Improving Contact Between Children in Out-of-Home Care and Their Birth Parents: Developing and Trialling a Contact Intervention

Grant number: LP130100282 | Funding period: 2014 - 2017

Completed

Abstract

There is little evidence on how to best manage contact between the 37,648 children in care nationally and their birth parents. The aim of this project is to develop and trial a new model of contact which will reduce distress, improve children's relationships with their birth parents and increase successful reunifications in the long term.

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