The Queensland Commission for Children and Young People and Child Guardian (the Commission) has released findings on health and wellbeing from its fourth biennial Views survey of children and young people living in foster care in Queensland. More than 2000 children and young people responded bringing the total number of surveys completed since 2006 to...

This report collates data from a range of sources to provide a contemporary representation of the status of children and young people in Queensland. This report shows that children and young people in Queensland are faring well overall. They are generally healthy, educational participation and retention is improving, mortality rates continue to decline and offending...

This paper reports on the oral health, including dental decay experience and use of fissure sealants, of Australian children examined by school dental service staff in 2008. The findings are drawn from the 2008 Child Dental Health Survey (CDHS), from which the data of 63,870 children aged 6-12 from all states and territories, except New...

As part of its Vision to ‘Make Australia the Safest Place in the World to Raise a Child’, Bravehearts developed ‘The 3 Piers’ to Prevention Research Audit. The research is a culmination of 15 years intensive research into how to reduce the incidence and ultimately, prevent the occurrence, of child sexual assault. ‘The 3 Piers’...

This paper explores the theoretical understandings of supervisory neglect and how these understandings might assist in delivering practical responses using a public health approach to child protection. Injury is the leading cause of death in Australians 1–44 years of age (McClure, Stevenson, & McEvoy, 2004). Transport-related injury, drowning, and assault/homicide were the three leading causes...