The ocean is my friend
11 December 2017 This song lyric was offered to one of our advocates for publication by a young woman during a visit to a residential
December 11, 2017
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Category: Listening/talking with children
For abuse to occur, a child’s voice must be silenced
11 July 2017 For abuse of a child to occur, the first necessary condition is that the child remain silent, that their voice not be
July 11, 2017
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Strengthening the voice of young people in state care
20 June 2017 . I recently had the opportunity to speak with the Legislative Council Select Committee on Statutory Child Protection and Care specifically about
June 20, 2017
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Having a say in an adult world
This article also appears in the February 2017 edition of the Guardian’s Newsletter.
May 1, 2017
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The voice of the child
13 September, 2016 Themes from Nyland #2 The team from the Guardian’s office have analysed the 850 pages and 260 recommendations from The life they
September 13, 2016
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7 things young people in care said about ‘Having a Say’
26 July 2016 Here are seven things that young people in care told us while discussing ‘Having a Say’ at our youth consultation last week. 1 1.
July 26, 2016
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Young people speak about education and school
. This item originally appeared in the May 2016 edition of the Guardian’s Newsletter. .
July 19, 2016
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GOM – what’s in a name? – poll results
It started out as a neutral acronym, a convenient short form of Guardianship of the Minister, which made it’s way into common usage among professionals working
June 13, 2016
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New look Charter of Rights for 2016
15 March 2016 At the Charter’s launch at the Adelaide Zoo in 2006, then Minister for Families and Communities, Jay Weatherill congratulated the children and
March 15, 2016
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Young people in care got talent
The power of music to draw young people out of themselves and to draw them together was never more evident than at the Clayton Wesley
September 22, 2015
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We acknowledge and respect Aboriginal People as the traditional owners
and custodians of the land we live and work on, their living culture and their unique role in the life of South Australia.