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Govt lagging on Aboriginal child placement target

The SA Child Protection Department is struggling to reach its target to place more Aboriginal children in care with Aboriginal carers, but has almost doubled its spending on Indigenous-controlled organisations.

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Global perspective key to addressing Aboriginal child welfare

Overseas child protection programs could hold the answer to curbing South Australia’s growing overrepresentation of Aboriginal children in state care, a child protection worker from the Riverland says.

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SA foster carers on rise but more doors need to open

The State Government has reached its target of recruiting 50 new foster families this year, with the Child Protection Minister now urging people outside the traditional foster carer stereotype to consider opening their doors to at-risk children.

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Murdered SA children: "The agency responsible for their safety elected to do nothing"

The state’s child protection agency has again been savaged for systemic failures, with a long-awaited Ombudsman’s report into the case of two siblings murdered with their mother at Hillier in 2016 laying bare departmental “inertia, complacency and misplaced priorities” that saw authorities “do nothing” to protect the children despite serious warnings about their welfare.

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Disability rate among children in care a “travesty”

School-aged children in state care are seven times more likely to have an intellectual disability than the overall student population, data from the Education Department reveals.