Recent child protection legislation in NSW has raised significant ethical and professional issues involved in determining responses to peer abuse. It may be timely to consider such abuse as a child protection issue for schools given the well documented long-term impact of the behaviour. The ...
The concept of parenting capacity is used in Australian legislation without definition, making it difficult to assess in individual cases. Parenting capacity is a broad construct that can incorporate many domains including history, contexts, and current functioning. Understanding how well a parent is ab...
. Based on the jurisdiction, the severity of suspected maltreatment impacts on whether the incidence is reportable or not (Matthews, 2014a). Most jurisdictional mandatory reporting legislation is directed at reporting Get Access
In Australia, a number of states such as Western Australia (WA), New South Wales and Queensland have legislation which gives child protection systems the statutory power to receive and investigate child protection notifications of pregnant mothers (Department of Communities, 2021, New South Wales ...
In addition, results revealed that compared to provinces without booster seat legislation or provinces with recent booster seat legislation, provinces with booster seat legislation enacted before 2006, had the highest (70%) observed inappropriate CRS use, for children four to eight years [11]. As ...
As Briggs (2012) explains, Australian legislation slowly developed into a “complex system” (p. 26). She gave the example of the Criminal Law Act of 1845 which made sexual intercourse with an under-10-year-old girl a criminal offense. The age limit of girls was then elevated to 12-year...
Announcement - Re Miscellaneous Worker Kindergartens and Child Care Centres &c (State Award) 来自 lawlink.nsw.gov.au 喜欢 0 阅读量: 13 作者: JA General 摘要: Announcement - Re Miscellaneous Worker Kindergartens and Child Care Centres &c (State Award) ...
beyond that age the legislation allowed the use of a dedicated child restraint or a seat belt. Clearly a one year old child should be in a dedicated child restraint with built-in harness rather then just an adult seat belt but the previous law has given some parents/carers ...
Research has shown that the main drivers for increasing the rate of seat belt use include legislation, enforcement, and education and awareness campaigns (Dinh-Zarr et al., 2001, Harper et al., 2013, Stanojević et al., 2013, Williams and Wells, 2004). Several studies have identified ...
they all would have bought along a 6 pack of beers and sculled them before going to the races. Thankfully we quoted recent legislation that meant we could be fined $7,000 if we gave underage kids alcohol without parental consent so we were saved. But we had to withstand over a week ...