In 2022-23, the NSW department responsible for child protection declared “case closed” for the vast majority of children at risk of harm.
NSW is failing to protect its most at-risk children, with a scathing new report detailing a broken system where the government does not monitor the wellbeing of children in foster care, and last year closed the cases of 85,000 children at risk of significant harm.
At the same time, the Department of Communities and Justice , which is responsible for child protection in NSW, “has failed to make the necessary changes to ensure its child protection service model meets the needs of children and families”. The former Coalition government handed the delivery of some foster care to the non-government sector in 2012, and a report by former senior public servant David Tune in 2018 found the child protection system was failing the most vulnerable families and not stopping entrenched neglect.
“Their cases were closed without any follow-up services from DCJ and DCJ does not know the outcomes for these children,” the report said. The cases were closed due to the “competing work priorities” of caseworkers. “Approximately 6500 Aboriginal children were in out-of-home care as at 30 June 2023, making up 45 per cent of the out-of-home care population. By comparison, around 7 per cent of children in NSW are Aboriginal,” the report said.
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