Resources

We have provided some helpful resources and information about the Review, as well as links to research and work that is happening in Australia and around the world.

Australia

• Understanding and applying the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle (2017) (PDF, 849.4 KB)
• Australian Parliament, Senate Community Affairs References Committee: Out Of Home Care (2016)
• Bringing them home (1997)

New South Wales

• Legislative Council, General Purpose Standing Committee No. 2: Child Protection (2017)
• Legislative Council, General Purpose Standing Committee No. 3: reparation for the Stolen generations in New South Wales, Unfinished Business (2016)
• Their Futures Matter – Reform Directions from the David Tune Independent Review of OOHC in NSW (2016)
• Guardianship orders for Aboriginal children and young people (2015)
• Review of the NSW child protection system – are things improving? Special report to Parliament. April 2014 (2014)
• Keep them safe? A special report to Parliament under s31 of the Ombudsman Act 1974 (2011)

Victorian review of Aboriginal children in OOHC

• In the child’s best interests: Inquiry into compliance with the intent of the Aboriginal Child Placement Principle in Victoria (PDF, 3.6 MB)
• Taskforce 1000 Vic Report (PDF, 500.3 KB)
• Always was, always will be Koori Children: Systemic inquiry into services provided to Aboriginal children and young people in out-of-home care in Victoria (PDF, 2.3 MB)

Queensland

• Indigenous Child Placement Principle: Audit report 2010/11 (PDF, 3.3 MB)

International

• Report on Indigenous Child Welfare in British Columbia - Final report of Grand Chief Ed John
• Family Finding and Permanency

Australian child and family research organisations

• Australian Institute of Family Studies
• Australian Institute of Family Studies: Enhancing the implementation of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle

Other resources

• Calls for independent review of Aboriginal children in OOHC
• NSW Government launches review into number of Aboriginal children in care
• Australia failing to safeguard cultural connections for Aboriginal children in out-of-home care