New Report Reveals Grim Lack of Progress to Cut Overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Kids in Out-of-Home-Care

The latest Family Matters report released by the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care, an Australian non-governmental peak body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children – reveals that there are there more than 22,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care.

The report – released by the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care, a national non-governmental peak body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children – reveals:

• there are there more than 22,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care

• our children are being removed as infants and not being placed with kin

• they are staying in care long-term and without reunification plans.