While awareness of institutional child sexual abuse has grown in recent years, there
remains limited understanding of its occurrence and outcomes as a distinct form of abuse …

Both historical and contemporary residential care for children have been found to present
risks to their safety and security. Views about the characteristics of workers that helped them …

This article discusses the involvement in the New South Wales criminal justice system of a
cohort of children in out-of-home care. The paper reports the findings of a four-year research …

Background Placement stability is an important indicator of the functioning of an out-of-home
care system. Previous research suggests that frequent placement changes have a negative …

Critical multicultural practice, rather than being a specialism, is integral to Australian social
work. Drawing on critical race theory, critical multiculturalism, intersectionality and critical …

The decision of the Gillard government to establish a royal commission in 2012 was
acclaimed by care leavers. However, they were soon disillusioned: it was not the royal …

This article draws on the lived experiences and perspectives of young people and
practitioners in therapeutic residential care to examine what constitutes relationship-based …

This research explored the experiences of care leavers, who lived in institutions (such as
Children's Homes and orphanages) or other forms of out-of-home care between 1930 and …

Objectives To explore perceptions and expectations regarding aged care among older
Forgotten Australians, informing better ways of delivering safe and inclusive care for this …

Law's imaginary and logics are notoriously limited in their ways of thinking through and
adjudicating sexual violence. The# MeToo movement is in large part a public, extra-legal …