This systematic review examines the comparative effectiveness of foster and kinship care interventions for trauma.

This systematic review examines the comparative effectiveness of foster and kinship care interventions.

This dispatch from Human Rights Watch describes the abuses and mistreatment of aboriginal children held in detention centers in northern Australia, highlighting the findings of a royal commission released on Friday. 

Projects Abroad, "One of the biggest 'voluntourism' companies in the world," will be discontinuing its orphanage trips at the end of this year, according to the article. 

This Opinion Piece traces the rise of statutory kinship care in Australia from the progressive reduction of residential care and the struggle to recruit sufficient foster carers to meet demand for protective care.

This research report reviews the child protection and adoption policies in Australia and the long-term plan of the New South Wales (NSW) government "to restructure the operation of the child protection system to increase sustainability and improve performance by achieving permanency for more children."

This qualitative study explored a relational practice approach with parents whose children have been removed into out-of-home care in Australia.

This article focuses on the experiences of women who have been resettled in Australia as refugees from Africa, and who have, upon their resettlement, had their children forcibly removed from their care as a result of concerns over child protection. 

This bulletin presents previously unpublished Australian national trends in the number and rate of children admitted to out-of-home-care by age and Indigenous status, from 2011–12 to 2015–16.

Both historical and contemporary residential care for children have been found to present risks to their safety and security. Views about the characteristics of workers that helped them to feel safe in the placement were obtained from 27 children and young people who were placed in residential care in Australia.