Placement and Support
- Sponsoring relative children
(02 May 2008) - Information kit
(02 May 2008) - Important notices
(02 May 2008) - Confirmation of registration
(02 May 2008) - How to register your interest
(02 May 2008)
Placement and Support
Out of home care services look after children and young people when a family needs support, in cases of family conflict or if there is a significant risk of harm or abuse in the family home. Support services help the children and young people to cope with their experiences and assist their families to deal with the issues that led to the placement of their child.
Adoption services provide counselling and advice for birth parents, assess prospective adoptive parents and arrange the adoption of infants and children who cannot live at home. These children are placed with adoptive parents to form a new family, which is later legalised by an adoption order. Adopted children may have ongoing contact with their birth parents.
Data on Voluntary Child Care Agreements
Features
The Partnering Agreement reinforces good practice and offers strategies to strengthen the response to the educational issues and social needs of children and young people in out of home care.
The Placement and Support Unit within the Office for Children is reviewing Kinship Care policy and practice. Kinship care placements are the first preference under the new Children Youth and Families Act 2005 (section 10 (h)), and now comprise one third of all placements in Victoria - approximately 1600 children live in kinship arrangements.
This handbook has been developed from two main sources - Liaison with Foster Care Association of Victoria (FCAV), and the findings of Public parenting - a review of home-based care in Victoria.
The newsletter is for everyone involved in caring for children and young people who are unable to live with their own families.