Police vehicles rushed to the scene to search for the missing child about 8.45am on Friday as her mother put desperate calls out to friends online.
This week’s decision in the Supreme Court should immediately trigger a rethink of how youth justice works in Western Australia and an end to the ‘law and order’ approach to the issue.
Premier Daniel Andrews recently announced a redress scheme for children abused in state care decades ago. But new figures show it’s happening right now.
Almost 600 days after being presented to parliament,a bill to let foster children stay in care until 21 has stalled,while the Coalition has backed calls to push it to 25.
More than 100 at-risk children have no caseworker as child protection offices in Horsham,Hamilton and Portland have not been fully staffed for two years.
One in three Australian children experience physical abuse and one in four experience sexual abuse,according to a Queensland-led survey of 8500 people.
Foster carers who demand children be given counselling and medical help are being targeted by the department as troublemakers. So they’re taking Communities to court,and winning.
In Victoria,about 2000 child protection workers can face 25,000 open cases at any one time. The State Coroner is looking into four cases that ended in death.
Martin Cooper frets like everybody else about his invention’s impacts on society — from the loss of privacy to the risk of internet addiction to the rapid spread of harmful content,especially among kids.
Many of the young offenders being targeted in Labor’s latest crackdown,which will set aside human rights considerations,are under child protection orders.
Discovery Tennis co-founder Peter Lumsden was sentenced to a 30-month community corrections order on Tuesday after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting his former pupil.