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Family Group Conferences, part two: Putting the ‘family’ back into child protection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2016

Paul Ban  and
Phillip Swain
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Abstract

This is the second of two articles examining the establishment of Family Decision Making in Victoria. The first ‘Family Group Conferences – Part One: Australia's first Project in Child Protection’ was presented in the previous edition of Children Australia. This article builds upon the first by presenting an overview of the evaluation of the Victorian Family Decision Making Project, and pointing to practice and other implications of the development of this Project for child welfare services generally.

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Children Australia , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , 1994 , pp. 11 - 14
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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