The Pathways of Care Longitudinal Study (POCLS) is the first large scale prospective longitudinal study on out-of-home care (OOHC) in Australia. This baseline statistical report presents an overview of the study design and key findings over a broad range of areas that have emerged from the Wave 1 data collection.

Children and young people in out-of-home care across Australia have told CREATE that living with their brothers and sisters in care is very important and that they are the people they most want to contact when they are not living together. Our latest research shows that many children and young people do not live with...

Around 40,000 children are estimated to require out-of-home care in Australia and this number has risen every year over the past decade (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2014a). Young people up to 18 years who are unable to live with their birth families are placed in different forms of out-of-home care, including kinship care...

New data shows that the majority of homeless young people in Australia have come straight out of state care. Welfare organisations say the national survey of 400 homeless young people should be a wake-up call for state governments.

This article describes some of the work that North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency does when representing parents and families to assist them to overcome the trend towards removal. Introduction The Northern Territory is a place of extremes: extreme heat, extreme beauty, extreme poverty as well as rich cultural diversity. Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory...