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Figures provided Out of Home Care Services, Child Protection and Family Services, Department of Human Services. 6 October 2005.

Type of care	Numbers of paid carers in Victoria at June 2005	Number of children in care in Victoria at June 2005	Notes
Foster care (all forms)	1408 43%	2267 47%	There are approximately 2000 approved carers in Victoria
Permanent care	967 30%	1375 29%
Kinship care	884 27%	1160 24%
TOTAL	3259	4802

Adolescent Community Care numbers are absorbed into Foster Care numbers.

In relation to the amount of work (or ‘traffic’) involved in the foster care program, which is of critical importance to the Department (other forms of care are relatively stable):

‘There are about 2,200 children in foster care (all types) on any one day in Victoria. However, about 4,600 go through the foster care and ACP out-of-home care system each year - not including children and young people in kinship, residential or permanent care’.