Sibling networks of children adopted from out-of-home care in New South Wales, Australia

Luu, Betty; Wright, Amy Conley; Cashmore, Judy

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105588

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“…Groups of siblings are often separated from each other at or after entry into care, owing to issues such as the availability of suitable placements and the differing needs of siblings (Institute of Open Adoption, 2018; McDowall, 2015). One or more siblings may then go on to be adopted or placed on guardianship orders while others may remain in OOHC (Institute of Open Adoption Studies, 2018; Luu et al, 2020). A study by Luu et al (2020) examined all adoptions from care finalised in New South Wales (NSW) in 2017, a total of 89 cases involving 117 individual children.…”

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“…One or more siblings may then go on to be adopted or placed on guardianship orders while others may remain in OOHC (Institute of Open Adoption Studies, 2018; Luu et al, 2020). A study by Luu et al (2020) examined all adoptions from care finalised in New South Wales (NSW) in 2017, a total of 89 cases involving 117 individual children. Of those 89 cases, 80 involved at least one external sibling who was not included in the adoption in question.…”

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Categorisations of care: Exploring representations of care leavers in higher education through critical praxis

Bunn,

Fuller

2023

British Educational Res J

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In this paper, we explore the critical praxis approach of an equity initiative with students who have left care. We contend that ‘praxis’ (International Studies in Widening Participation, 2018, 5: 10–20) – understood here as the close, dialogic and iterative relationship between research and practice, can be a powerful tool for approaching ordinarily rigid equity categorisations as a means for interrogating their conceptual efficacy while simultaneously creating more exploratory approaches to equity populations and initiatives. We examine how unproblematised notions of care leavers migrate between fields and institutions, arguing for a more robust and rigorous interrogation of the salience of the concept of a care leaver as it is integrated into the field of higher education. We contend that rigid definitions of care that narrowly define people only through their relationship to formalised state‐legitimated forms of welfare intervention risk making ‘absent’ (Epistemologies of the south: Justice against Epistemicide, 2014; Routledge) the substantial population of people nearby this experience of care. This includes people who have escaped official definitions as policies change, circumstances that are similar or identical to people placed in care that have not been included in the official definition of care, or the overlapping and intersecting conditions of marginality that often shape the conditions for being removed into state care. Critical praxis is offered here as providing the basis for allowing the category of ‘care leaver’ or ‘care experienced’ to become an in‐road for expanding practice initiatives and research understandings to further dimensions of marginalisation and social vulnerability.

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Categorisations of care: Exploring representations of care leavers in higher education through critical praxis

Bunn,

Fuller

2023

British Educational Res J

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“…Out‐of‐home care literature on children's experience of separation from birth parents and siblings are generally framed within the broader notion of trauma and loss (Collings et al, 2022; Luu et al, 2020). While appropriate, research suggests that the application of ambiguous loss is needed to assist practitioners to develop a more nuanced understanding and approach to addressing children's experience of loss in OOHC (Purtell et al, 2020).…”

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Responding to children's ambiguous loss in out‐of‐home care: The HEAR practice model

Kor

Park

Dear³

et al. 2023

Child & Family Social Work

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Children in out‐of‐home care may experience multiple losses, from separation from birth parents and siblings to loss of friendships, culture, and sense of belonging and normality. The impacts of these significant losses on a child's development and wellbeing have typically been the subject of childhood trauma research. While understanding the impact is important, children's experiences of the losses and the ways adults can support them to grieve are less explored in research. Recently, out‐of‐home care researchers have begun to address this knowledge gap by applying the concept of ambiguous loss to capture and understand children's grief and loss. This article builds on this work and reports findings of a qualitative study that involved 30 out‐of‐home care practitioners. Constructivist Grounded Theory was applied to analyse the research data which resulted in the HEAR model that outlines the practice components that out‐of‐home care practitioners considered important in effectively responding to children's experience of ambiguous loss. These components are (1) Honouring ambiguous loss; (2) Establishing a care community; (3) Attuning to the lack of finality of ambiguous loss and (4) Reducing ambiguity. This article presents research findings that supported the development of the HEAR model, and discusses its implications for out‐of‐home care practice.

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Expecting an already born child: Prospective adoptive parents’ expectations in intercountry adoption

Lasio

Chessa

Chistolini³

et al. 2021

Children and Youth Services Review

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Sibling networks of children adopted from out-of-home care in New South Wales, Australia

Cited by 4 publications

References 32 publications

Categorisations of care: Exploring representations of care leavers in higher education through critical praxis

Categorisations of care: Exploring representations of care leavers in higher education through critical praxis

Responding to children's ambiguous loss in out‐of‐home care: The HEAR practice model

Expecting an already born child: Prospective adoptive parents’ expectations in intercountry adoption

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