Child protection workers used a method that has been criticised as “unduly optimistic” when they investigated Kumanjayi ...

Caring for just three children in state care with extremely complex needs is costing taxpayers a combined $3.8m a year, it ...

An inquiry by the Commission for Children and Young People has found Victorian children are falling through the cracks in a system under overwhelming pressure. Its report analyses the deaths of 35 ...

(Sydney) – Western Australia’s child protection authorities are disproportionately removing children from Aboriginal families and placing them in out-of-home care, Human Rights Watch said in a report ...

Child safety and wellbeing is never far from the headlines, and no more so than recently, with shocking allegations of child sexual abuse in childcare centres. These revelations have sparked ...

Across Australia, there is growing concern about young people not offending independently but allegedly being recruited, coerced and manipulated by adults into committing crime. Recent examples ...

Image: First Nations experts and advocates have condemned proposed changes to the NT child protection system that they say could do 'generations' of harm. Source: AAP Image/Melanie Foster. (AAPIMAGE) ...