Residential care in Queensland originated with the children's institutions established in the nineteenth century. The deinstitutionalisation of the 1980s and 1990s coincided with a trend away from residential care, towards other options like foster or kinship care. In Queensland this trend has been reversed, and since 2005 the number of childen and young people in residential care has grown substantially.
According to the Department of Communities (2010), the model of residential care in Queensland is a trauma and attachment informed model, and "placements in residential care are time-limited, with interventions aimed at preparing the child or young person for reunification or transition to family-based placement or independent living".
By 2010, the non-government sector, with government funding, provided all out-of-home residential care in Queensland.
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11 February 2019
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