RE: Researched reasoning for relative contact

["Hullin, Leigh" <Leigh.Hullin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Rolf and other list members,
I faced a similar question (again in relation to a child protection matter
before the Children's' Court)re comparison of outcomes for children placed
in kinship care vs standard foster care.  I undertook a literature review
which provided some limited data and have attached the abstracts of articles
that might be relevant (see especially outcome comparisons re risk of
further abuse, behavioural development and school performance indicators).
This literature mainly comes from the US and I reported constraints for
interpreting some of this in relation to my specific case (in Australia).
Hoping this information may help.
Leigh Hullin
Psychologist
Dept of Community Services
Sydney Australia


-----Original Message-----
From: rnilsson@families.qld.gov.au [mailto:rnilsson@families.qld.gov.au]
Sent: Thursday, 3 May 2001 13:34
To: Child Maltreatment Researchers
Subject: Researched reasoning for relative contact



Dear Colleagues,

I have been asked to provide (for a court action), some fundamental
reasoning based on current research which explains or reasons why :

1	Children in CPS (foster-care) must / should have (safe) contact with
relatives

2	Children in CPS (foster-care) must / should be placed (safely) with
satisfactory / suitable caring relatives in preferance to fostercarers

I have 15 years experience in the field and I am a regular here on the ....
BUT the question has stumped me in terms of recent research to base my usual
frameworks on!!

Please help if you can.

Thank You in anticipation.

Rolf Nilsson
Department of Families, Queensland 
AUSTRALIA


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