In Australia, the emerging model of child welfare policy and practice emphasises 'permanency and lifelong connections with birth families'.

The Early Childhood Agreement for Children in Out-of-Home Care (OOHC) was first developed in 2014 as a shared commitment by the Victorian Department of Education and Training (DET), the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV) and Early Learning Association Australia (ELAA) to support young children in OOHC in Victoria, Australia to access key early childhood services.

This article by Kathryn E. van Doore and Rebecca Nhep, published in the Griffith Journal of Law & Human Dignity, describes how orphanage trafficking occurs as a process of child trafficking.

This Review is aimed at examining the high rates of Aboriginal children and young people in out-of-home care (OOHC) in New South Wales (NSW), Australia and the implementation of the Aboriginal Child Placement Principle (ACPP) in this jurisdiction.

The purpose of this report is to: reveal how much Australian governments spend every year because children and young people have reached crisis point and highlight the opportunity of earlier and wiser investment in children to improve the lives of young Australians while reducing pressure on government budgets.

This companion paper provides a snapshot of current practice of therapeutic residential care services conducted in Australia.

This paper explores the leaving care policies of the Australian state of Victoria, and the reasons for policy "inaction" on providing post-care support to youth leaving care until the age of at least 21 years old.

This paper examines the recordkeeping governance requirements of the childhood out-of-home Care sector in Australia, with critical interlaced identity, memory, cultural and accountability needs.

This article reports a research study in Victoria, Australia, that explored nonfamilial kinship care through analysis of administrative data, interviews with young people and carers, and focus groups with kinship care support workers.

The aim of this meta-analysis is to identify the most effective interventions to promote parental engagement and family reunification in high-income countries.