Indigenous children are admitted to out-of-home care at 11 times the rate for non-Indigenous children. The lack of safe housing for mothers fleeing family violence is a key factor.
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Human capital is a key contributor to a country’s economy. Here’s how families and the state can nurture this asset.
Children in care have been treated as criminals, despite doing nothing wrong - and they need compensation beyond an apology.
Children who have been taken into state care need timely decisions on whether to separate them from their birth families. Delayed decisions means leaving children who have suffered abuse and neglect in…
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Scientia Associate Professor, School of Law, Society & Criminology, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney, UNSW Sydney
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Distinguished Professor, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Human Development, University of the Witwatersrand
