Auditing the implementation of <i>Looking After Children</i>

Moyers, Sue

doi:10.1111/j.1099-0860.1998.tb00073.x

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Looking After Children: a case of individualised service delivery

Yeatman

Penglase²

2004

Aust J Social Issues

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This is a discussion of the debate in the literature on the new Looking After Children system of managing out of home care for children. This is an important program initiative in results-oriented government that takes an individualised approach to children in care. The literature generally falls into the two categories of either relatively uncritical advocacy of LAC or its wholesale critique. These two camps pass as ships in the night and echo polarised epistemologies within policy analysis. There is very little analytical attention to LAC as an instance of the wider human service trends of individualised planning and case management.

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Looking After Children: a case of individualised service delivery

Yeatman

Penglase²

2004

Aust J Social Issues

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Looking After Children in Barnardos Australia: A study of the early stages of implementation

Dixon¹

2001

Children Australia

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Looking After Children (LAC), a case management system for children in out-of-home care, has been the subject of pilot implementation in several Australian states. Barnardos Australia, in association with the University of NSW, implemented LAC in all of its out-of-home care programs as part of an Australian Research Council (ARC) research grant, in 1997–99.This study looks at the factors affecting implementation of Looking After Children in Barnardos Australia out-of-home care programs during the initial twelve month period (1997–98). Information collected from interviews with eleven program managers, and examination of records containing LAC material on casework files, are used to explore factors which assisted or impeded LAC implementation. Similarities are highlighted between UK and Australian experiences of LAC implementation, and issues are raised of significance to agencies considering using LAC.

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