First Peoples child protection
Alternative labels
Indigenous child protection
Report
Best interests: listening to children and young people’s experiences within the child protection system
This report examines the experiences of South Australian children and young people who have had contact with the state's child protection system and what they say needs to be done to improve it.
Report
Care criminalisation of children with disability in child protection systems
The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability commissioned this research to improve understanding of the pathways that lead children with disability from their contact with child protection system to entering the criminal justice system.
Submission
Victorian Government submission to the Yoorrook Justice Commission
This submission offers a whole-of-government response to the Yoorrook Justice Commission’s two issues papers on systemic injustice experienced by First Peoples in the Victorian criminal justice and child protection systems.
Report
Aboriginal Outcomes Strategy focus area 2 (out-of-home care) – were the targets achieved?
This report assesses the extent to which the Department of Communities and Justice (NSW) achieved its five-year strategy to reduce over-representation of Aboriginal children in out-of-home care.
Guide
Healing our children and young people: a framework to address the impacts of domestic and family violence
This resource is for policy-makers and practitioners working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children who have experienced domestic and family violence and have come into contact with child protection systems.