We have a responsibility to provide oversight, advocacy, and advice on matters affecting children and families, and the systems they interact with. Through our evidence-based and comprehensive approach, we make recommendations that are grounded in research and informed by lived experiences, quantitative data, case studies, and extensive stakeholder feedback. This approach provides for practical, realistic, and effective recommendations to government to address the complex challenges facing children and families.
Our recommendations are aimed at promoting lasting, meaningful change within systems, policies, and practices. While they serve as an important catalyst for systemic reform, it is essential to recognise that the value of recommendations made by any oversight entity lies in the outcomes for the end-user in the system – the experience for the children and families engaging with the child protection system.
An outcomes-focused approach to monitoring the implementation of recommendations considers not only whether a recommendation has been actioned, but further whether the reform has resulted in the intended improvements in practice – to contribute to a transformation of how systems function, how professionals act, and how children experience care and protection.
This report provides a progress update on the status of implementation of these recommendations and considers the policy reform and practice changes that have come into effect as a result of our findings and recommendations.
Last updated
3 September 2025