TY  - SER
AU  - Cleaver, Kerri
TI  - Acknowledging the struggle : : policy changes for state care leaving provisions
T2  - Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work
SN  - 2463-4131
PY  - 2016///
PB  - Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers, 
KW  - ADOLESCENTS
KW  - CHILD PROTECTION
KW  - OUT OF HOME CARE
KW  - SOCIAL POLICY
KW  - SOCIAL SERVICES
KW  - SOCIAL WORK
KW  - YOUNG PEOPLE
KW  - NEW ZEALAND
N1  - Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 2016, 28(2): 22-31
N2  - "Neoliberalism is not kind to vulnerable populations. Care leavers as a vulnerable population have faired particularly poorly under successive governments. Policy and practice have maintained a position for decades in New Zealand where care leavers are responsible entirely for their own lives at the age of seventeen. This article reviews current literature, locally and internationally, in order to identify the needs of care leavers in the New Zealand context. It will question what is working already, what works elsewhere and how we might change the outcomes for these young people who have not chosen this path and yet appear to be punished through the government turning a blind eye." (Author's abstract). This article is published in a Special Issue on:  Child protection, the family and the state: critical responses in neoliberal times. Record #5147
UR  - https://anzswjournal.nz/anzsw/article/view/221
UR  - https://anzswjournal.nz/anzsw/issue/view/30
ER  -