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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 Child Protection Dept to boost Indigenous staff

The number of Aboriginal people working to stem the flow of children in care is set to double as part of a new State Government plan to better respond to the cultural needs of Aboriginal communities.

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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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Govt faces “significant challenges” implementing child protection reform

A government committee has cast doubt on the Department for Child Protection’s progress in implementing recommendations from the Nyland Royal Commission, after it found more than a quarter of SA children who died since 2005 had contact with child protection services.