Child Safety
Community group Hedland Aboriginal Strong Leaders have welcomed the Western Australian Government's support to expand the operation of Headland House safe space to seven nights a week.
Every Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child deserves the chance to grow up healthy, strong in identity and Culture, connected to family, Community and Country and surrounded by the people who kn...
Western Australia's Child Protection Minister Jessica Stojkovski has flown to the Pilbara in the state's north after reports vulnerable Aboriginal children are being left alone in poor conditions, som...
The Australian Federal Police-led Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation has drawn on Indigenous creativity, culture and consultation to create two new children's picture books designed to su...
Senator Lidia Thorpe has introduced bills to Federal Parliament to end two harmful practices in criminal legal systems across Australia: the strip searching of children and the shackling of people dur...
Cape York Institute has urged the Queensland Government to put parental responsibility and community-led prevention at the centre of its response to the state's child safety crisis.
Warning: this report includes references to abuse. A senior Catholic cleric gave a young Aboriginal man alcohol before coercing him to have sex, a court has been told.
The Northern Territory's Children's Commissioner has resigned in a bombshell announcement, citing concerns about the Territory Government's approach to governance, transparency and child protection re...
Queensland's Child Safety Inquiry exposes deep failures within the child protection system and risks reopening old wounds through expanded adoption recommendations.
Children under the age of five will be removed from a state's residential care following a major inquiry's "shocking" findings. The Queensland government has revealed the significant policy change in...
An independent body designed to protect and support children in New South Wales' child protection system is urgently needed, experts say, arguing current accountability mechanisms are failing.
Almost 140 children under the age of 14 were held in detention in Western Australia in the last financial year without ever being sentenced, whilst mental health outcomes across the state decline.
A Special Report by South Australia's youth detention watchdog has warned that the frequent use of audio-visual link (AVL) technology in the Youth Court is undermining children's ability to meaningful...