The Guardian for Children and Young People’s analysis shows the cost gap per child between residential care (including emergency care) and non-residential out-of-home care placements has widened. Per child expenditure on residential care in 2016-17 was on average $670,142 compared to $48,005 in home-based care. The analysis also shows the proportion of children and young people in residential care continued to grow in South Australia, particularly for Aboriginal children. While 33 per cent of children in out-of-home care placements in June 2017 were Aboriginal, they comprised 38 per cent of those in residential care. “Home-based care is far more beneficial for children,” Wright said. “There is a lot of evidence to show where foster care and kinship care develops those loving relationships between child and carer and that sense of family, in residential care there’s a roster of carers and it can be more difficult to build closer connections. https://indaily.com.au/news/2018/03/28/sa-spending-inferior-residential-care-guardian-children/ Why?