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Response to Jennifer Lehmann's Reflections on Out-of-Home Care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 December 2015

Karen Broadley
Affiliation:
Child Abuse Prevention Research Australia, Monash Injury Research Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Susan Hunt
Affiliation:
Child Abuse Prevention Research Australia, Monash Injury Research Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Chris Goddard
Affiliation:
Child Abuse Prevention Research Australia, Monash Injury Research Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Extract

Jennifer Lehmann, in her reflections on out-of-home care (OOHC) in the preceding paper, offers an important contribution to this special issue of Children Australia (Lehmann, 2015). We are honoured to be involved and to provide this response.

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