Some people may find content on this website distressing.
Read more
Victoria - Organisation
Care Leavers Australia Network (2000 - )
- From
- 2000
Sydney
- Categories
- Advocacy Body, Records Access Service and Support Service
- Alternative Names
- Care Leavers Australasia Network (Also known as)
- CLAN (Acronym)
- Website
- http://www.clan.org.au/
Care Leavers Australia Network (CLAN), founded in 2000 in Sydney, is a support and advocacy group for people brought up in care away from their family as state wards or children raised in Children's Homes, orphanages or other institutions, or in foster care. CLAN is also for anyone who has a close family member who was placed in 'care'. The founding members of CLAN are Leonie Sheedy and Joanna Penglase, both 'care leavers' who had for years been involved in awareness-raising about the issues facing people who experienced out of home 'care' as children.
Publications
Books
- Penglase, Joanna, Orphans of the living: growing up in 'care' in twentieth-century Australia, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, 2005. Details
Reports
- 'Time for a Royal Commission', Annual Report 2011-2012, Care Leavers of Australia Network (CLAN), 2012. Details
Online Resources
- 'Care Leavers Australia Network Transcript, Melbourne, 17 December 2012', in Inquiry into the handling of child abuse by religious and other organisations, Parliament of Victoria, 2012, http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/images/stories/committees/fcdc/inquiries/57th/Child_Abuse_Inquiry/CLAN_17-Dec-12.pdf. Details
- Care Leavers Australia Network, ''Our Child Welfare Ideas are Medieval': A Submission by Care Leavers Australia Network (CLAN) to the Inquiry into the handling of child abuse by religious and other organisations', in Inquiry into the handling of child abuse by religious and other organisations, Parliament of Victoria, 2012, http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/images/stories/committees/fcdc/inquiries/57th/Child_Abuse_Inquiry/Submissions/Care_Leavers_Australia_Network_CLAN.pdf. Details
- Cherrie, Bryan, 'Bryan Cherrie Transcript 4 February 2013', in Inquiry into the handling of child abuse by religious and other organisations, Victorian Government, 4 February 2013, http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/fcdc/article/1786. Details
- Murphy, Teresa, Institutional child abuse: Brighton's house of horrors, Bayside Review Local, 29 January 2013, https://issuu.com/theweeklyreview.com.au/docs/basysidereviewlocal300113. Details
- Penglase, Joanna and Lindal Sambrook, A terrible way to grow up: the experience of institutional care and its outcomes for care leavers in Australia, Care Leavers Australia Network (CLAN), November 2008, https://web.archive.org/web/20180326044212/http://www.clan.org.au/reference/publications/survey/. Details
- Sheedy, Leonie, ''"Unfinished business": reflections on my experiences of being raised as a state ward of Victoria', Ms Leonie Sheedy (submission no 33)', in Inquiry into Institutional Care: Submissions received as at 17/03/05, Commonwealth of Australia, http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Community_Affairs/Completed_inquiries/2004-07/inst_care/submissions/sublist. Details
- Zwartz, Barney, Prison better than homes: abused boys, The Age, 17 December 2012, http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/prison-better-than-homes-abused-boys-20121217-2bip4.html. Details
Photos
- Title
- The advertisement that started it all
- Type
- Image
- Date
- c. 2000
- Source
- Care Leavers Australia Network (CLAN)
Details
- Title
- Opening presentation by Vladimir Selakovic, Care Leavers of Australia Network (CLAN)
- Type
- Document
- Date
- 15 April 2010
Details
Prepared by: Cate O'Neill
Created: 6 March 2009, Last modified: 7 June 2016
