Out-of-Home Care: Children's Journeys
This podcast series is based on the "Enhancing children’s journeys through out-of-home care" report. You can find links to the report and more information about our guests in the episode show notes.
Out-of-Home Care: Children's Journeys
Episodes
Project overview
This podcast series is based on the "Enhancing children’s journeys through out-of-home care report" — a multi-perspective study on children, carers and parents experience of the out-of-home care system. This episode gives the overarching ...
Understanding the social and emotional wellbeing of children in out-of-home care
Dr Iryna Kolesnikova and Professor Janeen Baxter discuss the social and emotional wellbeing of children in out-of-home care, drawing on research that compares their wellbeing to that of their peers in the general population. They also draw on l...
Hearing the voices of children in out-of-home care
Associate Professor Jemma Venables and Associate Professor Jenny Povey share findings from interviews with children and young people in out-of-home care. They highlight how experiences of connection and belonging are closely linked to social an...
Hearing the voices of parents who have been involved in out-of-home care
Professor Karen Healy and Dr Madonna Boman share insights from parents of children who have been involved in out-of-home care. They describe parents’ perspectives on the circumstances surrounding children’s removal by child protection authoriti...
Hearing the voices of those caring for children in out-of-home care
Associate Professor Jenny Povey and Associate Professor Jemma Venables reflect on the experiences of foster and kinship carers. They share how the carers described their motivations for providing foster or kinship care, some of the challenges o...