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Child Welfare and the Disabled — Is the Battle for Justice Really Being Fought?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2016

Barbara Szwarc
Barbara Szwarc*
Affiliation:
Victorian Children's Aid Society
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Abstract

This paper is based on the latest findings of the Children's Bureau of Australia recently released study entitled Particular Care Reconsidered by Barbara Szwarc. The Study, being a follow-up to the 1979 Report by N.J. Smith and G. Gregory entitled Particular Care was based on an Australia wide survey conducted in June 1984 on all children living in Non-Government Childrens Homes and Foster Care. Particular concentration in the study has been given to children in disadvantageous positions.

Also referred to in this paper is another report by Barbara Swarcz on A Study Into The Victorian Children's Aid Society Respite Care Program During the 1985-86 Holiday Period. This report was based primarily on the perceptions of parents of the children who used the program.

Of particular concern in this paper is the amount of undue injustice and inequality that such children and their families suffer just because their children are disabled.

Type
Research Article
Information
Children Australia , Volume 11 , Issue 2-3 , 1987 , pp. 5 - 7
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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References

Gregory, G & Smith, N.S. (1982) 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, The Children's Bureau of Australia.Google Scholar
Szwarc, B. (1986) A Study into the Holiday Respite Care Programme Run by the Victorian Children's Aid Society during the 1985-86 Holiday Period. Victorian Children's Aid Society.Google Scholar
Szwarc, B. (1985) Particular Care Reconsidered - the Follow-up Report of the 1979 Survey into Non-Government Children's Homes and Foster Care - 30th June, 1984. The Children's Bureau of Australia Inc.Google Scholar