This chapter from the book Education in Out-of-Home Care reports on a qualitative doctoral study that investigated the experiences of New Zealand care leavers who went to university.

In this chapter from the book Education in Out-of-Home Care the authors explore their journeys to and through university and doctoral studies, drawing in the experiences of other care leavers who have gone to university and care leavers they have encountered through their research into this topic.

In this chapter from the book Education in Out-of-Home Care the authors highlight ongoing legislative and policy challenges related to postsecondary education for care leavers.

This chapter from the book Education in Out-of-Home Care examines as case studies the Australian media coverage of final secondary results, juxtaposed with the experiences of several care-leavers currently attending a regional university, as gleaned from in-depth interviews and enrolment data-analysis. These accounts consistently affirm an array of systemic and cultural obstacles to the successful pursuit of their education.

This chapter from the book Education in Out-of-Home Care reviews the available research on issues related to early childhood education and care (ECEC) for children in foster care in Australia and reports findings on the ECEC experiences of 60 children aged 3 to 5 years from the Australian Early Childhood in Foster and Kinship Care study.

This Chapter from Education in Out-of-Home Care illustrates that increased resourcing is needed to facilitate the achievement of improved education outcomes for Australian primary school children in out-of-home care (OHC).

Drawing on interviews and focus groups with child protection social workers from three site offices in Aotearoa New Zealand (interviews, n = 26; focus groups, n = 25) and using thematic analysis, this study identified the case, internal organisational, inter-site organisational and external elements that contributed to threshold decisions.

The aim of this study was to examine factors and processes of change that occurred through participation in a residential family preservation/reunification programme from the perspectives of service users and staff.

This literature review sought to explore the perspectives of practitioners and foster care providers on the topic of young people in and exiting out-of-home care (OoHC) who become parents at an early age.

The objective of this study was to examine associations between being the subject of child protection reports in early childhood and diagnoses of mental disorders during middle childhood, by level of service response.