In this session of the Advocacy Sector Conversations Forum, Barbara Carter and Kate Fitt discussed issues around child protection and provided some practical tips on how to support parents with disability in their dealings with child protection agencies.

‘Monique's early childhood was the sort of experience that might have broken most kids. Now 19, she found a loving home with a relative when she was nine.

This Australian study was designed to investigate the factors that contributed to the education of academically successful ex-care women with the intention that the findings might inform current practice to promote the educational achievement of children in care contexts. 

A report by the Australian Institute of Family Studies found that stay-at-home fathers still spend slightly less time on childcare than their working wives. 

The objective of this paper is to scope the context of the problem of children going missing from out-of-home care in Australia and to distinguish what has been and needs to be researched. 

This paper presents a study in which seven children aged 7–11 years whose mother have intellectual disabilities took part in semi-structured interviews to explore their experiences with social support services and formal supports.

Article from The Courier Mail reports that foster families are carrying the heaviest burden in taking care of children in need of care.

New law requires a court order before children can removed from the Solomon Islands for adoption.

In this article, Kate van Doore discusses the need for establishing a Modern Slavery Act in Australia and explains the connection between orphanage volunteering and child trafficking. 

In June 2015, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse conducted public hearings in relation to out‑of‑home care (OOHC) and allegations of child sexual abuse occurring in OOHC settings (Case Study 24). In December 2015, the Royal Commission commissioned this national research report.