Evidence Base on Good Practice in Schools to Meet the Needs of Students Living in Out-Of-Home Care

This report has been prepared for the Western Australian Department of Education and aims to identify good practice in schools for supporting children in out-of-home care. It presents a rapid review of the evidence from peer reviewed studies published in English in the last decade with a primary aim of supporting academic and/or social-emotional development needs and outcomes for children and youth in out-of-home care that had been (or could be) delivered in schools. Eighteen studies met the inclusion criteria; fourteen of which used an experimental or quasi-experimental design and one used a cross-sectional design using baseline data for an Randomised Control Trial. Two mixed methods and one qualitative study were included that reported on emerging practices or elicited youth perspectives that would otherwise not have been represented in the review.