Webinar May 2020
Preparing young people to leave care during COVID-19
This webinar explored the potential impact of COVID-19 on young care leavers, and strategies to strengthen their social and emotional wellbeing.
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Webinar May 2020
This webinar explored the potential impact of COVID-19 on young care leavers, and strategies to strengthen their social and emotional wellbeing.
Practice guide Aug 2020
This short resource provides guidance and links to additional information to step you through a basic literature review.
Short article Jul 2019
This short article discusses the findings from a recent national study that examined the service use and needs of foster and relative/kinship carers.
Short article Apr 2020
This short article discusses key considerations for involving children and young people in research, using an AIFS project as an illustrative example.
Short article Jun 2020
This short article outlines how out-of-home care caseworkers can support contact between children and their birth families during social restrictions.
Policy and practice paper Sep 2018
An overview of the economic costs of child abuse and neglect to the departments responsible for child protection services in Australia
Policy and practice paper Jan 2020
A snapshot of the rates of involvement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in child protection and out-of-home care during 2016–2017
Resource sheet Feb 2023
An overview of conceptual definitions of abusive and neglectful behaviours, and legislative definitions of "a child in need of protection"
Research programs
An information exchange for practitioners, policy-makers and service providers working with children, families and communities.
Family Matters article Mar 2016
This article describes the development of a panel of experts commissioned in 2014 by the Australian Government Department of Social Services to help service providers in the family support sector to deliver evidence-based programs and practices, s well as discussing its processes, management, evaluation, and initial projects.