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Aboriginal families 12 times more likely to experience child removal

Calls for early, culturally attuned intervention for families

Newcastle Herald

Cost of out-of-home-care for kids-in-crisis rising, payments stalled: IPART

IPART lands interim report into cost of kids removed from home

Newcastle Herald

Hotels for kids in crisis are 'banned', paid carers are back, says Minister

Minns Government announces long-awaited out of home care reforms

Newcastle Herald

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Child protection reform: private providers and bureaucrats put on notice

Minister's warning in first snapshot of promised reform.

Newcastle Herald

The brutal calculation that decides if children in danger get help

The child protection system is so stretched that some cases are simply marked ‘closed’ without children being seen at all, caseworkers say. In the northern rivers, the situation is among the worst

The Guardian - AU

Get kids out of hotels and into homes with care and support: NSW Advocate

NSW Advocate for Children and Young People urges immediate action

Newcastle Herald

Worsening child protection crisis a 'full scale social disaster' says union

Rising number of caseworkers on leave due to stress and injury

Newcastle Herald

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'Hole in budget' for kids in crisis and families who need more help, sooner

No money in NSW budget for more much needed early intervention

Newcastle Herald

‘Ineffective’ NSW child protection system failing tens of thousands of children, auditor general finds

Scathing report finds Department of Communities and Justice not providing the care needed to protect children’s safety and welfare

The Guardian - AU

'Dismal': Hunter child protection caseworkers protest broken system

Caseworkers say they're paralysed by mounting paperwork and chronic under staffing.

Newcastle Herald

‘Incredibly disturbing’: calls for audit of out-of-home care providers after court hears Aboriginal baby’s aunt refused as carer due to same-sex relationship

Two of the biggest Aboriginal groups in NSW claim racism is ‘rife’ in the child protection system, which needs an overhaul

The Guardian - AU

NSW government launches review after court hears Aboriginal baby’s aunt refused as carer due to same-sex relationship

Court told Anglicare Sydney refused to assess woman as a long-term carer and sought to have baby adopted to non-Indigenous couple

The Guardian - AU

Anglicare Sydney refused to assess Aboriginal baby’s aunt as carer because she was in same-sex relationship, court hears

Magistrate says orders ‘would have robbed’ the nine-month-old girl, who has complex needs, of being raised by her family

The Guardian - AU

Mother issues plea to bring two Aboriginal children stranded in UK without passports home

Wiradjuri woman says she does not want them to be part of the British child protection system and ‘they need to come home’

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Police to review NSW evacuation centres after report finds women were sexually assaulted in Lismore

‘Disturbing’ University of Newcastle research found some women in emergency shelters during 2022 floods reported sexual assaults and violence

Newcastle Herald

'We need to know what went wrong': shock as service goes bust

'There were obviously deeper problems'.

Newcastle Herald

'I'm grateful the department took my children from me'

'...but I'm not impressed with the way it was done.'

Newcastle Herald

Broken system: foster child allegedly assaulted by male care worker

'His hair was filthy, and he said he didn't get enough food.'

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Newcastle Herald

Suicide now the leading cause of death for tweens and teens

Youth suicide rate increases 68 per cent.

Newcastle Herald

Only one in five kids in crisis are being seen by a caseworker

There are 14,723 children in out-of-home care in NSW, 2,106 in the Hunter.

Newcastle Herald

'Dumpster fire': at-risk kids in limbo as service closes

'The OOHC system is ... a horrendous failure of the NSW government'

Newcastle Herald

Care fail: Review finds systemic issues in out-of-home care

The review was ordered after a magistrate spoke out about the 'appalling neglect'

The Hindu

Australian government reviews children’s custody after death of Indian-origin mother

“We offer our deepest condolences to the family during this difficult time,” said the Australian High Commission

Newcastle Herald

Homelessness yet to budge in the Hunter, experts says

The 'observational' count may only scrape tip of state's homelessness problem.

The New Daily

Ombudsman says NSW failures on homeless kids ‘concerning’

Little progress is being made on youth homelessness in NSW, with more than 1000 children seeking crisis accommodation in the past 12 months.

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