In response to the Special Commissions Report the NSW Government released the report, ‘Keep Them Safe: A Shared Approach to Child Wellbeing’ detailing an extensive plan to reform the child protection system including a number of proposals directed towards improving processes in the Children’s Court.The Keep Them Safe Report detailed the NSW Government’s five-year plan to improve the safety and wellbeing of children and young people

NSW Government, Keep Them Safe: A shared approach to child wellbeing (Report, March 2009)

From 1987, laws and policies began to incorporate the Aboriginal Child Placement Principles (ACPPs), which aim to prioritise the placement of Aboriginal children with their extended family or kinship group, members of their Aboriginal community, or local Aboriginal families and involve Aboriginal families and organisations in decision-making about placement. However,...

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NSW Government, Keep Them Safe: A shared approach to child wellbeing (Report, March 2009)

The Aboriginal Children and Young Persons Principle and Child and Young Person Placement Principles