Child Welfare
Western Australian Aboriginal leaders have called for an urgent roundtable in the wake of allegations children were left alone in poor conditions in a house in South Hedland, in the state's Pilbara re...
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...
This year's Child Protection Week (September 6-12) theme, Every Conversation Matters: Shifting Conversation to Action, is an important one. Because when it comes to Aboriginal* children and families...
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...
Families across Fiji can now access a free parenting app offering practical support from pregnancy through to a child's first six years. The Bebbo Pacific Parenting App was launched by the Ministry of...
The Fiji Government has partnered with Habitat for Humanity Fiji to construct a Child Wellbeing Centre aimed at supporting children who are street-connected across the country's four divisions.
The Northern Territory government has been urged to drop proposed changes that would make it easier to remove Aboriginal children from their communities.
Groups that get the best results in cultural support, reunification with kin and connection to culture for children are receiving the least funding, a new report from Australia's peak body for Indigen...
The federal government has "reaffirmed its commitment to addressing entrenched, intergenerational disadvantage experienced by families and their children and communities" ahead of the second Investmen...
Twenty children known to child protection authorities have died in the past year, including six within three months, sparking renewed calls to fix Victoria's "overstretched" system.
First Nations chiefs in Alberta are calling for more collaboration and consultation from Canada's federal government after a child welfare reform deal was rejected. The $47.8 billion (AUD 51.
A Broome man who used cable ties to restrain very young Aboriginal children he believed were trespassing on his property was found guilty of assault on Friday in Broome Magistrates Court, but received...
The Federal Court of Canada approved the First Nations Child and Family Services, Jordan's Principle, Trout and Kith Class Settlement Agreement on Tuesday, a First Nations-led agreement including a to...