Fostering our Future - Summer Issue (This link will open a PDF document.) There's some good stuff in this newsletter from DoCS in case you haven't explored the resources available on their site.
New research from DoCS' Specialist Psychologist Services Unit has identified that 'neglect and sexual abuse can have the same impact on a child's mental development as brain injury'.
‘AN AMERICAN academic is to run a five-year study of NSW children who are removed from their parents and placed in foster care in the hope of finding ways to stop them becoming troubled teenagers.’ SMH 26/12/08
We hope that these is plenty of engagement with carers along the way. We have front row seats to what often happens, or doesn't happen.
