Numerous inquiries into child protection services in Australia and internationally have concluded that failures in child protection service responses are in large part attributable to: rising demand on child protection services; a workforce suffering low morale who are ill-equipped for the role; families receiving too little too late in the form of intervention; and a...

The Holding Children Together Service, funded by the Communities for Children initiative and the Alice Springs Transformation Plan, has been developed as an innovative service designed to fill an identified gap in therapeutic service provision for young children in Alice Springs who have experienced trauma, abuse and neglect.

With funding from the Transforming Alice Springs initiative, the Department for Children and Families (DCF) have established family group conferencing (FGC) for families of Aboriginal children where abuse and neglect has been substantiated to reduce the need for child protection matters to be determined through court processes.

This paper aims to provide background information about the best ways of increasing the number of high quality foster and kinship carers in the Northern Territory

This literature review examines the prevention of and response to family violence, focusing on the engagement of Indigenous men in remote communities. This report includes information on: engagement barriers to engaging men service paradigms social exclusion changing the orientation of services to engage and support men exploring the potential role of a men’s space. The...