Bj Newton
Biographic Data
| ID | 4413125 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bj Newton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bj |
| FAMILY NAME | Newton |
| SIGNATURE | NEWTON B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2299-4029 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
No Child Left Behind
Bring them home, keep them home is research based in New South Wales (NSW) Australia, that aims to understand successful and sustainable reunification for Aboriginal families who have children in out-of-home care (OOHC). This research is led by Aboriginal researchers, and partners with Aboriginal organisations. It is informed by the experiences of 20 Aboriginal parents and family members, and more than 200 practitioners and professionals working …
Realising Aboriginal Community Controlled Approaches to Child Reunification
Reunification rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) in Australia are critically low, even though reunification is the preferred permanency outcome for children following removal, and despite a range of mechanisms and strategies ostensibly to support effective reunification. To better understand the barriers to reunification of Aboriginal children, from the perspective of practitioners, nine practition…
Re-envisaging child protection contacts as an early prevention opportunity to support child development and well-being
OBJECTIVES: To quantify developmental vulnerability at age 5 by child protection contacts before school in two Australian states. METHODS: All children with birth, child protection and/or 2009, 2012, 2015 and 2018 Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) data in New South Wales (NSW) and South Australia (SA) were grouped according to child protection contact before school: no contact, child protection reports, screened-in reports, investigation…
Prevalence of maternal substance use problems during pregnancy and the first 2 years of life
OBJECTIVES: To estimate the prevalence of maternal substance use problems during the first 1000 days of children's lives, to inform planning and resourcing of antenatal screening and substance use in pregnancy services, alongside antenatal and postnatal health, parenting and social support services for pregnant women/new mothers and their babies. METHOD: This whole-population cohort was assembled from birth registration, perinatal and hospital da…
Playing the Game
Reunification, or restoration of children from Out‐of‐Home Care (OOHC) is very rare. Using evidence generated from the New South Wales‐based Aboriginal‐led research Bring them home, keep them home, this paper examines and celebrates the resistance and resourcefulness of 20 Aboriginal families who navigated a child protection system designed to separate their children from them. Aboriginal families have described the struggle to have their childre…
Restoring Children From Out‐of‐Home Care
Restoring children from out‐of‐home care (OOHC) to their families is the preferred outcome for all children removed by child protection services, yet little is known about how restoration processes are experienced by families and services supporting them. This paper provides important insights about Aboriginal child restoration from 40 practitioners and stakeholders at a community forum led by Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations in regi…
Trauma then and now
Currently, Aboriginal children are significantly over‐represented in the out‐of‐home‐care system. Drawing on Aboriginal trauma scholarship and decolonizing methodologies, this paper situates the contemporary state removal of Aboriginal children against the backdrop of historical policies that actively sought to disrupt Aboriginal kinship and communities. The paper draws on submissions to the 2018 Australian Senate Parliamentary Inquiry into Adopt…
Aboriginal parents' experiences of having their children removed by statutory child protection services
The number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children living in out‐of‐home care has more than doubled in the past decade. Research into the experiences of parents who have had their children removed is an emerging area; though very few of these studies are specific to Indigenous children and families. This paper presents a participatory research study that explored the experiences of a group of Aboriginal Australian parents who have had t…
Creating Cultural Safety as an Aboriginal Teacher in a Class of Non-Aboriginal University Students
Creating a culturally safe learning environment is critical for Aboriginal teachers in universities. This paper explores my experience as a new lecturer convening an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social work course at an Australian university. As an Aboriginal woman teaching to a large class of non-Aboriginal students, establishing cultural safety became a priority early on. Through reflecting on my journey from feeling vulnerable at the …
Understanding child neglect in Aboriginal families and communities in the context of trauma
Child neglect is a significant concern for Aboriginal families and communities both in Australia and internationally. Service responses to child neglect are largely informed by child neglect theories, which explain the nature and causes of child neglect. However, child neglect is a problem that is worsening for Aboriginal children, suggesting that these theories are not appropriate. This paper argues that to meet the needs of Aboriginal families …
An Aboriginal community's perceptions and experiences of child neglect in a rural town
Very little is known about how Aboriginal parents experiencing vulnerabilities and communities perceive child neglect, despite Aboriginal families being highly overrepresented in the child protection system. This research investigates the perceptions and experiences of child neglect from Aboriginal parents and human services workers in a rural community. Research methods consisted of community forums and interviews with parents and workers. One c…
Trauma then and now
Currently, Aboriginal children are significantly over‐represented in the out‐of‐home‐care system. Drawing on Aboriginal trauma scholarship and decolonizing methodologies, this paper situates the contemporary state removal of Aboriginal children against the backdrop of historical policies that actively sought to disrupt Aboriginal kinship and communities. The paper draws on submissions to the 2018 Australian Senate Parliamentary Inquiry into Adopt…
Restoring Children From Out‐of‐Home Care
Restoring children from out‐of‐home care (OOHC) to their families is the preferred outcome for all children removed by child protection services, yet little is known about how restoration processes are experienced by families and services supporting them. This paper provides important insights about Aboriginal child restoration from 40 practitioners and stakeholders at a community forum led by Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations in regi…
Understanding child neglect in Aboriginal families and communities in the context of trauma
Child neglect is a significant concern for Aboriginal families and communities both in Australia and internationally. Service responses to child neglect are largely informed by child neglect theories, which explain the nature and causes of child neglect. However, child neglect is a problem that is worsening for Aboriginal children, suggesting that these theories are not appropriate. This paper argues that to meet the needs of Aboriginal families …
Aboriginal parents' experiences of having their children removed by statutory child protection services
The number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children living in out‐of‐home care has more than doubled in the past decade. Research into the experiences of parents who have had their children removed is an emerging area; though very few of these studies are specific to Indigenous children and families. This paper presents a participatory research study that explored the experiences of a group of Aboriginal Australian parents who have had t…
Creating Cultural Safety as an Aboriginal Teacher in a Class of Non-Aboriginal University Students
Creating a culturally safe learning environment is critical for Aboriginal teachers in universities. This paper explores my experience as a new lecturer convening an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social work course at an Australian university. As an Aboriginal woman teaching to a large class of non-Aboriginal students, establishing cultural safety became a priority early on. Through reflecting on my journey from feeling vulnerable at the …
An Aboriginal community's perceptions and experiences of child neglect in a rural town
Very little is known about how Aboriginal parents experiencing vulnerabilities and communities perceive child neglect, despite Aboriginal families being highly overrepresented in the child protection system. This research investigates the perceptions and experiences of child neglect from Aboriginal parents and human services workers in a rural community. Research methods consisted of community forums and interviews with parents and workers. One c…
Playing the Game
Reunification, or restoration of children from Out‐of‐Home Care (OOHC) is very rare. Using evidence generated from the New South Wales‐based Aboriginal‐led research Bring them home, keep them home, this paper examines and celebrates the resistance and resourcefulness of 20 Aboriginal families who navigated a child protection system designed to separate their children from them. Aboriginal families have described the struggle to have their childre…
An Aboriginal community's perceptions and experiences of child neglect in a rural town
Very little is known about how Aboriginal parents experiencing vulnerabilities and communities perceive child neglect, despite Aboriginal families being highly overrepresented in the child protection system. This research investigates the perceptions and experiences of child neglect from Aboriginal parents and human services workers in a rural community. Research methods consisted of community forums and interviews with parents and workers. One c…
Understanding child neglect in Aboriginal families and communities in the context of trauma
Child neglect is a significant concern for Aboriginal families and communities both in Australia and internationally. Service responses to child neglect are largely informed by child neglect theories, which explain the nature and causes of child neglect. However, child neglect is a problem that is worsening for Aboriginal children, suggesting that these theories are not appropriate. This paper argues that to meet the needs of Aboriginal families …
Aboriginal parents' experiences of having their children removed by statutory child protection services
The number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children living in out‐of‐home care has more than doubled in the past decade. Research into the experiences of parents who have had their children removed is an emerging area; though very few of these studies are specific to Indigenous children and families. This paper presents a participatory research study that explored the experiences of a group of Aboriginal Australian parents who have had t…
Creating Cultural Safety as an Aboriginal Teacher in a Class of Non-Aboriginal University Students
Creating a culturally safe learning environment is critical for Aboriginal teachers in universities. This paper explores my experience as a new lecturer convening an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social work course at an Australian university. As an Aboriginal woman teaching to a large class of non-Aboriginal students, establishing cultural safety became a priority early on. Through reflecting on my journey from feeling vulnerable at the …
Trauma then and now
Currently, Aboriginal children are significantly over‐represented in the out‐of‐home‐care system. Drawing on Aboriginal trauma scholarship and decolonizing methodologies, this paper situates the contemporary state removal of Aboriginal children against the backdrop of historical policies that actively sought to disrupt Aboriginal kinship and communities. The paper draws on submissions to the 2018 Australian Senate Parliamentary Inquiry into Adopt…
Restoring Children From Out‐of‐Home Care
Restoring children from out‐of‐home care (OOHC) to their families is the preferred outcome for all children removed by child protection services, yet little is known about how restoration processes are experienced by families and services supporting them. This paper provides important insights about Aboriginal child restoration from 40 practitioners and stakeholders at a community forum led by Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations in regi…
No Child Left Behind
Bring them home, keep them home is research based in New South Wales (NSW) Australia, that aims to understand successful and sustainable reunification for Aboriginal families who have children in out-of-home care (OOHC). This research is led by Aboriginal researchers, and partners with Aboriginal organisations. It is informed by the experiences of 20 Aboriginal parents and family members, and more than 200 practitioners and professionals working …
Realising Aboriginal Community Controlled Approaches to Child Reunification
Reunification rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) in Australia are critically low, even though reunification is the preferred permanency outcome for children following removal, and despite a range of mechanisms and strategies ostensibly to support effective reunification. To better understand the barriers to reunification of Aboriginal children, from the perspective of practitioners, nine practition…
Re-envisaging child protection contacts as an early prevention opportunity to support child development and well-being
OBJECTIVES: To quantify developmental vulnerability at age 5 by child protection contacts before school in two Australian states. METHODS: All children with birth, child protection and/or 2009, 2012, 2015 and 2018 Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) data in New South Wales (NSW) and South Australia (SA) were grouped according to child protection contact before school: no contact, child protection reports, screened-in reports, investigation…
Prevalence of maternal substance use problems during pregnancy and the first 2 years of life
OBJECTIVES: To estimate the prevalence of maternal substance use problems during the first 1000 days of children's lives, to inform planning and resourcing of antenatal screening and substance use in pregnancy services, alongside antenatal and postnatal health, parenting and social support services for pregnant women/new mothers and their babies. METHOD: This whole-population cohort was assembled from birth registration, perinatal and hospital da…
Playing the Game
Reunification, or restoration of children from Out‐of‐Home Care (OOHC) is very rare. Using evidence generated from the New South Wales‐based Aboriginal‐led research Bring them home, keep them home, this paper examines and celebrates the resistance and resourcefulness of 20 Aboriginal families who navigated a child protection system designed to separate their children from them. Aboriginal families have described the struggle to have their childre…
Medicine (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (6 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (4 works)