Jane Monaghan interviewed by Caroline Evans for the Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 6098859
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Monaghan, Jane, 1952-, interviewee
- Online Access:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2012
- 2 sound files (ca. 99 min.)
- Series:
- Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project.
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access: Online.
- Summary:
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Jane Monaghan, born in Ulverstone Tasmania, talks about her family background; her schooling and receiving a Commonwealth Scholarship; her early memories of life in Tasmania; her initial career as a teacher, and moving into social work (1978); her first impressions of work at the Department of Social Welfare, the work involved, the case load, court reporting, managing children on court orders, in foster care placements and receiving homes; the breadth of a child welfare officer's role; the process of assessing foster parents and how foster care worked to raise children as part of a family; the Department of Social Service's move towards keeping children with their birth parents; strategies for managing families with needs, working with local services to keep children out of care; receiving homes in Hobart, a form of short term care; the cottage system; conditions and allowances for foster parents; working with the Department of Social Service's institutions and homes; her marriage and children, returning to work part-time and later full-time; the effect of part-time work on career options.
Monaghan discusses the effects of changes of government on the area of child welfare practice; how receiving homes, became family group homes and were placements of last resort; models of care; the people who were employed in Special Contract Care; her duties in adoption work; assessing birth mothers and prospective adoptive parents; circumstances of relinquishing parents (1980s); work at the Adoption Information Service; the process of locating family members for adoptees; assisting people to get birth certificates and other official records; history of adoption in Tasmania, the processes and legislation; adoptions in cases of people aged over eighteen; changes in the job, increasing amount of administrative work; thoughts on the recent inquiries and their effects on child welfare practice; the benefits of national conferences of people working in the area of adoption, combining practice and research; the introduction of Tasmania's Adoption of Children Act 1988; her thoughts on the upcoming apology from the Tasmanian Government; CLAN; the future in child welfare in Tasmania; the pressures on child welfare staff, effects of restructuring and government policy; her plans for the future.
- Notes:
- Recorded on 30 August 2012 in Kingston, Tas.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (5 p.)
- Subject:
- Monaghan, Jane, 1952- -- Interviews
- Other authors/contributors:
- Evans, Caroline, 1950-, interviewer
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