Recruitment of carers for children in substitute care a planning framework and research questions for the Australian context

Lawrence, Ruth M.

doi:10.1080/03124079308411088

Australian Social Work

1993

DOI: 10.1080/03124079308411088

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Recruitment of carers for children in substitute care a planning framework and research questions for the Australian context

Ruth M. Lawrence

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The effectiveness of public foster carer recruitment campaigns: The South Australian experience

Delfabbro¹,

Borgas

Vast

et al. 2008

Children Australia

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Between 2004 and 2006, the State Government of South Australia funded a foster carer recruitment service to increase the number of foster carers within the State. Based on a combination of public advertising, community consultation, and a step-by-step process of assessment, the service was successful in attracting considerable public interest in foster care. However, only limited success was achieved in recruiting new foster carers. To investigate this, a retrospective survey of 347 people who made contact with the recruitment service was conducted. The survey examined several factors that might have acted as barriers to becoming a foster carer, including: perceptions of the quality of the service, the nature of the assessment process, concerns about foster care, and personal characteristics and circumstances. The results showed that concerns about the nature of foster care (e.g. nature of the children, their families and fear of being falsely accused of abuse) discouraged around 30% of respondents, but that the majority declined to continue because of inopportune personal circumstances or a fear of failure. The findings highlight the importance of providing greater community information regarding foster care prior to large-scale campaigns, as well as undertaking more specifically targeted recruitment strategies.

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The effectiveness of public foster carer recruitment campaigns: The South Australian experience

Delfabbro¹,

Borgas

Vast

et al. 2008

Children Australia

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Quality foster care: who decides?

Juratowitch¹,

Smith²

1996

Children Australia

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The selection of foster parents with qualities necessary to undertake care of other people's children is a difficult task. Little research has been done in identifying what the associated qualities are. This paper reports the first stage of a research study examining these qualities from the perspective of foster parents themselves and experienced family care workers. From a qualitative exercise involving 10 foster parents and 2 family care workers over 50 nominated qualities were elicited covering motivation; personal attributes; knowledge and skills with children and competencies emanating from experience. Arising from this exercise a model was constructed which identifies stages in foster parenting. This could enable differential educational strategies based on a competency approach to be developed in order to achieve a better level of quality control.

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Recruiting carers for children in substitute care: The challenge of program revision

Lawrence

1994

Australian Social Work

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Recruitment of carers for children in substitute care a planning framework and research questions for the Australian context

Cited by 4 publications

References 11 publications

The effectiveness of public foster carer recruitment campaigns: The South Australian experience

The effectiveness of public foster carer recruitment campaigns: The South Australian experience

Quality foster care: who decides?

Recruiting carers for children in substitute care: The challenge of program revision

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