Child Protection

1: Judge slams agency after ‘flimsy’ claims see child removed from carer | April 10, 2018

A judge has slammed the actions of a government-contracted welfare agency as “shoddy” and “shameful” in removing a six-year-old girl from her foster carer on the flimsy claims of her mischievous older brothers…

2: Family Court Should Be Last Resort: Attorney-General | September 12, 2017

Federal Attorney-General George Brandis called on judges and magistrates yesterday to start ruling on custody and property disputes to take pressure off the overloaded family and federal circuit courts…

3: Baby Gammy and the long arm of the Family Court | August 8, 2014

Let’s hope that unlike the Family Court, the Department for Child Protection can protect both these children without resorting bizarre ideologies on child welfare that can ultimately forget that children are also part of families…

4: NSW puts counselling before courts | December 18, 2012

FAMILIES would spend less time in court and more time in conferences under a new approach to child protection in NSW, Minister for Women Pru Goward says…

5: Grandmother told she’s too old to care for grandchildren | February 15, 2010

A GRANDMOTHER is fighting for the care of her two grandchildren after the Department of Child Safety told her she is too old at 68 to look after them. ..

6: Removals of children on the rise | January 21, 2010

The number of Canberra children who have been removed from abusive or neglectful parents is increasing, a new report says…