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Date Time How children can help Aboriginal Elders during lockdown Mutual caring between Kinship and foster carers and the children in their custody emerged as a silver lining during last year’s lockdown, a new report finds. Pandemic-induced lockdowns have yielded stories of both hardship and resilience. This extends to the Kinship and foster carer community, which has weathered unique challenges as children are physically (and sometimes virtually) cut off from their biological families. A new report by the University of Sydney Research Centre for Children & Families sheds light on these experiences. Researchers surveyed organisations working with foster and Kinship carers in NSW throughout 2020, and found that various positives for Aboriginal communities emerged:

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