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Home > Children's Books > Children’s / Teenage: Personal and social topics > Disability, impairments and special needs > Not Fit For Purpose: Disability rights abuse of children living with FASD in New Zealand
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Not Fit For Purpose: Disability rights abuse of children living with FASD in New Zealand


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Ruby's memoir takes us through her heartbreaking journey as a mother trying, yet failing, to access the right support for her child with high and complex needs as a result of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). The story addresses the flawed adoption process and the lifelong damage and trauma that prenatal exposure to alcohol does to the unborn child. It also broaches topics that remain taboo in our society, including: child to parent violence, the government's response to individuals living with FASD, brick walls, gaslighting, and disability rights breaches and abuse in state care. Ruby does not shy away from the ongoing trauma that these experiences have caused, not just for her daughter, but the whole family unit. It should never have happened.

Table of Contents:
Foreword 1 Wild Child 2 The Big Lie - The Adoption Process 3 Adoption Failure by the UK State Disruption in a New Zealand context 4 Emigrating to New Zealand and the Early Years 5 Diagnosis 6 Support by Caregivers for Caregivers 7 Going Under 8 On the Move Again 9 Services to Support Families 10 Home is Not a Safe Place To Be 11 High and Complex Needs Funding 12 Advocacy 13 Invisible Family Violence 14 Into State 'Care' 15 State 'Care and Protection' of Children Living with Disabilities Where do I begin? 16 BMS Model of 'Care' 17 Spiralling Down 18 The Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry 19 Presentation to the Ministry of Health 20 The Woeful Tale of 'The Providers' 21 A Raging Inferno 22 Chaos Flamed by the Supernanny Ways of Responding to Behaviour 23 Disability Rights Abuse in Plain Sight 24 Unethical but Tick Boxes are More Important 25 The Demise of The Providers 26 2022 - A Year Filled with Yet More Trauma 27 A Maori Provider 28 Plans That Are Not Plans 29 More of the Same 30 The Journey of Transitioning Out of Care 31 Court 32 When Reports are Ignored 33 Transition Plans 34 The Final Weeks 35 Post Care 36 Solutions and Recommendations: Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health, Child and Family Mental Health Services, Child to Parent Violence, Needs Assessment Service Coordination (NASC), The Providers, Maori Provider, Ministry for Children (Oranga Tamariki), Ministry of Disabled People (Whaikaha) Recommendations For Me Acknowledgements

About the Author :
Ruby was born in the United Kingdom. As a young woman, her desire to explore the world took her backpacking across many of the harder-to-travel countries. Following her love of adventure, Ruby emigrated with her young adoptive family to New Zealand in 2008. Unfortunately, since her daughter's diagnosis, the lack of awareness of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) means that every ministry has failed to support the family unit. Generally, individuals and their family's needs are ignored; they are shoehorned into services that are coercive and abusive. Ruby has written this memoir in a measure of desperation, to give families such as hers, who just seem to be invisible, a voice. Her aim is to highlight the inequities in policy and services for those living with FASD in New Zealand. Ruby holds an honours degree in social work and a diploma in mental health and addiction studies.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781738615902
  • Publisher: Ruby King
  • Publisher Imprint: Ruby King
  • Height: 228 mm
  • Spine Width: 14 mm
  • Weight: 300 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1738615901
  • Publisher Date: 16 Oct 2023
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 226
  • Sub Title: Disability rights abuse of children living with FASD in New Zealand
  • Width: 152 mm


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