What is it about?

This was an overview of the developments in the out of home care sector over the last 40 or so years.

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Why is it important?

This information summarise the knowledge and learning that forms a background for newer professionals coming to the sector.

Perspectives

There are many complexities, trends in care, and debates about the nature, efficacy and outcomes for children, young people and their families who come into contact with the out of home care systems around the world. We need to keep our knowledge contemporary without losing sight of the past and what we have learned form past experience.

Jennifer Lehmann
P I Jones and Associates Veterinary Surgeons

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This page is a summary of: Out-of-Home Care – Where to Next?, Children Australia, December 2015, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/cha.2015.53.
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