Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Glossary Item |
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METEOR identifier: | 459120 |
Registration status: | Children and Families, Superseded 20/01/2021 Community Services (retired), Recorded 19/08/2011 |
Definition: | Out-of-home care (OOHC) is one of a range of programs provided to children and young people under 18 years of age who are in need of care and protection. This program provides alternative overnight accommodation for children and young people who are unable to live with their parents. These arrangements include foster care, placements with relatives or kin and residential care. In most cases, children in out-of-home care are also on a care and protection order of some kind. |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Comments: | Out-of-home care is considered an intervention of last resort, with the current emphasis being to keep children with their families wherever possible. Where children, for various reasons, need to be placed in out-of-home care, the practice is to attempt to reunite children with their families. If it is necessary to remove a child from his or her family, then placement within the wider family or community is preferred. |
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Steward: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Origin: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2011. Child protection Australia 2009-10. Child welfare series no. 51. Cat. no. CWS 39. Canberra: AIHW. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Out-of-home care Children and Families, Standard 20/01/2021 |
Metadata items which use this glossary item: | Child—out-of-home care exit status Community Services (retired), Recorded 19/08/2011 Child—out-of-home care exit status, code N[N] Community Services (retired), Recorded 19/08/2011 Child—reunification type Children and Families, Superseded 20/01/2021 Child—reunification type, code N[N] Children and Families, Superseded 20/01/2021 Funded out-of-home care placement Children and Families, Superseded 20/01/2021 Out-of-home care exit status Community Services (retired), Recorded 19/08/2011 Service episode—funded out-of-home care placement Children and Families, Superseded 20/01/2021 Service episode—funded out-of-home care placement, number N[NN] Children and Families, Superseded 20/02/2021 Service episode—funded out-of-home care placement, number N[NN] Children and Families, Superseded 20/01/2021 |