boarding out – Frank Golding

History of institutions providing out-of-home residential care for children

By fgolding@bigpond.net.auPosted on 26 October 201430 October 2014Posted in Orphanage, Child Welfare, Social History, Adoption, State Wards, Children’s Homes, Foster Care, Children’s Institutions, Golding, Sinnett, Neglected, Child Abuse, Family,, Sexual Abuse, UncategorizedTagged boarding out, deserving and undeserving poor, Indigenous children, residential care, Royal Commission Child Sexual Abuse1 Comment

This is the 2nd of Prof Shurlee Swain’s three research papers for the Royal Commission It can be downloaded here This will prove to be the most fascinating of the Swain papers for those who are new to this area. It explains the many different types of institutions offering out-of-home ‘care’ for children in Australia from […]

10 Blunders in Child Welfare

By fgolding@bigpond.net.auPosted on 16 September 201413 October 2014Posted in Orphanage, Child Welfare, Social History, Adoption, State Wards, Children’s Homes, Foster Care, Children’s Institutions, Golding, Sinnett, Neglected, Child Abuse, Family,Tagged absconding, adoption, Arthur Kenny, Auditor-General, Ballarat Orphanage, Betrayal of Trust Report, boarding out, censorship, child labour, childhood records, deserving and undeserving poor, educational opportunity, Forgotten Australians, foster care, gender stereotypes, IQ testing, medical experiments on children, Norgard Inquiry, Ombusdman, poverty, residential care, rights of parents, Royal Commission Child Sexual Abuse, Senate Committee, third party redaction, Tony Abbott, unemployed6 Comments

UPDATE The ten worst blunders in child welfare in Australia since 1788. COUNT DOWN TO NUMBER 1 It has been hard deciding which of all the many mistakes of the past – and those which continue to be made – warrants the title “the worst”. But here it is. BLUNDER # 1: Having inflicted significant damage on children […]