This report explores what Tasmania's out-of-home care system looks like, who is in it, how it is being reformed, and how it can be strengthened.

Independent, systemic monitoring of our out-of-home care system is important because it contributes to oversight of the out-of-home care system, which in turn improves the accountability of all those within it – from Government Ministers, to Government Departments, non-government providers of services, carers, and others. Through the Out-of-Home Care Monitoring Program areas that are doing things well can be highlighted, as well as areas in which things can be done better.  This report makes five recommendations:

• Recommendation 1: Making sure children and young people in out-of-home care have a say about their care and their lives.
• Recommendation 2: Making sure everyone involved in the care of children and young people in out-of-home care is doing a good job.
• Recommendation 3: Making sure everyone involved in the care of children and young people in out-of-home care knows about the child they are caring for, what they need and how they are going.
• Recommendation 4: Making sure we know about and promote Aboriginal culture.
• Recommendation 5: Making sure children and young people in out-of-home care can be healthy