AbSec's policy brief on cultural planning as a holistic approach to support Aboriginal children thriving and being grounded in culture, family and community.

This inquiry spoke with more than 200 children and young people in or with experience of kinship, foster and residential care in Victoria. Their voices shape the 43 findings and 17 recommendations that this report makes to the Victorian government.

This report makes the economic case for additional, long‑term investment in targeted early intervention and intensive family preservation to prevent children entering out‑of‑home care in Victoria.

This inquiry report examines the deaths by suicide of 35 children and young people within 12 months of their involvement in child protection over the period 1 April 2007–1 April 2019. The report highlights the chasm between formal, coercive child protection interventions, and a child and family service system reliant on voluntary engagement.

The number of children in the Northern Territory child protection system remains extremely high, despite $500 million per year being spent by the Commonwealth and Northern Territory governments. This draft report finds that a fundamental change in approach is needed to better coordinate funding decisions between the two governments.