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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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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.
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.
