Setting Them up to Fail’
System Responses to Dual Order Child Protection and Youth Justice Clients
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12353583 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan Baidawi (0000-0003-4394-1313, corresponding author), Philip Mendes (0000-0002-2750-4140), P Snow (0000-0002-2426-8349) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 31-35 |
| Publication date | 2014-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Alternative Law Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1037-969X • E-ISSN: 2398-9084 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1037969x1403900109 |
| OpenAlex | W2227074183 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
Child protection and youth justice are the two most significant statutory systems involved in the care of children and adolescents in Australia. Care leavers are one of the most disadvantaged and marginalised populations in our society. Their precare experiences of abuse and neglect, their often poor in-care experiences, their accelerated transitions to adulthood, and the lack of ongoing support they receive upon leaving care make them vulnerable to a number of poor social and economic outomes. Leaving care is formally defined as the cessation of legal responsibility by the state for young people living in out of home care ('OHC'). In Australia, young people in OHC are expected to commence preparation for leaving care from the age of 15 or 16; by the time they are 18 years old, the state ceases legal responsibility for the care and welfare of this group. Individual states and territories have legislated for the provision of postcare services for this group, with supports generally available until the age of 21, or up until 25 years in some jurisdictions (for example, New South Wales and Western Australia)
Disadvantaged · Economic growth · Economic Justice · Economics · Legislation · Neglect · Political science · Residential care · State (computer science · Statutory law · Welfare · Child Abuse and Trauma · Child Welfare and Adoption · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Medicine · Nursing
| Highly cited | No |
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