Out-of-home care, Building a national research agenda

Authors

Judy Cashmore
Frank Ainsworth, Edith Cowan University

Document Type

Journal Article

Publisher

Oz Child - Children Australia

Faculty

Faculty of Community Services, Education and Social Sciences

School

School of International, Cultural and Community Studies

RAS ID

1717

Comments

Cashmore, J., & Ainsworth, F. (2003). Out-of-home care: Building a national research agenda. Children Australia, 28(2), 5-13. Available here

Abstract

his article presents the argument for the development of a national research agenda for out-of-home care and what is needed to make this agenda work. The need for a commitment to research, adequate funding and access to reliable data, plus the rapid transfer of research findings, into practice, is outlined. It also reports on the outcomes of a research agenda-building workshop sponsored by the National Child and Family Welfare Research Coalition and held in September 2002. This workshop provided an opportunity to generate a list of research question that researchers, service providers and practitioners saw as significant priorities in a national research agenda.

DOI

10.1017/S1035077200005526