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 Victorian, Queensland, WA, SA, ACT and NT Governments have all implemented agreements for the efficient transfer ofchild protection ordersand proceedings for children who cross State or Territory borders. 维多利亚州、昆士兰州、西澳大利亚州、南澳大利亚州、澳大利亚首都地区和北部地区的政府都执行了有...
The lack of a clear definition of emotional abuse has often failed children. Child protection organizations have not intervened in cases of emotional abuse because this kind of abuse is difficult to detect and may often be the underlying core problem of physical and sexual abuse or neglect. Most...
(Matthews et al., 2015). Each jurisdiction identifies different categories (physical, sexual, emotional abuse and neglect) of what constitutes child maltreatment, ranging from all four categories in NSW, TAS, SA and NT to either one or two categories in VIC, QLD and ACT (physical and sexual...
A child protection physician declared aggravated assault to the police. The next day, the police removed the children into an unknown foster house. Several weeks later, both children were placed at their maternal aunt, albeit still not at their parents’ home. An innocent incident in the foster...
1.1. Child protection services In the context of humanitarian crises, child protection involves the “prevention of and response to abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence against children” (Alliance, 2019, p. 19). CPS agencies are mandated to provide protection and care for both children and ...
several public inquiries into the operation of child protection have been undertaken in a number of state jurisdictions following which some states have embarked on large scale reform of legislation and policy, to either strengthen the child protection mandate, or refocus services. Some exemplars of ...
We defined self-reported age-appropriate car seat use as a child aged 2–3 years being in a forward-facing car seat and a child aged 4–5 years being in a booster seat or forward-facing car seat which reflected the NSW legislation. Definitions of child car seats were in accordance with...
Educational institutions and educators are significant in children’s lives, and they have a crucial role in implementing policies, practices, and sexual education to enhance children’s safety. Such policies and practices should be based on the voices o
As with the federal level, the primary protection for FoRB comes from anti-discrimination legislation. Most states and territories prohibit discrimination on the basis of religion16. However, in South Australia discrimination is only prohibited on the basis of ‘religious appearance or dress17, while...