Investigation into the financial support provided to kinship carers / Victorian Ombudsman
- Bib ID:
- 7730240
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Victoria. Ombudsman, author
- Online Version:
- https://www.ombudsman.vic.gov.au/getattachment/e944c115-b5bd-4b55-bcec-5d997bdbb9d7
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- Description:
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- [Melbourne] : Victorian Government Printer, December 2017
- 64 pages : colour charts ; 30 cm
- Series:
- Parliamentary paper (Victoria. Parliament) ; Session 2014/17, no. 360.
- Summary:
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It is a core part of the Ombudsman's job to be investigating issues affecting the most disadvantaged in our society, and this investigation concerns not only the disadvantaged, but a group of people to whom we owe a debt of gratitude. Kinship carers - members of a child's family or social group - take on the care of children who are unable to live safely with their parents. They do so often in difficult and challenging circumstances, and at a fraction of the cost to the public purse of other forms of out-of-home care. Kinship is, rightly, the fastest growing form of out-of-home care in the State; over 5,500 children live in kinship care, compared with 1,515 in foster care and 439 in residential care. It is usually in the child's best interests to be cared for by a member of their family or social group, particularly for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, for whom connection to culture is vital. This investigation looked into the financial support received by kinship carers. Financial support by the State - whether to kinship carers or foster carers - is not payment for looking after a child, but to assist the carer with the additional costs they incur because of the placement - food, fuel, household provisions and so on, to ensure they are not disadvantaged by the arrangement. Yet despite this admirable principle, kinship carers are almost invariably the poor relation. - Foreword.
- Full contents:
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- Foreword
- Glossary
- Executive summary
- Background
- Historical context
- The kinship care system
- Best interests of the child
- Delay
- Information provision
- Conclusions
- Recommendations
- Appendices.
- Notes:
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- Title from cover.
- "December 2017"
- Deborah Glass OBE, Ombudsman.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Also available online. Address as at 4/01/2018: https://www.ombudsman.vic.gov.au/getattachment/e944c115-b5bd-4b55-bcec-5d997bdbb9d7
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Glass, Deborah
- Copyright:
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