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Out-of-Home Care – Where to Next?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 December 2015

Jennifer Lehmann*
Affiliation:
Social Work & Social Policy, Rural Health School, Bendigo Campus, La Trobe University
David Vicary
Affiliation:
Children's Protection Society (CPS), Melbourne
*
address for correspondence: Dr. Jennifer Lehmann, Social Work & Social Policy, PO Box 199, La Trobe University, Bendigo, 3552. E-mail: J.Lehmann@latrobe.edu.au

Extract

In the light of Dave Vicary's review of 40 years of publications addressing out-of-home care (OOHC) issues and current concerns about both the systemic context of child protection and the comparatively narrow range of options for the delivery of care in the sector, a range of people from Australia and beyond were asked for their responses to the question: Where do you see OOHC going in the next 40 years and what do you think our priorities need to be?

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