Family Matters releases inaugural report on child protection for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
As we approach the 20th anniversary of the Bringing Them Home Report, the Family Matters campaign has released their inaugural baseline report into the state of child protection for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. The numbers say it all. If the current trend continues then the more than 15,000 Indigenous children in statutory care in 2015 will be 45,000 by 2035. Natalie Lewis writing in The Guardian makes an impassioned plea for a co-ordinated…