This study addresses the disproportionate incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in Australia by co-designing an Indigenous community-led, culturally responsive prevention framework. The resulting framework comprises three interconnected levels: universal outcomes for thriving children, connected families and empowered communities, rights-based systemic reforms, and culturally grounded program elements across the life course.

This report analyses the sentencing of category A and B serious youth offences from their introduction in February 2018 to 30 June 2024. It identifies the most common offences sentenced in Victorian courts, the sentences imposed on children and young people, and the age and gender of children and young people who committed those offences.

This report considers the exercise and enjoyment of human rights by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, including progress, barriers impeding enjoyment, and approaches required to uphold and protect rights. The report reveals systemic inequality for First Peoples. It includes a Blueprint for a fair and just future for First Peoples and 25 recommendations.

The forum brought together Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations, community members, policy leaders, researchers and government representatives to share knowledge, strengthen partnerships and shape the direction of reform across the New South Wales child and family sector. It combined policy updates, lived experience, place-based practice and strategic discussion in ways that reflected the work underway.

This study examined associations between out-of-school suspension from primary school and early contact with police in New South Wales. The odds of suspended children experiencing any contact were three times those of non-suspended children. The study finds that systemic intersectoral reform to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline by enacting effective alternatives to suspension is required.