questions of the welfare of children, without being burdened by that past
Subject Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History)
Social Work not elsewhere classified
Copyright notice © 2010 Author
ISSN 1035-0772
 
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