Publications
Placement and Support
Achieving Service Quality Improvement - Best Practice Initiatives in Placement and Support Services 2000-2001
Adolescent Community Placement - Principles and Program Framework, September 1991
Adolescent Support Program Document, November, 1993
Adoption and Permanent Care - Legal Issues
Adoption and Permanent Care Learning Guide
Adoption and Permanent Care Procedures Manual (updated 2004)
Adoption and Permanent Care Services - Contacts
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
Audit of Children and Young People in Home Based Care Services
Audit of Kinship Care Clients - A summary report
Baseline Standards for Out of Home Care, December 1995
DHS and Relevant Authorities Fire Risk Management Standard March 2000
Departmental Instruction Relating to Community Services September 1991
Disability Services Initiative In Adoption and Permanent Care (DSIAPC) Program description and guidelines
Discovering You Are Adopted
Families First Model Statement - 1995
Families First Program - Aftercare Module, 1994
Families First Service Specifications revised, 1995
Flexipack Guidelines - November 1995
Foster Care Survey Report 2007
Funding Arrangements for Placement and Support Services Provided by CSOs
Guidelines for responding to quality of care concerns in out of home care
Home-based Care Handbook
Information About Your Adoption
Information for Adoptive Parents
Kinship Care Guidelines 1996
Kinship Care program model June 2009
Management Response to Inhalant Use 2002.
Partnering Agreement - School Attendance and Engagement of Children and Young People in Out of Home Care
Pathways to Partnership
Permanent Care Order Guidelines 1993
Protocol Between Protective Services and Families First
Redevelopment of Adoption and Permanent Care
Report on Permanent Care Program - September 2001
Residential Care - Substance Abuse Policy February 2002
Reviewing Kinship Care policy and practice
Revised Guidelines for Kinship and Permanent Carer reimbursement 2005
Shared Family Care: Program Description and Guidelines
Standards and Guidelines
Statewide Review of Out-Of-Home Care Services for Aboriginal Children and Young People - 1999
Voluntary Placements Handbook
Voluntary child care agreements and the Children Youth and Families Act (CYFA)
Was Your Child Placed for Adoption in Victoria?
When Care Is Not Enough