Article type: Letter to the Editor
1 September 2018
Volume 43 Issue 3
Article type: Letter to the Editor
1 September 2018
Volume 43 Issue 3
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A Response to ‘Weighing Up the Evidence and Local Experience of Residential Care’
Frank Ainsworth1 
Martha J. Holden2
Affiliations
1 School of Social Work and Community Welfare, Townsville campus, Queensland, James Cook University, Australia
2 Residential Child Care Project, Ithaca, New York, Cornell University, USA, frankainsworth@hotmail.com
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Frank Ainsworth -
Martha J. Holden -
Frank Ainsworth1
Martha J. Holden2
Affiliations
1 School of Social Work and Community Welfare, Townsville campus, Queensland, James Cook University, Australia
2 Residential Child Care Project, Ithaca, New York, Cornell University, USA, frankainsworth@hotmail.com
CITATION: Ainsworth F., & Holden M.J. (2018). A Response to ‘Weighing Up the Evidence and Local Experience of Residential Care’. Children Australia, 43(3), 2129. doi.org/10.1017/cha.2018.29
Abstract
We are in agreement with some of the points made in the recent article by Tregeagle, ‘Weighing up the evidence and local experience of residential care’ (Children Australia, 42(4), 240–247). For example, there can be no dispute about the high costs of residential placements or that achieving a stable residential environment is very challenging.