This presentation was given at the Alternative Care Workshop in Bangkok in November 2005. It provides an overview of the situation of children without parental care, or primary caregivers, in Fiji and the child welfare system in the country.

The aim of this report was to examine the recruitment, retention, training, assessment and support of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people caring for children removed from their parents.

This paper is a national snapshot of Australian statutory child protection services.

A brief overview of foster care practice in the UK, Australia, South Africa, Uganda, and Tanzania. It includes information and lessons learnt on how caregivers are recruited and trained in these countries, how a child is placed, and how family support services are offered.

Upwards of, and possibly more than 500 000 Australians experienced care in an orphanage, Home or other form of out-of-home care during the last century. This report shares their stories.

Discusses the value of the UK Children in Need assessment framework for use by Victorian Family Services (Australia).

First published in 1999, this work draws together a multi-national collection of papers, and aims to stimulate the development of policy and practice in this often neglected area.

This report from Australia's Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission aimed to trace the past laws, practices and policies which resulted in the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families by compulsion, duress or undue influence, and the effects of those laws, practices and policies.

This substudy aimed to contribute to a larger study—the Ripple project—through exploring the experiences of practitioners working across child welfare and mental health services regarding collaboration in the care of young people; and to identify practices that might enhance collaborative work and improve mental health outcomes.

This checklist was developed by Kinnected, an initiative of ACCI Relief in Australia, to guide donors and supporters of orphanages in understanding how the orphanages they support are being run and how well they are aligning with best practices.