This article reviews Australia's national redress scheme proposed by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and proposes two corrective measures: adopting an inclusive understanding of sexual abuse in closed and open settings, and addressing the negative bias that may result from care leavers’ lower social status as children compared to that of non-care leavers.

This article explores the long history of institutions for children in Australia and of the existence of abuse within them.

According to this article from Guardian Australia, the government of New South Wales, Australia has moved to reduce the number of children in out of home care.

In this study, semi-structured interviews were undertaken with parents with intellectual disability who accessed a specialist advocacy programme in New South Wales, Australia. Thematic analysis was used to identify the influence of advocacy on parents’ experiences.

A report looking into child protection services in New South Wales, Australia that calls the system "ineffective and unsustainable" has "remained secret" since 2016, according to this article from ABC News.

This paper will examine recent initiatives to boost adoptions in New South Wales (NSW) and a way to roll out the core of these reforms nationally.

In this study, the authors interviewed 46 professionals who had contact with young people in residential care settings in New South Wales, Australia about their perceptions of the link between residential care and contact with the criminal justice system.

In this article, the authors explore whether current relational health (connectedness) promotes positive outcomes for child welfare-involved youth while controlling for developmental risk (history of adverse, and lack of relationally positive, experiences).

This paper draws on the perspectives of foster and kinship carers, describing the disconnection between their role as mental health advocates and their interest in early intervention in a field which is dominated by crisis and the historic marginalisation of foster and kinship carers.

New South Wales, Australia will be launching a new program "designed to give children in care a permanent home," according to this article from the Guardian.