National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children: key learnings Brian Babington Chief Executive Officer, Families Australia Coordinator, Coalition of Organisations Committed to the Safety and Wellbeing of Australia’s Children SSPA Conference, 21 September 2012
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National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children:
key learningsBrian Babington
Chief Executive Officer, Families AustraliaCoordinator, Coalition of Organisations Committed to
the Safety and Wellbeing of Australia’s ChildrenSSPA Conference, 21 September 2012
Four focus areas:The work of Families AustraliaThe National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children
Role of NGO sector & NGO Coalition on National Framework
Reflections of possible relevance
Aims
a national, member-based, non-partisan, not-for-profit organisation which strives to improve the wellbeing of all Australian families by initiating, inspiring, informing and influencing national public policy debates.
works to promote a national policy environment in which the needs and interests of families, especially the most vulnerable and marginalised, are heard and addressed.
Families Australia
Forgotten Australians
National Families Week10 years: 1 million participants
Grandparenting
Work and family
Mental health and families
Foster care
Substance abuse
Workplace relations
National children’s commissioner
Disability
Policy and community engageme
nt
Protecting children
Medicare & Centrelink
Families of offenders
Siblings
National Compact
Child payments
Australian Community Children’s Services Grandparents Australia Playgroup Australia Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander
Child Care Child and Family Welfare Association of Australia Mind Australia Australian Foster Care Association CREATE Foundation UnitingCare Australia
Families Australia Board
First ever national roadmapResponse to stubbornly high rates of abuse
National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children 2009-2020
Trends in brief
2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-110
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Substantiations of notificationsChildren on care/protection ordersChildren in OOHC
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
In 2010-11: Indigenous children are 7.5 times as likely to
be the subject of substantiations of abuse/neglect as non-Indigenous children
June 2011: Rate of Indigenous children on care and
protection orders is 9.5 times the rate for non-Indigenous children
Rate of Indigenous children in out-of-home care is almost 10 times the rate for non-Indigenous children
X 7.5
X 9.5
X 10
Some causal pathways 13% children live in households where an adult regularly drunk (Dawe et al, 2008)
In over one-third of child protection case files, 2 or more DV incidents recorded in prior year
In over 50% of child protection case files, parental alcohol abuse is recorded (Dept Child Safety Qld 2008)
20+ years of advocacy 2007 Federal election: ALP seeking ideas
Coalition of Organisations Committed to the Safety and Wellbeing of Australia’s Children: 100+ national level NGOs as united front
Explore new priorities including in early childhood (identify communities where children at risk and review supports through place-based approaches), disability, family violence, engagement with business, media, community
Deliver national priorities including Closing the Gap (eg enhance application of Aboriginal Child Placement Principle), identify carer barriers, share practice on trauma care
A number of ‘firsts’ Tripartite model in policy co-design Intra-NGO collaboration has been high
Required all to shift perspectives Yet, outcomes for children to be seen If first action plan was essential scene-setting, expect to see substantive improvements from the second plan.