In April 2025, councils and their partners started rolling out reforms to children's social care, which have subsequently faced significant criticism from social work experts. We look at what they ...

[In state’s child protection statute and/or where “abuse and neglect” and/or “best interests of the child” are defined, add] A parent has the fundamental right to direct the care and upbringing of the ...

A coronial inquest into the deaths of four Victorian children has heard the recently rolled-out child safety framework, SAFER, has received mostly positive feedback from child protection practitioners ...