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Across Australia, there are almost 50,000 children and young people who are unable to live at home. These children may be at risk of harm at home, have experienced abuse or may have families that are unable to provide suitable care for them. Foster care provides safety and support to help these young people grow and thrive. We believe that every child and young person needs and deserves a safe and supportive place to call home.

Foster care can provide short and long-term support, helping families cope and get back on their feet or for many fostering provides ongoing, permanent care to those children or young people who may not be able to reunite with their birth family.

Reuniting children and young people with their families is always going to be the desired goal based on biological science. However, sometimes returning home is not in the child’s best interests, in cases like this foster care placements focus on developing permanent, stable and thriving homes for children and young people where there is the support they need to heal and grow.