Indigenous
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We are the Australian Centre for Child Protection
This video clip outlines the grave need for child protection research and the essential work that the Centre does for Australian children and families.
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Jenna Meiksans, 'Factors influencing decisions to place children in kinship care'
This presentation is about a study exploring child protection practitioner decision-making about the placement of children in out-of-home care. A brief measure, 'the child placement questionnaire' was developed. Following evaluation by experts in child protection research, policy and practice, it was piloted with 53 child protection practitioners working in the Australian out-of-home care sector. Responses...
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"New findings from child protection research" NCPW 2014 annual forum - introduction
This presentation by Fiona Arney, Director of the Australian Centre for Child Protection, introduces the centre and outlines the nature of the work they have undertaken for 10 years.
Report
Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health survey: biomedical results, 2012-13
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults are more than three times as likely as non-Indigenous adults to have diabetes, and they experience it at much younger ages, according to the results of this health survey. Key findings This publication presents information from the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Measures Survey. This survey is...
Article
Public housing tenants moving for work
The recently released Forrest Review raises the issue that current public and social housing policies trap Indigenous and other Australians in areas ‘even when there are no jobs there’. Some of the Review's proposals include charging people living in public or social housing who are capable of working between 100 per cent and 80 per...