Child Protection Minister says:"It’s important that the department looks at itself and examines what’s going on but ultimately it’s hardly independent."
We see the heartbreak,the joy,the trauma,the behaviours. Carers know this. Case workers don’t. They look at the paperwork and boxes they need to tick.
Jenny remembers coming home from school to find her things packed in a bag by the front door. She was moving yet again.
“Why do we take these children,who have already suffered such extreme hardships and not provide them with the best support and care?”
Ms Perkins said during one hearing a Magistrate warned that the government department had forgotten it was meant to be acting in the best interests of children. The Courts described the system’s treatment of her son as ‘tragic’.
In a move that's being described as"a step forward in the right direction"by advocates,the NSW government may soon allow the birth certificates of adoptees to list both their birth parents and biological parents.