Child Placement
States and Territories must place greater emphasis on ensuring children entering child protection are placed with relatives or kin, experts say.
The number of Indigenous children in out-of-home care (OOHC) in South Australia has increased by more than 33 per cent in the last five years, a report from the state's Guardian for children and young...
New data from the Australian Institute for Health and Welfare (AIHW) has revealed Most Indigenous children removed from their home in the Northern Territory are not placed with an Aboriginal family or...
Almost 24,000 Indigenous children were placed in care at least once in the last financial year, new data has revealed. The latest figures from the Productivity Commission shows 23,956 First Nations ch...
Proposed law changes in the Northern Territory will undermine basic protections for Indigenous children to be able to grow up with their culture and community, the First Nations children's commissione...
The ACT's inaugural Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People has criticised Enduring Parental Responsibility (EPR), arguing it fails to recognise and protect th...
An "institutionally racist" child protection system is trampling on First Nations children, according to a scathing report released by South Australia's Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Young...
Two Aboriginal children stuck in the UK child protection system without passports or visas "beggars' belief," with the nation's peak body for Indigenous children urging them to be brought home immedia...
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