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Considerations of whether children and young people are deserving of help are reminiscent of 19th-century approaches to child services.
What's most concerning is children are being charged in out of home care for unnecessary and avoidable offences. We need to do a better job of placing children safe environments.
Rather than only reacting on a case-by-case basis, we need to recognise the root of child neglect and abuse comes from social inequities.
Kenya announced plans in 2017 for a long-term action plan to end the institutionalisation of children.
The new bill will make it make it mandatory for priests to report suspected child abuse admitted in confidence.
Supporting mums in prison and whose babies are in care to breastfeed has benefits for mums, their children and wider society.
Under international law, a mother escaping domestic violence with her children to another country is seen as an abductor. She is often ordered to return the child leading to catastrophic consequences.
One of the state's most significant powers is the ability to remove children from their families. Potential reforms in NSW could expand this already racialised power in frightening ways.
Young people leaving out-of-home care aren't receiving the support they need to further their educations and transition successfully to adulthood.
Despite high profile child abuse cases in Rochdale, Rotherham and Telford, lessons are not being learned and the failings of those investigations are being repeated.
Increasing numbers of parents are being accused of child abuse.
Underage police informants can't necessarily be trusted to provide accurate information, so why compromise their safety?
An evaluation of a therapeutic foster care program has shown significant improvements in children previously thought too complex and challenging for foster care.
In recent years a number of NGOs have provided services for child refugees. The government should consider partnering them to provide child refugees their rights to protection.
Young people in remote Aboriginal communities have high rates of STIs for a number of reasons, including inconsistent condom use and poor access to health services.
A new report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare reveals grim detail on the breadth of child abuse in Australia. But crucial national data on abuse in out-of-home care remains elusive.
New research assessing young people in WA detention found 89% were severely impaired in at least one area of brain function. One in three had fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD).
The Don Dale royal commission's capacity to make lasting change lies with the government implementing its recommendations.
The trial of the cashless welfare card, to control unhealthy spending in Indigenous communities, is being expanded partly due to emotive well-funded campaigns. Meanwhile, evidence is being ignored.
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Co-Director, Australian Centre for Child Protection, University of South Australia
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Professor of Criminology, University of Technology Sydney
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Former Director, NatCen Social Research
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Work, Royal Holloway
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Reader in Social Work and Applied Social Sciences, University of Huddersfield
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Professor and Co-Director, Australian Centre Child Protection, University of South Australia
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Associate Research Professor, University of South Australia
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Director, Kath McFarlane Consulting & Adjunct Associate Professor, The Kirby Institute, UNSW
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Scientia Fellow, Associate Professor of Criminology, UNSW
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Sarah Joseph is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Human Rights Law, Griffith University
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Professor and Demographer, Macquarie University
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Professor, Institute of Child Protection Studies, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Professor of Psychology, University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney
