Abstract
This chapter presents Australian and international literature about the prevalence and characteristics of children and young people with disability in out-of-home care with the aims of: (i) summarizing the challenges arising from the absence of a uniform definition of disability and (ii) discussing the implications of using alternative identifiers for empirical analyses and policy recommendations.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Disability |
Editors | Gabriel Bennett, Emma Goodall |
Place of Publication | Cham |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 1-9 |
Number of pages | 9 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783031408588 |
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Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 28 Dec 2024 |