Resources

AFA submissions and resources as follows:

• Alliance for Forgotten Australians DVD (2011) Forgotten Australians: Life Stories (2011)
• Alliance for Forgotten Australians (2014) Forgotten Australians: Supporting survivors of childhood institutional care in Australia 4^th Edition
• Alliance for Forgotten Australians (2012) Social Work Education Project: Curriculum: Mapping for Content on Forgotten Australians.
• Alliance for Forgotten Australians (2013) Submission to the Australian Bureau of Statistics Propose a question on childhood institutionalisation in the Australian Census 2016
• Alliance for Forgotten Australians (2014) Submission on the Department of Social Services Commonwealth Home Support Programme Discussion Paper
• Alliance for Forgotten Australians (2010) Submission to the Productivity Commission Inquiry into Caring for Older Australians
• Alliance for Forgotten Australians (2010) Submission to Australians Government Department of Families, Housing Community Services and Indigenous Affairs Consultation on Draft Standards of OOHC
• Alliance for Forgotten Australians (2014), Submission to the Senate Community Affairs Reference Committee Inquiry into Out of Home Care
• Alliance for Forgotten Australians (2008) Submission to the Senate Community Affairs Committee Inquiry into Mental Health
• Alliance for Forgotten Australians (2010) Submission to the Senate Legal & Constitutional Committee Inquiry into the administration and effectiveness of current mechanisms used by governments to provide discretionary payments in special circumstances
• Association of Child Welfare Agencies (2004). Submission to the Senate Inquiry Senate Community Affairs References Committee (2004) Forgotten Australians: A report on Australians who experienced institutional or out-of-home care as children. Tuesday February 2004. Official Committee Hansard. Canberra, ACT: Commonwealth of Australia.
• Association of Child Welfare Agencies (ACWA) (n.d.) Submission to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee Inquiry into Children in Institutional Care
• AIHW 2014. Child protection Australia 2012-13. Child welfare series 58. Cat. no. CWS 49. Canberra: AIHW.
• Australian Human Rights Commission (1997) Bringing them Home’: the Stolen Children report
• Branigan, E., Malone, J., Murphy, J. and Murray, S. (2008) Beyond the Home Gates: Life after growing up in Catholic institutions. A report to MacKillop Family Services.
• Cashmore, J & Paxman, M, (2006), ‘Wards Leaving Care', Children Australia, 31(3), 18-25.
• CLAN (2008) A terrible way to grow up The experience of institutional care and its outcomes for care leavers in Australia 
• CLAN (2011) ‘Struggling to Keep it Together’ – CLAN Survey Report 2011, CLAN.
• Courtney, M. E. and Dworsky, A. (2006), Early outcomes for young adults transitioning from out-of-home care in the USA. Child & Family Social Work, 11: 209–219. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2206.2006.00433.x
• CREATE (2016) Transitioning from Care. Position Paper.
• Daly, F. and Gilligan, R. (2005) Lives in Foster Care. Dublin: Children’s Research Centre.
• Daly, K. (2014) Redressing Institutional Abuse of Children, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave.
• Dodt, D.J. (2012) Intimate Expression: An Orphan’s Experience of Healing, USA: Trafford.
• Duncalf, Z. (2010) Adult Care Leavers Speak Out: The views of 310 care leavers aged 17-78, Manchester UK< the Care Leavers Association.
• Ebbels, J. (2011) The Experiences of Women Forgotten Australians and Care Leavers – A Literature Review, Canberra: Women’s Centre for Health Matters.
• Fernandez, E. (1996) Significant Harm: Unravelling Child Protection Decisions and Substitute Care Careers Of Children. England Ashgate Publishing, Avebury.
• Fernandez, E. ‘Child Protection and Vulnerable Families: Trends and Issues in the Australian Context’ Social Sciences 785–808; doi:10.3390/socsci3040785
• Gaffney, K. Hiding behind the past: Understanding historical abuse in out-of-home care, Children Australia, 33(4), 38-44.
• Harris, F. Raising a Saint, Adelaide: Ginninderra Press.
• Hil, R. Branigan, E. (Eds.) (2010). Surviving Care: achieving justice and healing for the forgotten Australians, Robina, Queensland: Bond University Press.
• Healy, K. (2012) Remembering, Apologies, and Truth: Challenges for Social Work Today,Australian Social Work ; 65(3):288-294. DOI: 10.1080/0312407X.2012.705308
• Horrocks, C. and Goddard, J. (2006), Adults who grew up in care: constructing the self and accessing care files. Child & Family Social Work, 11: 264–272. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2206.2006.00432.x
• Kendrick, A. and Hawthorn, M. (2015) Dilemmas of care: social work and historic abuse, in Sköld, J., Swain, S. Apologies and the Legacy of Abuse of Children in ‘Care’. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. (In Press),
• Marian, Cherie.(2009)  Forgotten Australians Still Searching for 'the Road Home' Parity, Vol. 22, No. 1, Feb 2009: 36-37.
• McCarthy , G.  Swain, S. and O’Neill, C. (2012) Archives, identity and survivors of out-of-home care, Archives and Manuscripts, 40:1, 1-3, DOI: 10.1080/01576895.2012.680247
• McKenzie, R. B. (2003) The impact of orphanages on the alumni’s lives and assessments of their childhoods. Children and Youth Services Review, 25, 703-753
• Mendes, P. (2005) Remembering the forgotten Australians, The Care Leavers of Australia: Network and the Senate Inquiry into Institutional and Out-of-home care. Children Australia, vol.30, no.1. pp.4-10
• Murray, S., and Malone, J. (2008) Making life after care: the provision of support across the life course, Developing Practice, No. 22 (Summer), pp. 63-71.
• Murray, S., Malone, J. & J. Glare (2008) Building a Life Story: Providing Records and Support to former residents of children’s homes. Australian Social Work, 61, 3, 239-255
• Musgrove, N. (2013) The Scars Remain: A Long History or Forgotten Australians and Children’s Institutions, Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
• National Library of Australia (2011) Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants Oral History Project
• Pecora, P.J., Kessler, R.C., Williams, J., Downs, A.C. (2005),Improving Foster Care: Findings from the Northwest Alumni Study, Seattle Washington, Casey Family Programs.
• Penglase, J. (2005) Orphans of the Living: Growing up in “care” in twentieth-century Australia. Fremantle, WA: Fremantle Arts Centre Press.
• Queensland Government Department of Communities (2011). Snapshot of consultations with Forgotten Australians
• RPR Consulting, Findings of consultations with Queensland Forgotten Australians - Vol 2.
• Rudd, K. (2009) Transcript of address by the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd at the apology to the Forgotten Australians and former child migrants, Great Hall, Parliament House, 16 November 2009.
• Senate Community Affairs References Committee (2001) Lost innocents: Righting the Record. Report on child migration. Canberra, ACT: Commonwealth of Australia.
• Shayler, K (2011) Burnished: Burnside Life Stories:  a collection of life accounts from residents of Burnside Children’s Homes, Sydney: MoshPit Publishing.
• Sigal, J.J., Perry, J. C., Davis, M.B. Rossignol, M. & M. C. Ouimet (2003) Unwanted infants: Psychological and physical consequences of inadequate orphanage care 50 years later. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 73, 1, 3-12.
• State Library of Victoria, Adoption and Forgotten Australians: Forgotten Australians.
• Stein, M. and Munro, E., (eds)  (2008) Young people’s Transitions from Care to Adulthood: International Research and Practice, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
• Stein, M., (2009) ‘Promoting resilience: messages from research’,  in D. Hart (ed.) Managing Transitions from Secure Settings, National Children's Bureau, pp. 44-48 .
• Swain, S. (2007) Traces in the archives: Evidence of institutional abuse in surviving child welfare records, Children Australia, 32(1), pp 24-31.
• Swain, S., Sheedy, L. and O’Neill, C (2012) responding to “Forgotten Australians”: historians and the legacy of out-of-home care, Journal of Australian Studies, 36(1), 17-29, doi: Doi 10.1080/14443058.2011.646283
• Taylor, R.B. (2011) Who Am I? Perth: Chargan My Book Publisher.
• Whittaker, J.K., Fernandez del Valle, J., and Holmes, L. (2015) Therapeutic Residential Care For Children and Youth: Developing Evidence-Based International Practice, London and Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

• Fernandez, E., Lee, J.-S., & McNamara, P. (2021). Lived experience of Australian Indigenous care leavers: Narratives of trauma, resilience, and survival. In K. Kufeldt, B. Fallon, & B. McKenzie. (Eds.), Protecting children: Theoretical and practical aspects (pp. 146–168). Canadian Scholars Press. 
• Fernandez, E., Lee, J.-S., & McNamara, P. (2018) Understanding the lived experience of Australian Indigenous care leavers.  Kensington: University of New South Wales    
• Fernandez, E., Lee, J.S. and McNamara, P. (2018). Understanding the experience and outcomes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care during the Twentieth Century. Kensington: University of New South Wales.
• Fernandez, E. & Lee, J.-S. (2018) Uprooted from everything that attaches you: Long term outcomes of former Child Migrants in the twentieth century in Australia, British Journal of Social Work, 49 (2), pp. 523-545. https//doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcy070
• Fernandez, E., Lee, J-S., Blunden, H., McNamara, P., Kovacs, S. & Cornefert, P-A. (2017) No Child Should Grow Up Like This: Identifying long term outcomes of Forgotten Australians, Child Migrants and the Stolen Generations, Kensington, University of New South Wales, ISBN: 978-0-7334-3687-1
• Fernandez, E. & Lee, J.-S. (2017) Experiences and Outcomes of Adults Who Endured Maltreatment as Children in Care in Australia in the Twentieth Century, In Child Maltreatment in Residential Care History, Research, and Current Practice. Springer, pp. 419-460, http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319579894
• Fernandez, E., Lee, J.-S., & McNamara, P (In Press), In E. Fernandez, P. Welbourne., B.Lee, B., J.M Ma,. (Eds.) Routledge International Handbook of Child and Family Social Work Research: Knowledge-Building, Application, and Impact. Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon.   
• Research Report: 'No Child Should Grow Up Like This: Identifying long term outcomes of Forgotten Australians, Child Migrants and the Stolen Generations' December 2016
• Summary Report - 8 pages
• Video - Launch of the Report - 12 December 2016, UNSW
• Short Video - Launch of the Report - 12 December 2016, UNSW

Frequently asked questions about the long-term outcomes of Forgotten Australians (LOFA) study

What is the research for?

This research sought to understand Forgotten Australians’ or care leavers’ experience in care, after care, and what it is like for them now. Those who have lived in child welfare institutions or other types of care are known to have experienced significant disadvantage as a result of widespread practices within care systems that were psychologically, sexually and physically abusive and neglectful. As well as understanding the consequences of negative experiences individuals had in care, this study attempted to find out if individuals had any nurturing or positive experiences of care. This research contributes to the growing body of knowledge on the impacts of care on the life course, and will assist in identifying supports and services that would be useful for care leavers and their families generally and at particular times when they encounter difficulties.

Is my anonymity and confidentiality protected?

The surveys were undertaken anonymously online and where individuals completed paper based surveys they were returned directly to the University in a reply paid envelope. Information from surveys, interviews and focus groups could be accessed by the UNSW research team alone. In strict accordance with the consent given by people who participated in the study, the only people who have access to the data (from surveys, interviews and focus groups) ate the UNSW staff. The personal information obtained in the course of the study has been handled by UNSW in full compliance with privacy law, UNSW policies, and the conditions of the Ethics committee approval for the study (Ethics Approval number HC14015).

How does this study relate to the Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sexual Abuse?

The two processes are separate. This is a university-led research project. The other is a government-initiated public inquiry. Some have participated in both.

Who was involved in conducting the study?

The research was conducted as a national independent study by the University of New South Wales. The research team is headed by Professor Elizabeth Fernandez, with over 20 year of experience in research on children in care and vulnerable families, and includes Dr. Jung-Sook Lee who has expertise in research methodology and researches the wellbeing of children and families from disadvantaged backgrounds; Dr Hazel Blunden, an experienced housing and homelessness researcher; Dr Patricia McNamara; Szilvia Kovacs, a social worker, researcher and PhD candidate; and Paul-Auguste Cornefert, also a social worker, researcher and PhD candidate.

Where can I find out more?

If you would like more information or would like to clarify aspects of the research contact us at email: lofa@unsw.edu.au or telephone: 02 9385 1516.