Residential care
Alternative labels
Institutional care
People with disabilities institutional care
Description
Residential care refers to long-term care given to adults or children who stay in a residential setting rather than in their own home or family home. [wikipedia]
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Monitoring report no. 2: key data on Tasmania’s out-of-home care system, 2020-2022
This report describes some of the key characteristics of the Tasmanian out-of-home care system, and provides data about the experiences of children and young people in care for 2020-2022.
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Child protection in South Australia from the Productivity Commission’s Report on Government Services 2023
This report provides a summary of the expenditure on child protection services in South Australia in 2021-22, as well as other child protection services program data.
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Life and death in long-term care: are we learning the wrong lessons from COVID-19?
This study presents a novel approach to measuring the performance of long-term care institutions during the pandemic, and identifies the factors behind their performance. Based on the findings, it proposes three areas for action that could inform federal, provincial and territorial government discussions on how to improve long-term care in Canada.
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Take notice, believe us and act! Exploring the safety of children and young people in government run organisations
This report explores the views of 59 Tasmanian children and young people to understand their contemporary experiences of government-run and government-funded services and to use those findings to inform recommendations about how institutions and systems might better prevent and respond to harm.
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Exploring pathways for younger people living in residential aged care
Aged care services in Australia are provided based on need and, due to a range of circumstances, younger people (aged less than 65 years) are living in permanent residential aged care. Using linked data, this report explores a cohort of more than 27,900 younger people who lived in permanent residential aged care at some stage...