This article explores how an approach based on he awa whiria can work in practice in the examination of the efficacy for Māori whānau (families) of the government’s intensive home-visiting programme, Family Start.

This report, developed by the Australian Centre for Child Protection (ACCP) in consulation with an Expert Panel, provides an analysis and evaluation of a range of child protection practice frameworks in terms of the way they respond to the values and principles and approach to working with children and families applicable to the continuum of child protection practice.

 In August 2016, Anglicare Victoria established the Home Stretch campaign to lobby all States and Territories to extend the transition from state out of home care (leaving care) age from 18 till at least 21 years.

This article presents qualitative data from interviews with 46 welfare and justice professionals to examine the criminalisation of children who go missing within the Out‐Of‐Home‐Care (OOHC) residential environment.

An Australian NGO, the Create Foundation, along with foster care agencies and other community support services, have formed a campaign called 'The Home Stretch,' calling on the Australian government to raise the age up to which a young person can stay in foster care to 21, from the current maximum age of 18.

On 15 December 2017 the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Response to Child Sexual Abuse presented a final report to the Governor-General, detailing the culmination of a five year inquiry into institutional responses to child sexual abuse and related matters. 

In this statement from UNICEF Australia, Amy Lamoin, Director of Policy and Advocacy, calls on Australia to take the recommendations issued by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and turn them into "non-politicised, results-oriented policy change and policy platforms for the protection of children in Australia." 

The Australian parliament held a recent inquiry in preparation for a Modern Slavery Act which examined the connections between modern slavery and orphanage trafficking.

The Australian Parliament has published a final report of its Modern Slavery Inquiry, which provides "a detailed blueprint for the creation of a modern slavery act in Australia." 

The Australian Parliament has released a Report of its inquiry into establishing a Modern Slavery Act in Australia. This Inquiry Report recognizes orphanage trafficking as a form of modern slavery to be included in the Act.