Author, Researcher, Historian
My PhD thesis from Federation University Australia is now available on line. This is a very brief summary: Australia has a long history of removing children from their families when they are deemed to be neglected or ‘in moral danger’. Placed in orphanages, children’s Homes and foster ‘care’ out of the public gaze, these children […]
This is an interim commentary. I want to add more to it when I have time. One of the things keeping me busy over the past several years is linking into and keeping up with Care Leavers organisations in other countries. There’s a great deal of interest in sharing experiences across the world. For a […]
The Alliance for Care Experienced People in Higher Education is a project currently being developed by care experienced people for care experienced people in Higher Education (HE). The term ‘care experienced’ people has become a common tag used in the Uk to describe what we in Australia usually call Care Leavers (and some people still […]