This resource sheet is provided as a guide only. It is up to date with current state and territory risk assessment in child protection policies and frameworks at the time of publication. The resource sheet summarises risk assessment approaches used by child protection practitioners to assess whether a child is at risk of future maltreatment...

Ensuring the safety and wellbeing of Australia’s children, especially those most vulnerable because of their circumstances, continues to be a contentious and elusive area of policy reform. This study aims to provide a national focus for reforms to the child protection and youth justice systems by examining the nature of recommendations from 61 reports and...

This audit assesses the effectiveness of the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) in planning, designing, and overseeing the New South Wales child protection system. It found the system is inefficient, ineffective, and unsustainable.

The NSW Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) is responsible for safeguarding the rights of Aboriginal children, families, and communities when they encounter the child protection system. This audit assesses whether DCJ, and five funded, non-government organisations that provide out of home care services, are effectively safeguarding the rights of Aboriginal children in the child...

This inquiry report finds that South Australia is unnecessarily removing disproportionate and growing numbers of Aboriginal children from their families and communities, causing long term harm to their health, wellbeing and life chances, when they could be responding in a more child-family centred and culturally-responsive way.