This strategy sets out a shared understanding of what children and young people need and want in order to be well, and what the New Zealand government is and should be doing to support them.

This paper provides a snapshot of current practice of therapeutic residential care services conducted in Australia. It reports on the results of an online survey of Australian services, describing their configuration, characteristics and activities. It also summarises the views of services and discusses issues for the further development of this form of care for young...

This is the first of two reports by the Sentencing Advisory Council looking at the child protection backgrounds of children who received a sentence or diversion in the Victorian Children’s Court in 2016 or 2017. The project aims to explore the pathways that lead children into the criminal justice system.

This audit assessed whether child and youth mental health services are effectively preventing, supporting and treating child and youth mental illness. The Victorian Auditor-General examined how the Department of Health and Human Services (Vic) designs and administers child and youth mental services, and facilitates access and service coordination for the most vulnerable and complex clients.

This research report provides a summary of the data collected in the first three waves of the study – approximately a five year period. The report examines children’s child protection backgrounds, permanency trajectories and developmental trajectories.