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South Australia is failing young people in care by not ensuring more participate in the NAPLAN, the state’s Guardian for Children says, following the release of data showing only half of Year 9 students under the guardianship last year sat the national test.
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Aboriginal babies deemed at-risk by South Australia’s Child Protection Department are being removed from their mothers at Adelaide hospitals, not long after birth, in processes advocates say are unnecessarily cruel and opaque. Stephanie Richards talks to affected families.
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Three Aboriginal community-controlled organisations have been announced as the beneficiaries of a $3 million program that shifts responsibility for kinship carer support from the Child Protection Department to the non-government sector.
Child protection experts from across the country have been asked to help South Australia improve outcomes for Aboriginal children, after a report revealed a decline in the number of young people being placed in culturally appropriate care.
South Australians are being urged to consider becoming foster carers in the wake of COVID-19, as part of a new government campaign to be launched this week.
There is a “big gap” in South Australia’s child protection system when it comes to providing children who experience severe maltreatment and abuse with specialised therapy, says the Department for Child Protection’s chief psychiatrist.
Children and young people in residential care homes who are unable to receive visits from family members as a precaution against the spread of coronavirus must be able to continue going to school, South Australia’s guardian for children says.
