The commission’s inquiry into the detention and care and protection systems of the Northern Territory has revealed systemic and shocking failures.

This paper outlines the latest iteration of changes within Australian child protection systems, drawing on a survey completed by child protection departments across Australia on change and reform planned or underway since July 2010.

This bulletin presents previously unpublished national trends in the number and rate of children admitted to out-of-home care (OOHC) by age and Indigenous status, from 2011–12 to 2015–16.

This report into aged care funding highlights a range of options to modify Australia’s residential care funding instrument.

The aim of this report is to examine children’s relationships with the people they are living with and with the members of their birth family, from the perspective of the children themselves and their carers in the first wave of data collection in the Pathways of Care Longitudinal Study (POCLS).