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This study reports the characteristics and needs of 2,045 young people who were under supervision in secure custody or detention in South Australia between 1995 and 2012 according to the level of exposure to the child protection system in an Australian jurisdiction.
The purpose of this study is to support the funding of Aboriginal-controlled research on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children under government-administered foster care arrangements.
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This article reviews developments in the Australian NSW child protection system which aim to reduce the number of children in state care.
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.
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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.