Placement and Support

• Achieving Service Quality Improvement - Best Practice Initiatives in Placement and Support Services 2000-2001
  Placement and Support publication - Achieving Service Quality Improvement - Best Practice Initiatives in Placement and Support Services 2000-2001
• Adolescent Community Placement - Principles and Program Framework, September 1991
  Placement and Support publication - Adolescent Community Placement - Principles and Program Framework, September 1991
• Adolescent Support Program Document, November, 1993
  Placement and Support publication - Adolescent Support Program Document, November, 1993
• Adoption Information Service Standards 1994 [PDF, 132.5 kb]
  Placement and Support publication - apc_adoption_info_services_standardsv2.pdf
• Adoption and Permanent Care - Legal Issues
  Placement and Support publication - Adoption and Permanent Care - Legal Issues
• Adoption and Permanent Care - Statistics
  Placement and Support publication - Adoption and Permanent Care - Statistics
• Adoption and Permanent Care Learning Guide
  Placement and Support publication - Adoption and Permanent Care Learning Guide
• Adoption and Permanent Care Procedures Manual (updated 2004)
  Placement and Support publication - Adoption and Permanent Care Procedures Manual (updated 2004)
• Adoption and Permanent Care Services - Contacts
  Placement and Support publication - Adoption and Permanent Care Services - Contacts
• Adoption and Permanent Care Standards, 1986
  Placement and Support publication - Adoption and Permanent Care Standards, 1986
• Adoption, fostering, permanent care and beyond: Re-thinking policy and practice on out-of-home-care for children in Australia
  This two day symposium convened by the Department of Human Services and Monash University has a focus on out of home care in Australia, particularly on achieving stability and optimal long term outcomes for vulnerable children and young people.
• Audit of Children and Young People in Home Based Care Services
  Placement and Support publication - Audit of Children and Young People in Home Based Care Services
• Audit of Kinship Care Clients - A summary report
  Placement and Support publication - Audit of Kinship Care Clients - A summary report
• Baseline Standards for Out of Home Care, December 1995
  Placement and Support publication - Baseline Standards for Out of Home Care, December 1995
• DHS and Relevant Authorities Fire Risk Management Standard March 2000
  Placement and Support publication - DHS and Relevant Authorities Fire Risk Management Standard March 2000
• Departmental Instruction Relating to Community Services September 1991
  Placement and Support publication - Departmental Instruction Relating to Community Services September 1991
• Disability Services Initiative In Adoption and Permanent Care (DSIAPC) Program description and guidelines
  Placement and Support publication - Disability Services Initiative In Adoption and Permanent Care (DSIAPC) Program description and guidelines
• Disability services in adoption and permanent care 2006 [PDF, 124.6 kb]
• Discovering You Are Adopted
  Placement and Support publication - Discovering You Are Adopted
• Families First Model Statement - 1995
  Placement and Support publication - Families First Model Statement - 1995
• Families First Program - Aftercare Module, 1994
  Placement and Support publication - Families First Program - Aftercare Module, 1994
• Families First Service Specifications revised, 1995
  Placement and Support publication - Families First Service Specifications revised, 1995
• Flexipack Guidelines - November 1995
  Placement and Support publication - Flexipack Guidelines - November 1995
• Foster Care Survey Report 2007
  Placement and Support publication - Foster Care Survey Report 2007
• Funding Arrangements for Placement and Support Services Provided by CSOs
  Placement and Support publication - Funding Arrangements for Placement and Support Services Provided by CSOs
• Guidelines for responding to quality of care concerns in out of home care
  Placement and Support publication - Guidelines for responding to quality of care concerns in out of home care
• Home-based Care Handbook
  Placement and Support publication - Home-based Care Handbook
• Information About Your Adoption
  Placement and Support publication - Information About Your Adoption
• Information for Adoptive Parents
  Placement and Support publication - Information for Adoptive Parents
• Kinship Care Guidelines 1996
  Placement and Support publication - Kinship Care Guidelines 1996
• Kinship Care program model June 2009
  Placement and Support publication - Kinship Care program model June 2009
• Management Response to Inhalant Use 2002.
  Placement and Support publication - Management Response to Inhalant Use 2002.
• Partnering Agreement - School Attendance and Engagement of Children and Young People in Out of Home Care
  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.
• Pathways to Partnership
  Placement and Support publication - Pathways to Partnership
• Permanent Care
  Placement and Support publication - Permanent Care
• Permanent Care Order Guidelines 1993
  Placement and Support publication - Permanent Care Order Guidelines 1993
• Protocol Between Protective Services and Families First
  Placement and Support publication - Protocol Between Protective Services and Families First
• Public parenting: a review of home based care services in Victoria
• Redevelopment of Adoption and Permanent Care
  Placement and Support publication - Redevelopment of Adoption and Permanent Care
• Report on Permanent Care Program - September 2001
  Placement and Support publication - Report on Permanent Care Program - September 2001
• Residential Care - Substance Abuse Policy February 2002
  Placement and Support publication - Residential Care - Substance Abuse Policy February 2002
• Reviewing Kinship Care policy and practice
  Placement and Support publication - Reviewing Kinship Care policy and practice
• Revised Guidelines for Kinship and Permanent Carer reimbursement 2005
  Placement and Support publication - Revised Guidelines for Kinship and Permanent Carer reimbursement 2005
• Shared Family Care: Program Description and Guidelines
  Placement and Support publication - Shared Family Care: Program Description and Guidelines
• Standards and Guidelines
  Placement and Support publication - Standards and Guidelines
• Statewide Review of Out-Of-Home Care Services for Aboriginal Children and Young People - 1999
  Placement and Support publication - Statewide Review of Out-Of-Home Care Services for Aboriginal Children and Young People - 1999
• Voluntary Placements Handbook
  Placement and Support publication - Voluntary Placements Handbook
• Voluntary child care agreements and the Children Youth and Families Act (CYFA)
  Placement and Support publication - Voluntary child care agreements and the Children Youth and Families Act (CYFA)
• Was Your Child Placed for Adoption in Victoria?
  Placement and Support publication - Was Your Child Placed for Adoption in Victoria?
• When Care Is Not Enough
  Placement and Support publication - When Care Is Not Enough
• forgotten_australians_report.pdf [PDF, 1.7 mb]
• mch_service-child-health-record-children-in-out-of-home-care.pdf [PDF, 39.7 kb]
  Placement and Support publication - mch_service-child-health-record-children-in-out-of-home-care.pdf
• medicare-advice-for-cp-and-cso.pdf [PDF, 29.3 kb]
  Placement and Support publication - obtaining-medicare-cards-for-children-in-out-of-home-care.pdf