This study asks the question: how do families with children conceived using donor sperm operate as the children grow up? And looks into the state of these relationships. The follow-up of children conceived through the Anonymous Donor Sperm project was designed to assess the adjustment of families conceived by donor sperm when the children were...

This paper aims to contribute to the task of evaluating Queensland’s efforts to cultivate trauma and attachment informed residential care environments. This is achieved, firstly, by identifying broad therapeutic goals and core therapeutic tasks of trauma and attachment informed residential care based on an examination of the theoretical and research literature. The paper then considers...

This report presents information on the dental, audiology and ear, nose and throat services funded throughout the course of the Child Health Check Initiative Program. Although open to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children under 16 years living in prescribed communities, this program specifically targeted those who received referrals from their Child Health Checks...

This report provides summary data on trends in hospitalised childhood injury for 1 July 1999 to 30 June 2007. Information is provided for three age groups (0-4, 5-9 and 10-14) for each year; information is also presented on the top five causes of hospitalised injury to children in Australia. Almost half a million children were...

The blue card system was introduced in 2001 to address widespread community concerns about the number of children who had been exposed to significant levels of abuse in service environments intended to promote their safety and wellbeing. The system was further strengthened on 31 May 2006 to include screening requirements for foster and kinship carers...