A report card into support for children in foster care shows the ACT is lagging behind the states.
The report, by the CREATE Foundation, shows Canberra has the shortest period of support once government assistance runs out, in what is known as the ‘transition period.’
CREATE Chief Executive Officer, Jacqui Reed says in the ACT that is [...]

Published on The Weekend Australian
By Elisabeth Wynhausen
Calls to do more about abuse and neglect ignore the realities for children in care, writes Elisabeth Wynhausen
Unique kid: Former state ward Ben Flowers, who is now a productive member of society. Flowers says he was ‘just a typical attention deficit disorder case’
Pictures: Vanessa Hunter
CAROL was 12 when she [...]

By youth affairs reporter Michael Turtle
Terri Glew is 22. At the age of five she and her sisters were taken from her heroin-addicted mother. She spent the next 11 years in foster care in rural New South Wales but then left, and ended up in refuges and other temporary accommodation.
“The best thing for a kid [...]

Published on The Weekend Australian 19-20 April, 2008
By Elizabeth Wynhausen
A flood of child-abuse notifications is stretching resources and creating a bureaucratic, social nightmare, writes Elisabeth Wynhausen
One of the lucky ones: K. C. Weir is grateful to Queensland’s Department of Child Safety
Picture: David Sproule
THE boy was just five when he was taken from his family for [...]