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Australian Children in Substitute Care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2016

John Edwards ,
Graeme Gregory  and
Denis Oakley
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In 1979, the Children’s Bureau of Australia, a non-government research and advocacy body, undertook a national survey of substitute family care provided by non-government child care agencies. The report of the Survey, “Particular Care” was published by the Bureau early in 1982.

For the first time in Australia, comprehensive data is available on children being cared for in children’s homes, foster care, and homes for physically and intellectually handicapped children. While the study was restricted to non-government organizations, these organizations in fact care for more children than do government agencies; indications are that the picture obtained in the survey would also be typical of that for government sponsored care.

Type
Research Article
Information
Children Australia , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , 1983 , pp. 10 - 14
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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References

(1) Gregory, G. and Smith, N.J., Particular Care – The Report of the National Survey of Non-government Children’s Homes and Foster Care – including Homes for Physically and Intellectually Handicapped Children, 30th June, 1979, (Children’s Bureau of Australia, 1982.)

(2) Annual Report 1979 – 80, Department of Youth & Community Services, New South Wales. Annual Report 1979 – 80, Department of Community Welfare Services, Victoria.

(3) B.A. English, “Children in Lone Parent Families”, Australian Child & Family Welfare, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1979.