Graduating from the child welfare system: a comparison of the UK and Australian leaving care debates

Mendes, Philip; Moslehuddin, Badal Md

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2397.2004.00329.x

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“…Instability and multiple placement moves are well-documented characteristics of local authority care, and associated with poor outcomes for young people (Biehal et al, 1995;Broad, 1999;Mendes and Moslehuddin, 2004). While the signifi cance of ensuring stability in local authority care is long recognised, 'it is not clear what the relationship is between stability and later outcomes' (Cashmore and Paxman, 2006, p. 233).…”

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‘Moved around like bags of rubbish nobody wants’: how multiple placement moves can make young women vulnerable to sexual exploitation

Coy

2009

Child Abuse Review

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This paper discusses fi ndings from an exploratory study that sought to identify how local authority care places young women at risk of sexual exploitation through prostitution by unpicking the 'culture of care', and focuses on frequent placement moves and the role of discontinuity. The author's experience of working with sexually exploited young women in local authority care, and women in street prostitution, provides a backdrop for the study. Findings are drawn from life story interviews with 14 young women with backgrounds of local authority care and prostitution and the ethical dimensions are also discussed. Young women reported that multiple placement moves within care were profoundly destabilising. Their capacities to develop trusting relationships with others and feel settled were limited by frequent placement breakdowns, leading to a kaleidoscope of ways in which they became vulnerable to sexual exploitation through prostitution. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.KEY WORDS: young women; sexual exploitation; placement; stability T his paper discusses fi ndings from an exploratory study that sought to identify how local authority care places young women at risk of sexual exploitation by unpicking the 'culture of care'. Research literature consistently demonstrates that looked-after young women are particularly vulnerable to sexual exploitation through prostitution (Friedberg, 2000;Melrose et al., 1999;Moss

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“…As a consequence of these various difficulties, all interviewees left school at an early stage in their secondary education. Limited educational achievement and early school leaving are commonly found in research with children in care (Mendes & Moslehuddin 2004b).…”

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“…These young people generally lack a reliable social support network and have to deal with the challenges of independent living on their own (Mendes & Moslehuddin 2004b). An important recommendation which would help address this problem is that support and counselling for young people who have left care should be provided until at least their mid-twenties (Maunders et al 1999).…”

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“…In Victoria, an audit of children removed from their families and placed in state care due to abuse and neglect found that they were moved, on average, between five different carers during any one period of care within the system (Davies 2002). As well as continual changes in placements, carers, schools and workers, some young people have also been subjected to sexual, physical and emotional abuse while in care (Mendes & Moslehuddin 2004b).…”

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Pathways to and from state care: The experiences of eight young people

Frederick¹,

Goddard²

2006

Children Australia

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Children enter state care because their parents are unable to care for them or because of abuse and neglect. Invariably they experience considerable distress and emotional trauma with many having clinically significant mental health problems. Few, however, receive the assessment, counselling and supportive services that they need. When they leave care, many experience extensive problems including mental health difficulties, unemployment, poverty, homelessness, drug abuse, relationship difficulties and lack of social support.This paper will discuss the findings of a qualitative study utilising in-depth interviews with young people who have been in state care. Illustrations of their pathways to and from care will highlight their experiences, and direct quotations from the participants will provide particular insights into the complex issues they have had to confront.The paper will outline key opportunities for prevention and intervention approaches at various points along these pathways.

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“…While official statistics clearly show that young adults often are in need of continued state support, the youth welfare agencies seem to adhere to rather restrictive politics out of fiscal considerations (Sandermann et al, 2007;Wiesner, 2007). Correspondingly, there is a clear preference for local and ambulatory service provision, while long-term and more expensive solutions are predominantly resorted to only when these have conclusively failed (Thiersch, 1999;Kurz-Adam et al, 2002;Messmer, 2007; for similar developments in Australia and the UK, see Mendes and Moslehuddin, 2004).…”

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Declientification: Undoing Client Identities in Care Planning Conferences on the Termination of Residential Care

Messmer

Hitzler

2011

British Journal of Social Work

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Heinz Messmer is a professor for social work and child welfare at the University of Applied Sciences North Western Switzerland. He holds his Doctor of Sociology from Bielefeld University and habilitated with a work on social conflict. His recent research interests focus on institutions of child welfare, social work practice and conversation analysis. Sarah Hitzler is a faculty member at the Department of Sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany. She holds an M.A. degree in Discourse and Argumentation Studies from Amsterdam University, and has recently completed her doctoral thesis on discourse management in care planning conferences. Her research interests lie in the fields of conversation analysis, group interaction and practices in aid and welfare institutions.Correspondence to Prof. Dr Heinz Messmer, University of Applied Sciences, North Western Switzerland, Thiersteinerallee 57, CH-4053 Basel, Switzerland. E-mail: heinz. messmer@fhnw.ch AbstractThat social welfare clients ought to be looked at not as given, a priori entities, but rather as categories produced in accordance with the policies, resources and options of the institutions involved is established today as a common ground for reflexive and reconstructivist perspectives in social work research. The disestablishment of the client role, however, up to now seems to have met a blind spot. This article will present findings from a conversation analytical study based on fourteen fully transcribed care planning conferences in the context of German long-term residential childcare, concentrating on five meetings explicitly designed to terminate the service provision. We will show how long-term residential care is regularly terminated by a range of interactional strategies complementary to those of client production that can be flexibly exploited in response to institutional and political context requirements. Conversation analysis is introduced as a method that can unveil the interactive practices professionals use in order to balance the constraints of institutional social work against the needs of the individual cases.

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Graduating from the child welfare system: a comparison of the UK and Australian leaving care debates

Cited by 42 publications

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‘Moved around like bags of rubbish nobody wants’: how multiple placement moves can make young women vulnerable to sexual exploitation

‘Moved around like bags of rubbish nobody wants’: how multiple placement moves can make young women vulnerable to sexual exploitation

Pathways to and from state care: The experiences of eight young people

Declientification: Undoing Client Identities in Care Planning Conferences on the Termination of Residential Care

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