The structural risk perspective conceptualizes the causes of inequities in child protection
system contact as unequal exposure to the structural causes of child abuse risk, combined …

There is a growing movement to integrate conceptual tools from the health inequalities field
into research that examines the relationship between inequalities and chances of child …

Introduction: Examining basic trends in child protection statistics give some insight into the
functioning of the system overall. Methods: This article uses Official Information Act and …

Attempts to record, understand and respond to variations in child welfare and protection
reporting, service patterns and outcomes are international, numerous and longstanding …

In recent years there have been major changes in responses to children in need with an
'investigative turn'because of widening suspicion of abuse and neglect. This turn is located …

Australia's history of negative child protection outcomes for children in state care highlights
the sustained, systemic nature of serious harm. Situated in emerging conversations on …

Australia's child protection systems and the provision of out-of-home care, in particular, have
been subject to sustained criticism for decades from dozens of official inquiries and reviews …

A core component of the level of statutory assurance against the risk of child abuse is hazard
detection through notifier surveillance, and through risk screening by both notifiers and the …

The rate of orders used to remove babies into the care of Oranga Tamariki reduced by more
than half in Aotearoa New Zealand in 2019–2020 as a result of rapid reform, prompted by a …

The White Paper on Vulnerable Children before the Aotearoa/New Zealand parliament
proposes changes that will significantly reconstruct the child welfare systems in this country …