Preventing harmful sexual behaviour and child sexual exploitation for children & young people living in residential care: A scoping review in the Australian context

G McKibbin - Children and Youth Services Review, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Harmful Sexual Behavior and Child Sexual Exploitation are problems of significant
proportion for children & young people living in out-of-home care. The aim of this review was …

A conceptual analysis of system responses to the issue of problematic sexual behaviors in children and recommendations for future work in Children's Advocacy …

M Harris, D Lanni, S Svendsen - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Problematic sexual behavior (PSB) in children is a common, yet frequently misunderstood
and mishandled issue facing communities. Because of the intersection of children both …

Young people's views on safety and preventing abuse and harm in residential care:“It's got to be better than home”

T Moore, M McArthur, J Death, C Tilbury… - Children and Youth …, 2017 - Elsevier
Young people who live in residential care are at greater risk of experiencing sexual abuse
and other forms of abuse than those living in other out of home care placements. To better …

“Talking about child sexual abuse would have helped me”: Young people who sexually abused reflect on preventing harmful sexual behavior

G McKibbin, C Humphreys, B Hamilton - Child abuse & neglect, 2017 - Elsevier
Harmful sexual behavior carried out by children and young people accounts for about half of
all child sexual abuse perpetration. The aim of this study was to draw on the insights of …

'We Don't do Measure and Quotes': How Agency Responses Criminalise and Endanger the Safety of Children Missing in Care in New South Wales, Australia

E Colvin, K McFARLANE, A Gerard… - The Howard Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents qualitative data from interviews with 46 welfare and justice
professionals to examine the criminalisation of children who go missing within the Out‐Of …

Exploring strategies for re‐engaging children and young people in learning while living in out‐of‐home care in the Northern Territory, Australia

S Roche, P Dunk‐West, C Otarra… - Child & Family …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The education of children living in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) has been a long‐standing
concern for children and their carers, policy‐makers and researchers who have long …

Child safety in policy: Who is being kept safe and from what?

MA Powell, A Graham, A Canosa… - Social Policy & …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Keeping children safe from harm is a national policy priority in Australia. Extensive inquiries
and reviews have highlighted institutions' persistent failures to respond ethically and …

Respecting sexual safety: A program to prevent sexual exploitation and harmful sexual behaviour in out-of-home care

G McKibbin, N Halfpenny, C Humphreys - Australian Social Work, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
For children and young people living in residential care, recent Victorian and national
inquiries have found that harmful sexual behaviour carried out by children and young …

'There's More to be Done;“Sorry” is Just a Word': Legacies of Out-of-Home Care in the 20th Century

E Fernandez, JS Lee, W Foote, H Blunden… - Children …, 2017 - cambridge.org
This research explored the experiences of care leavers, who lived in institutions (such as
Children's Homes and orphanages) or other forms of out-of-home care between 1930 and …

Interpretative phenomenological analysis of young people's lived experiences of therapeutic residential care

K Kor, E Fernandez, J Spangaro - Child & Family Social Work, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Concerns of maltreatment and poor outcomes persist in residential care despite numerous
government inquiries and recommendations. Young people in residential care continue to …