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Bravehearts founder Hetty Johnston said it was “about time” the issue of placing foster children in government-run “childrens homes” was revisited.
“I believe the government should look at this, I’ve been saying this for a long time,” she said.
“Those institutions (for children in the past) were horrible and they never worked, but it wasn’t the institutions’ fault, it was the people who ran them.
Category: | The Courier Mail
Bravehearts founder calls for the reintroduction of institutional care in the wake of Tiahleigh Palmer death
I am of the opinion we need to turn the clock back - some. Learn from the past and do things differently. Prisons, mental health, foster care and yes aged care.
We have persons with severe mental illnesses living in the community, because we do not have the facilities to house them elsewhere. Long term beds are few.
Are those living with a mental illness in the community being monitored adequately to ensure they are not a risk to themselves or others? How many of the 4000 on the register have a known mental illness?
That is not an excuse of course - I just wonder?
imo
I wonder what kind of housing is Hetty thinking of, big institutions like the Parramatta Girls home, large houses with ‘house mums’ or something like nursing homes with their own ensuites. Nevertheless the watchful care would have to paramount. We know what’s been happening in a couple of our nursing homes lately.
At least Hetty has got a thinking hat on.
My GF is a house mum who looks after several disadvantaged people where she cooks, cleans, takes them on outings, say to the bank.
Just thinking.