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Arnull, Elaine, and Stacey Stewart. "Developing a Theoretical Framework to Discuss Mothers Experiencing Domestic Violence and Being Subject to Interventions: A Cross-National Perspective." International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 10, no. 2 (June 1, 2021): 113–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.1561.

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The discourse about domestic violence has developed in patriarchal societies, and so we position our understanding of ‘mother’ within a patriarchal framework. We explore the ways in which ‘mothering’ and ‘mother blame’ have been constructed within that framework and how this becomes relevant in the context of domestic violence and child welfare social work. We review literature from Australia, Canada, England and Wales, and the United States of America that has focused on child welfare responses to mothers experiencing domestic violence and abuse. On the basis of that review, we argue that mothers are responsibilised for violence and abuse they do not perpetrate. We show that the way legislation operates in some jurisdictions facilitates hegemonic, patriarchal constructions. We call for a review of current child welfare social work policy and practice in which domestic violence is present.
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Gál, Róbert Iván, Pieter Vanhuysse, and Lili Vargha. "Pro-elderly welfare states within child-oriented societies." Journal of European Public Policy 25, no. 6 (March 22, 2018): 944–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2017.1401112.

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Swain, Shurlee. "Derivative and indigenous in the history and historiography of child welfare in Australia: Part One." Children Australia 26, no. 4 (2001): 4–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200010415.

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This article traces the history of child welfare in Australia, showing the ways in which policies and practices, deriving primarily from Britain, were adopted and adapted in a nation in which jurisdiction was split between colonies/states and further divided, within states, on the basis of race. It argues that child welfare has always been part of the nation-building project, central to national objectives when children could be constructed as future citizens, marginal, and more punitive, when they were more easily understood as threats to social stability. In this first part it examines the history of welfare provision for non-indigenous children in Australia from 1788 to 1939. The second part, to be published in a subsequent issue, will discuss post-war developments in services for non-indigenous children, indigenous child welfare services and the historiography of child welfare in Australia.
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Constantine, Stephen. "The British government, child welfare, and child migration to Australia after 1945." Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 30, no. 1 (January 2002): 99–132. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03086530208583135.

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Parton, Nigel. "An ‘authoritarian neoliberal’ approach to child welfare and protection?" Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work 28, no. 2 (August 18, 2016): 7–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol28iss2id219.

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Recent years have seen significant changes in the organisation and focus of children’s services in many advanced ‘western’ societies. While this has varied in different jurisdictions (see for example Gilbert, Parton Skivenes, 2011), we can identify one set of developments which have become increasingly evident in certain countries and which is perhaps illustrated at its sharpest in England with the emergence of, what I call, an authoritarian neoliberal approach to child welfare and protection (Parton, 2014).
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Wharf, Brian. "Preventing Out of Home Placements." Children Australia 16, no. 3 (1991): 15–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200013195.

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The following article by Professor Brian Wharf is based on programs operating in the USA. There are some signs of placement prevention programs being embraced by government bodies and non-government child welfare agencies in Australia and in Canada. His experience of developments in Australia, during a recent visit, prompted him to put forward this article for publication in Children Australia. There appears to be a remarkable similarity of interests between child welfare issues in Australia and Canada, particularly round the question of whether protection and prevention services should be integrated or provided by separate agencies or departments. Children Australia hopes this will be the first in a series of exchanges between Australia and Canada.
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Swain, Shurlee. "Derivative and indigenous in the history and historiography of child welfare in Australia: Part Two." Children Australia 27, no. 1 (2002): 5–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200004909.

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This article traces the history of child welfare in Australia, showing the ways in which policies and practices, deriving primarily from Britain, were adopted and adapted in a nation in which jurisdiction was split between colonies/states and further divided, within states, on the basis of race. It argues that child welfare has always been part of the nation-building project, central to national objectives when children could be constructed as future citizens, marginal, and more punitive, when they were more easily understood as threats to social stability. In this second part, it discusses post-war developments in services for non-indigenous children, and indigenous child welfare services. It concludes with a discussion of the historiography of child welfare in Australia arguing that because, to date, historical writing has concentrated on localised or specialist studies, child welfare professionals have limited access to an understanding of the history of the systems within which they work.
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Pitman, Tony. "Children Australia: A proud past and an exciting future." Children Australia 35, no. 4 (2010): 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200001218.

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Children Australia is entering a new and exciting era in its development. After some 35 years as an academic and practice-oriented publication, the Journal is now set to continue this tradition, but also to broaden its scope in response to the increasing complexity of working with children, young people and their families and carers.Over nearly four decades, we have enjoyed the support of a number of organisations, key activists in the field and practitioners. Established in 1976 under the title of Australian Child and Family Welfare, the Journal was published by the Children's Welfare Association in Victoria as the quarterly journal of the Child and Family Welfare Council of Australia and funded by the Children's Welfare Foundation. Publication of the journal coincided with a number of key policy changes through the 1970s, and in 1979, during the International Year of the Child, it addressed a range of themes that were paramount in the minds of academics and practitioners both in Australia and overseas. The 1980s saw new challenges in the sector, computerisation, the amalgamations of a range of children's agencies, and devolution of services from government in to the non-Government sector, together with major economic change. By the late 1980s, Australia was in recession and many in the sector were facing major organisational changes, particularly in Victoria under the Kennett government.
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Tilbury, Clare, and June Thoburn. "Children in out-of-home care in Australia: International comparisons." Children Australia 33, no. 3 (2008): 5–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200000262.

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As governments increasingly search globally for strategies to improve child welfare outcomes, it is vital to consider how policies and programs developed in other countries are likely to suit local conditions. Routinely collected child welfare administrative data can provide contextual information for cross-national comparisons. This article examines out-of-home care in Australia compared to other developed countries, and explores possible explanations for differences in patterns and trends. In doing so, it also examines the similarities and differences between NSW, Victoria and Queensland. It is argued that a sound understanding of how out-of-home care is used, the profile of children in care and the influences on data can assist policy makers to match proposed solutions to clearly understood current problems. The imperative is to plan and implement policies and programs that locate out-of-home care within a range of child welfare services that meet the diverse needs of children and families within local contexts.
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Podberscek, A. L. "Illuminating Issues of Companion Animal Welfare Through Research into Human-Animal Interactions." Animal Welfare 6, no. 4 (November 1997): 365–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0962728600020078.

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Companion or pet animals are an integral part of many societies. Ownership rates of at least one pet for every two households (50%) have been reported in numerous countries, including the UK (Pet Food Manufacturers’ Association 1996), The Netherlands (Endenburg et al 1990), Poland (Fogle 1994), the USA (Rowan 1992), France (Anon 1995a) and Australia (Anon 1995b). While on one hand the animals gain from their close association with humans by being sheltered, fed and loved, they can also suffer neglect, cruelty, abandonment, unnecessary euthanasia, and may develop behaviour problems. The quality of our relationships with these animals is indeed variable.
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Jewell, Trevor. "Martu tjitji pakani : Martu child rearing and its implications for the child welfare system." University of Western Australia. Social Work and Social Policy Discipline Group, 2009. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2009.0147.

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In this research, I explore my belief that one the reasons for the continuing poor outcomes for Indigenous people was that State-wide and national programs ignored unique local Indigenous culture and did not actively involve local Indigenous people in the development of programs for their area. I chose to examine this perception through investigation of the tension between Indigenous culture and worldview and the dominant White values of the child welfare system (broadly defined), through description of Martu child rearing practices and beliefs in the remote Western Australian town of Wiluna. The Martu live in a remote environment of material poverty, high levels of unemployment, low levels of educational achievement and poor health outcomes. The research sponsored by the Ngangganawili Aboriginal Health Service and located in its Early Childhood Centre, uses an Indigenous research approach based on Brayboy's (2005) TribalCrit to explore Martu child rearing practices, beliefs and values. It uses the stories told by the Martu in Wiluna about the way they and their families were brought up and observations of Martu families to answer research questions around Martu definitions of children and families, their concerns for their children, ways of ensuring the well being of their children, and whether there is a Martu child welfare approach. The research then considers the implications of these Martu practices for the broadly defined child welfare system. The stories told by the Martu show that they have a unique way of bringing up their children that is different to those in the dominant White culture. This uniqueness is derived from a combination of the recent colonisation of the Martu, their culture and their post colonisation experiences. The implications of Martu child rearing for the child welfare system are based on the assumption that Martu are wholly dependent on poorly designed and targeted government provided or funded services, and the current ways of delivering these services is failing the Martu. The research concludes that the key to improving outcomes for Martu children and their families is for the agencies delivering these services to form close working relationships with the Martu; operate within, understand, appreciate, and respect Martu Law and culture; understand their (personal and agency) and Martu post colonisation histories; and allow for Martu control, definition of priorities and development of strategies to address the problems.
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Frances, Katie. "Nothing changes : dangerous childhoods and the 'unprotecting' of children in Western Australia." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2008. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/165.

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The problem under investigation in this project is the apparent continuity in the social, cultural and historical acceptance of dominant claims to truth which position children as variously vulnerable, dependent and passive social actors-in-waiting: constructions which produce limitations in the conditions of possibility for their 'protection'. My aim has been to consider critically whether these fundamental and taken-for-granted assumptions have been discursively (re)produced in a select few of Western Australia's child protection policies. The central disciplinary discourses through which the problem is examined are: 'familialisation', 'futurity" 'within the child's best interests', and 'participation'. To uncover the implications of these assumptions I have approached the investigation from within a child- centred framework, wherein I seek to focus at all times on how conceptualisations of the social categories 'child' and 'children', and their location within the structural space of 'childhood', are (re )presented, positioned and understood within these key discursive sites. The purpose of taking a child-centred approach is to investigate the extent to which discourses about children and childhood constrain, or, expand, conditions of possibility for the continuation, or amelioration, of deleterious, disrespectful and/or unfair representations of them. In order to achieve this aim, I have applied a critical discourse analysis to the chosen policies, engaging, with postmodern debates located within understandings of discourse and its relationship to power, knowledge and identity. This analysis has also been supported and augmented by the 'new' social studies of childhood, studies which expand, both theoretically and empirically, social, historical, and cultural understandings of children and childhoods, and age categories and relations. The findings, explicated in the analyses Chapters, Five to Eight, and discussed in Chapter Nine, support the assumptions residing within the problem: children are constrained by the very discourses which not only produce particular constructions of them but are productive of a system of power relationships, and institutional and societal structures and conditions which, together, reinforce their assigned inferior and subordinate social status in a differentiated and separate world of childhood.
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Fenton, Sarah-Jane Hannah. "Mental health service delivery for adolescents and young people : a comparative study between Australia and the UK." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2016. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7111/.

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This thesis explores policy and service delivery for adolescent and young adult or ‘transition age’ mental health service users aged 16-25 across different jurisdictions in the UK and Australia. The study explores the implications that policy formulation and implementation have for service delivery in these different contextual settings; and examines how young people (who are at a vulnerable stage developmentally in terms of mental health), have their access to services affected by the existing policy framework. A policy analysis was conducted along with qualitative interviews in six case sites (three in the UK and three in Australia). The thesis adopted a critical realist approach using a laminated cross-sectional interview strategy that was developed to include interviews with national policy makers; local policy makers and service managers; staff working within services; and the young people whom were accessing services as the recipients of policy. Findings from this thesis explore how young people use risk escalation as a way of managing delays to treatment and how practitioners identify particular difficulties for young people transitioning in services when they are due to ‘step up’ into more acute services, or ‘step down’ to a less intensive service. The thesis explores the implications and unintended consequences for young people of policy including processes of ‘cost-shunting’ and ‘resource envy’ at local and national levels. Finally, the thesis offers some learning for systems working to support 16-25 year olds through demonstrating the importance of the dual role of ‘curing’ and ‘caring’ in mental health services.
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Spurling, Helen Jennifer. "'Taken young and properly trained' : a critique of the motives for the removal of Queensland Aboriginal children and British migrant children to Australia from their families, 1901-1939 /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2003. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17575.pdf.

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McComsey, Michelle. "Seeing and being seen : Aboriginal community making in Redfern." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2013. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/seeing-and-being-seen-aboriginal-community-making-in-redfern(59ce4c49-ee58-4a35-a796-f926ef5aff9c).html.

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This thesis focuses on processes of Aboriginal community-making in Redfern, an inner city suburb of Sydney, Australia. It addresses the ways in which the Australian state governs Aboriginal people by developing 'projects of legibility' (and illegibility) concerning Aboriginal community sociality. To address Redfern Aboriginal community-making requires focusing on the ambiguities arising from the contemporary policy of 'Aboriginal self-determination' and adopting an ethnohistorical approach to Aboriginal community-making that has arisen under this policy rubric. By ethnohistorical I refer to the engagement of Aboriginal people in Redfern in Aboriginal community-making policy practices and not a historiography of these policies. Attention will be paid to past and present negotiations concerning the (re)development of the Redfern Aboriginal community and their intersections in the state-led redevelopment process Aboriginal community- makers were engaged in during the course of my research in 2005-2007. These negotiations centre on attempts made to reproduce certain forms of sociality that both reveal and obscure Aboriginal social relations when inscribed in the category 'Aboriginal community'. This analysis is meant to contribute to the limited anthropological research that exists on urban Aboriginal experiences generally and research conducted on Aboriginal experiences in southeastern Australia. It addresses the complex social field of Aboriginal community-making practices that exist in Australia where Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians are located within the bureaucratic structures of the state, institutional networks, as well as non-government community organisations. This research contributes to understanding 'the institutional construction of indigeneity' (Weiner 2006: 19) and how this informs the (re)development of urban Aboriginal communities.
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Keenan, Anthony Michael. "The Boys' Reformatory Brooklyn Park : a history, 1898-1941." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1988. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ED.M/09ed.mk26.pdf.

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Gorton, Kerin Joy. "Carters' Barracks and Point Puer: the confinement experience of convict boys in colonial Australia, 1820-1850." Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1312565.

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Recently efforts have been made to bring to the public's attention the Point Puer Boys Establishment, as an annex of the Port Arthur penal establishment in Van Diemen's Land. The Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority wish to secure its position in Australian history very firmly. Point Puer however, was not the only, nor the first juvenile establishment in the British Empire as the have claimed. Chapter two of this thesis will draw particular attention to the colony's first juvenile prison and industrial reformatory, Carters' House of Correction, in Sydney, commonly known as Carters' Barracks. Until now, very little has been written about its establishment, role or presence in the colony. However, as this thesis will argue, it was a highly significant child-saving institution of a pioneering nature. The nature of Carters' Barracks, as an institution, highlights significant questions surrounding child welfare, re-education policies and their social ramifications as well as the problems faced by imperialist administrators who had never before experienced such a situation. Carters' Barracks can be arguably viewed as an unconscious precedent for future child reform ideologies in nineteenth and early twentieth century Australia. While convict boys and their experiences have been substantially neglected, numerous recent studies have contributed to the knowledge of adult male and female convict experienced within the development of Australian colonial society. Academic, popular and public historians' alike, more than ever before, revel in the debates of new interpretations of the convict experience. However, as it will be concluded it is erroneous to continue in the belief that the colony seemingly operated without the presence of convict child labour. From the arrival of the first fleet, children were present and active in the colony forming a vital part of its convict labour economic structure. It is the aim of this thesis to examine the experiences of these younger convicts, in particular their confinement experiences within the boundaries of Carters' Barracks and Point Puer.
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Books on the topic "Child welfare Australia Societies"

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Child protection Australia, 2007-08. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2009.

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Valentine, Kate. Child protection Australia 2008-09. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2010.

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Chan, Edward Ko Ling. Child protection in Chinese societies: Challenges and policies. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2011.

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Christobel, Mattingley, and Hampton Ken 1937-1987, eds. Survival in our own land: "Aboriginal" experiences in "South Australia" since 1836. Adelaide, S. Aust: Wakefield Press, 1988.

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New York (State). Dept. of Law. Societies for the prevention of cruelty to children: A century-old system in need of reform. [Albany, N.Y.?]: New York State Dept. of Law, 1989.

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Care between work and welfare in European societies. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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Frans, Ruth. Report of membership assessment of the Child Protection Alliance. [Gambia]: Child Protection Alliance, 2004.

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Coldrey, Barry M. Good British stock: Child and youth migration to Australia. Canberra: National Archives of Australia, 1999.

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Maluccio, Anthony N. Child welfare outcome research in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. Washington, DC: CWLA Press, 2000.

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Australia. Child Support Evaluation Advisory Group. Child support in Australia: Final report of the evaluation of the Child Support Scheme. [Canberra]: Commonwealth of Australia, 1992.

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Castles, Francis. "Welfare and Equality in Capitalist Societies: How and Why Australia was Different." In Australian Welfare, 56–73. London: Macmillan Education UK, 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11081-0_3.

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Lynch, Gordon. "‘Providing for Children… Deprived of a Normal Home Life’: The Curtis Report and the Post-war Policy Landscape of Children’s Out-of-Home Care." In UK Child Migration to Australia, 1945-1970, 91–130. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69728-0_4.

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AbstractThis chapter examines how child-care policy in Britain in the early post-war period was shaped by the publication of the 1946 Curtis report, whose recommendations were substantially implemented in the 1948 Children Act. The chapter considers both the report’s position on the administrative restructuring of children’s care and its importance in articulating standards of good practice in child-care based on broad concepts from child psychology. The report’s recommendations specifically for child migration are discussed as well as the different ways in which voluntary societies involved in this work engaged with the Curtis Committee on this issue. Whilst strengthening controls over child migration to a limited extent, the subsequent 1948 Children Act introduced separate obligations for the emigration of children from the care of local authorities compared to voluntary societies, thus creating a two-tier administrative system that was to have significant consequences for many child migrants.
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Fernandez, Elizabeth, and Paul Delfabbro. "Policy and trends in child welfare in Australia and the global context." In Child Protection and the Care Continuum, 3–26. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003121305-1.

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Lynch, Gordon. "‘A Serious Injustice to the Individual’: British Child Migration to Australia as Policy Failure." In UK Child Migration to Australia, 1945-1970, 1–22. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69728-0_1.

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AbstractThe Introduction sets this book in the wider context of recent studies and public interest in historic child abuse. Noting other international cases of child abuse in the context of public programmes and other institutional contexts, it is argued that children’s suffering usually arose not from an absence of policy and legal protections but a failure to implement these effectively. The assisted migration of unaccompanied children from the United Kingdom to Australia is presented, particularly in the post-war period, as another such example of systemic failures to maintain known standards of child welfare. The focus of the book on policy decisions and administrative systems within the UK Government is explained and the relevance of this study to the historiography of child migration and post-war child welfare is also set out.
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Lynch, Gordon. "‘The Risk Involved is Inappreciable… and the Gain Exceptional’: Child Migration to Australia and Empire Settlement Policy, 1913–1939." In UK Child Migration to Australia, 1945-1970, 23–53. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69728-0_2.

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AbstractThis chapter examines the development of UK child migration to Australia in the inter-war period. Following the opening of Kingsley Fairbridge’s experimental farm school for child migrants at Pinjarra in 1913, the 1920s and 1930s saw a gradual increase in the number of voluntary societies involved in this work and of residential institutions in Australia receiving child migrants. The growth of these programmes in the wider context of the UK Government’s assisted migration policies is discussed. During the 1930s, the global financial depression weakened governmental support for assisted migration, and greater caution emerged within the UK Government about the value of some planned migration schemes. Nevertheless, by 1939, child migration to Australia was seen by UK policy-makers as a small but important part of the attempt to strengthen ties with Britain’s Dominions and to make more efficient use of their collective human and material resources.
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Lynch, Gordon. "‘Australia as the Coming Greatest Foster-Father of Children the World Has Ever Known’: The Post-war Resumption of Child Migration to Australia, 1945–1947." In UK Child Migration to Australia, 1945-1970, 131–89. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69728-0_5.

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AbstractThis chapter examines the policy context and administrative systems associated with the resumption of assisted child migration from the United Kingdom to Australia in 1947. During the Second World War, the Australian Commonwealth Government came to see child migration as an increasingly important element in its wider plans for post-war population growth. Whilst initially developing a plan to receive up to 50,000 ‘war orphans’ shortly after the war in new government-run cottage homes, the Commonwealth Government subsequently abandoned this, partly for financial reasons. A more cost-effective strategy of working with voluntary societies, and their residential institutions, was adopted instead. Monitoring systems of these initial migration parties by the UK Government were weak. Whilst the Home Office began to formulate policies about appropriate standards of care for child migrants overseas, this work was hampered by tensions between the Home Office and the Commonwealth Relations Office about the extent to control over organisations in Australia was possible.
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Lynch, Gordon. "From Regulation to Moral Persuasion: Child Migration Policy and the Home Office Children’s Department, 1948–1954." In UK Child Migration to Australia, 1945-1970, 191–242. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69728-0_6.

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AbstractThis chapter examines the wider policy context and administrative systems for child migration to Australia in the period 1948-1954. With stronger concerns about child migration being expressed by some professional and voluntary organisations in Britain, in 1949 the Home Office began a process of drafting regulations for the emigration of children from the care of voluntary societies. The chapter examines how the process of developing these regulations was delayed through a complex bureaucratic process, with a final draft of the regulations not completed until 1954. Concerns about the legal limitations of these regulations and their effective power in safeguarding child migrants once overseas contributed to a subsequent decision in the Home Office not to introduce them. This decision was also informed by an independent review of child migration to Australia by John Moss, published in 1953, which offered a broadly positive view of this work. The chapter considers why Moss—a former member of the Curtis Committee—took this view, and how broad policy standards such as the Curtis report were, in practice, interpreted and implemented in different ways.
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Lynch, Gordon. "Flawed Progress: Criticisms of Residential Institutions for Child Migrants in Australia and Policy Responses, 1939–1945." In UK Child Migration to Australia, 1945-1970, 55–90. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69728-0_3.

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AbstractThe positive view of child migration held by UK Government officials in the inter-war period was not based on any regular system of inspections of the institutions in Australia to which children were sent. During the Second World War, UK Government officials became more of reported problems at several of these institutions, relating to standards of accommodation, management, care, training and after-care. This chapter traces the growing awareness of these problems and the UK Government’s response to them. Whilst policy-makers’ positive assumptions about child migration were challenged, and specific issues and institutions were known to require significant improvement, overall confidence in the value of child migration remained. Despite evidence of organisational failings in Australia, Australian welfare professionals were trusted to address these problems, and suggestions about the need for greater control from the United Kingdom were seen as a backward-looking attempt to limit the autonomy of Britain’s Dominions.
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Lynch, Gordon. "‘Avoiding Fruitless Controversy’: UK Child Migration and the Anatomy of Policy Failure." In UK Child Migration to Australia, 1945-1970, 299–317. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69728-0_8.

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AbstractThis concluding chapter explores why it was that post-war child migration to Australia was allowed to resume and continue by the UK Government despite known failings in these schemes. It is argued that one factor was the sheer administrative complexity of a multi-agency programme operating over different national jurisdictions and large distances which made control and oversight of conditions for British child migrants harder to achieve. Despite concerns that the post-war welfare state would be a powerful, centralised mechanism, the history of these programmes demonstrates British policy-makers’ sense of the limits of their powers—limits arising from lack of resource, the perceived need to avoid unproductive conflict with powerful stakeholders, the wish to respect boundaries of departmental policy remits and assumptions about the value of following policy precedents. The chapter concludes by considering how fine-grained analyses of such policy failures can contribute to public debates about suitable redress.
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Tilbury, Clare. "Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Families in Australia: Poverty and Child Welfare Involvement." In Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research, 273–84. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17506-5_17.

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