Trends in formal child welfare globally -
alternative care
• In many countries, increasing challenge to deliver sufficient viable
good quality placements for all the children needing them
• Challenges in
• Recruiting and retaining carers in 'Stranger' foster care
• Delivering consistently good quality residential care
• Finding relevant models of support for kinship / relative care (inside and
outside the formal alternative care system)
• [Adoption from care - probably not likely to be the gamechanger
many policy initiatives have assumed]