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The FCAV Research & Data Library is a collection of the latest reports, inquiries, reviews, audits and research relating to foster care, out-of-home care and the experiences of children and carers in Victoria and across Australia.

These reports can inform and provide solutions to the service delivery and systemic issues facing foster care, based on three types of information/reporting essential for informed decision making including statistical data, research, and analysis.
Highlights the growing pressure on Victoria’s Out-of-Home Care system.
Victorian Auditor-General's report into Out-of-Home Care services
FCAV conducts a state-wide snapshot of foster carer data in March each year
Foster Carer Snapshot 2026
DFFH additional service delivery data
CCYP "Left Behind". Systemic inquiry into responses to children and young people who are the subject of multiple reports to Child Protection
AIFS recommendations "carer payments are too low and do not help carers enough with the cost of caring."
Australian Institute of Family Studies - Review of payments for carers
S. Sandford, Australian Catholic University
Keeping OOHC Strong In Victoria
Table 7.2: Households commencing and exiting care, by state or territory, 2023–24
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare child protection data
Balancing the high personal costs and rewards in providing foster care: Experiences of non-related foster carers in Australia
Table 7.2: Households commencing and exiting care, by state and territory, 2022-23
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare child protection data
Carer household numbers
FCAV Carer Census 2024
FCAV Carer Snapshot 2023-2024
Economic Value of Foster Care - Cube Group
"Let Us Learn" Education for Young People in Care Inquiry - CCYP
Care Allowance Campaign
Comparative Care Allowance Rates across Australia
Enhancing the Attraction and Retention of Foster Carers in Victoria: Policy Considerations
Systemic inquiry into the lived experience of children and young people in the Victorian out of home care system
FCAV Carer Strategy Discussion paper
Carer Strategy - Strong Carers, Stronger Children
CIMS Review - Cube
DFFH Carer Census 2021 - EY
DFFH Annual Report 23-24
Child Protection additional service delivery data 2021 2022
Child Protection additional service delivery data 2022 2023
Safe and Supported: The National Framework for Protecting Australia's Children 2021 - 2031
Australian Human Rights Commission on Australia’s approach to child justice and wellbeing
Commission for Children and Young People Inquiry into the adequacy of the provision of residential care services to Victorian children and young people who have been subject to sexual abuse or sexual exploitation whilst residing in residential care.
“...as a good parent would...” CCYP, August 2015

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