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 ...

Introducing specialist child protection social workers is posing workforce challenges for the councils testing the system. Issues included retaining staff, maintaining safeguarding skills among other ...

Children constitute over 40 per cent of forcibly displaced and stateless persons. Situations of forced displacement and statelessness can have a lifelong, devastating impact on the lives and ...

The Allan Labor Government has appointed experienced clinical leader and child protection reformer Tracy Beaton as the new Principal Commissioner of Victoria’s Commission for Children and Young People ...

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) refer to some of the most intensive and frequently occurring sources of stress that children may suffer early in life. The REEC project will forge a protection ...