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The shocking abuse case of a 13-year-old girl in state care who fell pregnant to a pedophile highlights systemic problems left unaddressed despite recommendations of a landmark child protection review more than a decade ago, according to the Guardian for Children.
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The State Government has rejected a Royal Commission recommendation to house “high-needs” children in care in a secure facility, after advocates warned doing so would only serve to incarcerate vulnerable young people and cause them distress.
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A South Australian charity which provides essential supplies to children entering the child protection system or escaping domestic violence says demand for its service has doubled during the pandemic due to an “unprecedented” rise in the number of young people fleeing dangerous living situations.
South Australians placed in child protection are up to 52 per cent more likely to be hospitalised by their mid-teens than their counterparts, according to new research.
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.
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.
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.
