Home Stretch Symposium 2027

Join policymakers, people with lived experience, researchers, out-of-home care practitioners and sector leaders from across Australia and internationally for the Home Stretch Symposium 2027! With Corporate Parenting at the heart of this year’s program, the symposium will explore how governments and communities can move beyond care systems that end at 18 and towards a whole-of-government commitment to the people for whom they hold parental responsibility. Through keynote presentations, panel discussions, lived experience conversations, delegates will learn about new policy, practice and cultural changes needed to improve outcomes in housing, education, health, employment, connection and belonging.