Victorian child protection law reforms due to come into effect next month will give parents two years from when their children are removed to lift their game, before permanently losing custody.
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While the disability system has undergone significant and important reforms over the past three decades, many problems remain. We’re still failing to protect people with disabilities.
Whether you are over-protective or more laissez-faire, the chances are that someone, somewhere will be criticising your parenting style.
Responses to high-risk pregnancy and high-risk infants across Australia are haphazard, and legislation alone will not correct the problem.
In response to the tragic death of four-year-old Chloe Valentine in South Australia, adoption has been raised as a solution to a “child protection crisis”.
After a long period of expansion in the number of children living in out-of-home care, most modern child protection systems around the world have been labouring to prevent such placements. Instead, they’re…
In some jurisdictions of Australia, the rate of Indigenous children in foster, kinship and residential care on any one night has reached almost one in ten. This rate is almost ten times higher than non-Aboriginal…
When children are deemed at risk of abuse or neglect and are removed from the family home, they are placed in out-of-home care, either with foster parents, relatives or in residential facilities. The latter…
Experiencing trauma has significant implications for mental health. We’ve known this for some time but particularly since the early 1970s after observing and studying the effects of war on American servicemen…
Most people reasonably assume there is evidence of good long-term outcomes for children who come into contact with child protection systems. Why else would we intervene in the lives of children and their…
The tragic death of four-year old Chloe Valentine in South Australia has raised concerns that the state’s child protection system is in crisis. Following a history of abuse and neglect, Chloe’s mother…
Imagine you’re a child protection worker who has received a notification from a teacher voicing concerns about a child in her class. The case involves a five-year-old boy named Toby. Toby’s mum has had…
The horrific neglect and subsequent death of Daniel Pelka at the hands of his mother and step-father raises a number of questions about safeguarding procedures and practice. We are told teachers were concerned…
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Director, Arney Chong Consulting and Positive Futures Research, University of South Australia
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Associate Professor, School of Public Health, Georgia State University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor, University of Waikato
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Child Protection Research, University of Kent
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Associate Supervisor in Child Abuse and Neglect, University of Huddersfield
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Canterbury Christ Church University
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Professor in psychology, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Flinders University
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Senior Lecturer, Graduate School of Health, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor and Co-Director, Australian Centre Child Protection, University of South Australia
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Professor of Clinical Psychology, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer, Clinical Psychology, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Institute of Child Protection Studies, Australian Catholic University
