These are: definitional understandings of domestic violence and child abuse; child protection legislative changes, including mandatory reporting and domestic violence as a child-at-risk category; and the NSW child protection statutory authority's response to domestic violence. The interplay between these...
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Report of the Special Commission of Inquiry into Child Protection Services in NSW In 2008, there are a number of challenges both old and new facing DoCS, some of which are unique to it, but many of which are experienced by most child protection systems within Australia. J Wood - 《Special...
age-appropriate car seats, respondents with children aged 2–3 years travelling in the right car seat for age were more likely to disagree or strongly disagree with the statement that “A booster seat offers a three-year old child the same level of protection as a forward-facing car seat”...
only some child protection organizations remained fully operational during lockdown and, because many social workers were not available every day, the reports of child abuse and neglect via Form 22 (the official form used in South Africa for mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse or neglect)...
(APS, 2007; p.15), and mandating psychologists to report, only duplicates what’s stated in standard A.5.2. This paper will focus on mandatory reporting laws within Australian States and Territories and that mandatory reporting should not be a legal requirement of the practicing…show more ...
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Recently, child protection data for 2003–2004 has been released. This provides an opportunity to re-examine some child protection issues and the effectiveness of mandatory reporting 5 years on. These have been tumultuous years. Each state and territory has held major inquiries into this area of ...
The authors conducted a project analysing data collected by social workers in the course of practice, recorded on a Mandatory Reporter Guide on-line tool, introduced with the 'Keep the Safe' policy. The audit indicated that the changed criteria for reporting to the statutory child protection ...
to either strengthen the child protection mandate, or refocus services. Some exemplars of significant reform in selected states will be cited. Some of the themes that will be explored in the paper will include the impact of major state based public inquiries, overseas reviews and research on chil...