Monitoring and reviewing systems

The disproportionate representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people is a pervasive feature of statutory child protection systems across all jurisdictions in Australia.

A thematic analysis of provisionally approved kinship carers who receive subsequent Blue Card negative notices. 

Our 2023–2027 Oversight Framework and 2023–24 Oversight Forward Workplan detail how we perform our oversight function with transparency and objectivity.

We are responsible for leading evaluations of the reform program at the program-level, that is, evaluating the whole program rather than its individual components.

The report System review into the use of Permanent Care Orders for First Nations children summarises our findings and highlights that in 2021–22

This report assesses how these policy changes were implemented and any improvement in three Child Safety Service Centres’ responsiveness to notifications of child harm.

Reports on young people in the youth justice system including Yarning for Change and Raising the age of criminal responsibility.

This report describes the issues that we will report on to provide an outcomes-based account of the experiences and perspective of children and young people involved with Queensland’s child protection system.

We have gathered the views of children and young people with lived experiences of residential care to help inform what needed to change. 

This paper discusses the barriers faced by children with cognitive disabilities when accessing the NDIS to gain disability support..

We have completed a review of a child protection response used in Queensland known as an Intervention with Parental Agreement.

We have taken a fresh look into the deaths of 30 children who were known to the child protection system, to determine any common themes in their lives.