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Towards real support for all Australian children in kinship care and their carers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2020

Meredith Kiraly Open the ORCID record for Meredith Kiraly [Opens in a new window] ,
Jill Green  and
Tracey Hamilton
Meredith Kiraly*
Affiliation:
Department of Social Work, University of Melbourne, Victoria3010, Australia
Jill Green
Affiliation:
Kinship carer, New South Wales
Tracey Hamilton
Affiliation:
Kinship carer, Queensland
*
Author for correspondence: Meredith Kiraly, Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

The introduction to this article provides a brief overview of current issues in kinship care. This is followed by transcripts of two speeches given by kinship carers at a Kinship Care Forum held in Brisbane in 2020. In these speeches, the speakers described how they became carers, their commitment to the children in their care, the challenges they have faced, the children’s development over time in their care and their struggles to achieve the support they needed.

Keywords

Kinship careout of home carechild protectionchild welfaregrandparents as carers
Type
Commentaries
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Children Australia , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , June 2020 , pp. 97 - 100
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© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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