Failed Ambitions: Kew Cottages and Changing Ideas of Intellectual Disabilities

by David Henderson and Lee-Ann Monk

The history of Melbourne's Kew Children's Cottages (1887- 2008) is the challenging story of an institution that failed its residents - and it is vividly relevant to today, when the rights of people with disabilities are the subject of a royal commission. Those with an intellectual disability were historically the most vulnerable in our society and the least protected. Governments continually failed them by underdelivering on ambitious promises of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 192263378X
• ISBN13: 9781922633781
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Monash University Publishing
• Length: 352 Pages