This is the final report of a mixed method research project aimed to support the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (Royal Commission) in better understanding the life journeys of victim/survivors of child sexual abuse within institutions.

This paper argues that assessment of relational quality of applicant foster parents must be a routine component of care practice evaluations, supported by assessment methods capable of distinguishing individual differences on the relational indices of interest. 

Measuring trends to turn the tide on the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care in Australia

This review aims to systematically review methodological challenges and limitations of interventions designed to help foster carers meet the needs of children, to provide an analysis of the current state of the evidence base for these interventions. 

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."