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Residential care – at the frontline of practice …: Views from Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2012

Lisa Hillan ,
Helen Burt  and
Nick Halfpenny
Lisa Hillan
Affiliation:
Save the Children Australia – Queensland Division Chair Child and Family Welfare Association of Australia
Helen Burt
Affiliation:
MacKillop Family Services, Melbourne
Nick Halfpenny
Affiliation:
MacKillop Family Services, Melbourne
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Children Australia , Volume 33 , Issue 2: SPECIAL EDITION: The future of residential care in Australia , 2008 , pp. 48 - 52
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