Edited by the Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology

Fatally flawed: the child protection crisis in Australia

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PDFFatally flawed: the child protection crisis in Australia

29 June 2009It is not underfunding or an overwhelming workload that has caused child protection services to fail the vulnerable children they exist to protect, it is the failure to investigate reports and remove children in danger, argues this report.

Publication typeReport
Publisher TypeAcademic research centre, APO Member
CoverageAustralia
Permanent URLhttp://apo.org.au/node/17560

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