Out-of-home care includes several different types of care placement. Foster care Foster carers provide a safe and secure home for children who are unable to stay with their birth family. Kinship care Kinship carers are people who care for children who are either related to them blood relations or who have a relationship with the child, their family or community. Aboriginal children Kinship care is the most common form of placement for Aboriginal children who are unable to live with their birth families.
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Kinship care is an alternative to foster or residential care. In the UK it can come about from a formal arrangement i. Kinship care is thought to have several potential benefits for children. These include letting them live with someone they know and trust, and increasing their feelings of identity and belonging. There is increasing research looking at different aspects of kinship care, including studies examining how the outcomes for children in kinship care differ from those with other care arrangements.
The effects of kinship care were reviewed in relation to 23 individual outcomes. Some of these focused on care outcomes, with issues relating to placement stability and permanency. For example, number of placements, length of stay, disruption, reunification, and adoption. The others focused on other child outcomes, including behavioural development, mental health, educational attainment, family relations, service utilisation and recurrence of abuse and neglect.
Overall, kinship care tended to show a positive effect on placement stability. This is based on high strength evidence. There is a significant link between being placed in kinship care and having fewer placements and less placement disruption.
The odds of having three or more placement settings were 2. For example, if 50 per cent of the children in foster care had three or more placements, this would apply to only about 25 per cent of those in kinship care.
Children in foster care had 1.
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