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...

This paper focuses upon independent housing pathways for care leavers and specifically reflects upon what makes a difference to care leavers’ ability to successfully move on.