This resource sheet provides a brief history of developments in child protection services in Australia and internationally. Social and political interest in the protection of children from abuse or neglect at the hands of caregivers is a relatively recent phenomenon. Since the early colonial days in Australia, there have been some forms of protection for...

Evidence for the impact of media-based social marketing campaigns related to child protection, parenting and child abuse prevention is examined in this paper. Social marketing campaigns are a common strategy for raising awareness about social problems such as child abuse and neglect. However, questions have been raised about the role social marketing campaigns could play...

The Snapshot 2010 statistical report, the eighth in the series, is a collation of relevant information on the key domains of health and wellbeing, and the key issues affecting children and young people, particularly the most vulnerable in our society. Snapshot continues to evolve through the inclusion of emergent issues where new data collections become...

A focus on prevention, collaboration, greater Aboriginal involvement and control of service delivery, and strengthening families and systems are at the heart of recommendations by the Inquiry into the Child Protection System in the Northern Territory.

The Guardian’s office has released A Community Visitor Program for Children in State Care reporting on the feasibility of introducing a community visitor program for children and young people in state care in South Australia to promote the rights and monitor the wellbeing of young people in residential or inpatient facilities, foster homes, secure sites...