FACSIAR publications and resources

This snapshot summarises the key insights from the 10 POCLS papers published in the Special Issue of Child Abuse and Neglect

This note compares the characteristics, parenting style, and wellbeing of relative/kinship carers to foster carers, including children’s developmental outcomes.

This note summarises child protection backgrounds, developmental outcomes, and connections to culture for CALD children in care; and implications for policy.

Ten years of data from the Pathways of Care Longitudinal Study.

This note summarises the factors that influence communication practices between caseworkers, children and carers, and implications for policy and practice.

This note examines birth family relationships for children in care and the influence on socio-emotional wellbeing, and implications for policy and practice.

This note gives an overview of Aboriginal children’s socio-emotional wellbeing and cognitive development, and implications for policy and practice.

This note gives an overview of children’s physical health, socio-emotional wellbeing and cognitive/learning ability, and implications for policy and practice.

This note provides a summary of key insights on student wellbeing and educational engagement and performance, and implications for policy and practice.

This note summarise key findings on placement stability, child developmental outcomes and outlines strategies to maintain placement stability.