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Foster carers in Victoria receive just $231 a week –one quarter the cost of caring for a child

Exclusive: Report by Australian Institute of Family Studies found payments to foster carers fall ‘significantly short of a meaningful contribution’

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Stephanie Convery29 Aug 2026, 08:00 pmUpdated 1d ago1 min readAsiaAustralia

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Foster carers in Victoria receive just $231 a week – one quarter the cost of caring for a child

Exclusive: Report by Australian Institute of Family Studies found payments to foster carers fall ‘significantly short of a meaningful contribution’

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Louise Black has seen the good and the bad sides of out-of-home care.

Foster caring was common among the Catholic community in south-east Melbourne in which she grew up. The family over the road regularly fostered children, while also having four of their own. Black’s father, on the other hand, had been a ward of the state and spent much of his boyhood in some of the most notorious group homes.

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Source: The Guardian · Stephanie Convery. Published 29 Aug 2026, 08:00 pm.

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