Health of Australian children in out-of-home care: needs and carer recognition.

Aim: Following research highlighting high levels of health need in New South Wales children in out-of-home care, this study aimed to quantify health need in a sample of Queensland children in care based on multidisciplinary child health assessments. The study also sought to examine the concordance between foster carers' health concerns for children for whom they are providing care and health need as established through referrals made as a result of health assessment.

Methods: Children entering out-of-home care in the north Brisbane area within the previous month were referred for baseline child health assessment.

Supporting fathers in the transition to parenthood.

Knowledge of the experience of parenthood is usually from a woman's perspective. The resulting outcome is that knowledge about the experience of fatherhood has been limited. Fathers are starting to change this situation by sharing their experience as is evidenced by the overall response of 267 fathers to this study.