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Foster care

Alternative labels
Foster parents
Foster home care
Foster children
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Broader terms
Out-of-home care
Current term
Foster care
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Best interests: listening to children and young people’s experiences within the child protection system


This report examines the experiences of South Australian children and young people who have had contact with the state's child protection system and what they say needs to be done to improve it.
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Aboriginal Outcomes Strategy focus area 2 (out-of-home care) – were the targets achieved?


This report assesses the extent to which the Department of Communities and Justice (NSW) achieved its five-year strategy to reduce over-representation of Aboriginal children in out-of-home care.
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Report of the Independent Inquiry into Foster and Kinship Care


In late 2021, Fiona Arney was appointed to lead the Independent Inquiry into Foster and Kinship Care (SA). This report outlines the findings from the inquiry.
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Income support receipt for young people transitioning from out–of–home care 2022


The findings in this study have highlighted that the out-of-home care study population are in need of income support for longer or are repeatedly moving in and out of income support into their late 20’s, suggesting they are at increased risk of not being able to maintain ongoing employment.
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How children who exit out-of-home care to Guardianship Orders are faring: achieving relational permanency


This is the fourth report in the series of analyses using data from the Pathways of Care Longitudinal Study (POCLS) to examine the outcomes of children and young people who exited out-of-home care (OOHC) to guardianship orders.