Category Archives: Blog
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Changing the future for care...
December 15, 2025 In the last sitting week of the year, the Victorian Government made a historic announcement that will change the lives of children and young people in out-of-home care and those transitioning out of it.... read more » -
How we achieved “the most...
September 26, 2024 Read Paul McDonald's article posted in the Australian Journal of Social Issues on the significant Australian child welfare reform. ... read more » -
A national approach to extended...
September 21, 2022 Foster carers and experts from Australia and overseas will use an international conference this Friday to stress the importance of extended care to the New South Wales Government... read more » -
Watch the personal accounts of...
April 29, 2022 Queensland’s refusal to extend foster care for its most vulnerable young people is “bewildering” given most Australian states now offer care to the age of 21...... read more » -
On the home stretch to a new...
June 24, 2021 "There was no way I could deal with everything the adult world was demanding I do..."... read more » -
The accelerated and compressed...
May 18, 2021 This article aims to compile academic research to form an argument alongside the Home Stretch Campaign, in favour of extending care to age 21... read more » -
An easy win for Queensland’s...
October 27, 2020 With the Queensland election rushing up to meet us, there is a simple reform that could be life changing – and even life-saving – for the state’s most vulnerable young people... read more » -
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Opening address at Qld campaign...
December 2, 2019 Chair, Paul McDonald opens the Queensland campaign launch ... read more »
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