Evidence Review of Permanency Practices

Family and Community Services (FACS) has approached the Institute of Open Adoption Studies (IOAS) and the Parenting Research Centre (PRC) to review, design, implement, trial and evaluate of a practice framework for permanency support. FACS would like to ensure that the Permanency Support Program (PSP) is evidence-informed with specified approaches, techniques and strategies for parents and carers working towards permanency, operationalised at a behavioural level in funded services. The proposed framework proposed will make explicit the connection between activities—including essential quality and timing features of those activities—and the permanency results that services are aiming to achieve. The permanency practice framework will be developed drawing on approaches to permanency that are based on the best available evidence.