Sector Insights August 2025

This Insights paper features a summary of Australian research, analysis and updates released in August 2025 about child and family wellbeing.

Topics in this report includes risk and protective factors for child protection involvement, restoring children from out-of-home care, Queensland independent school teachers child protection knowledge, child maltreatment in youth-serving organisations, children and young people held in watch houses, specialised treatment service for youth adjudicated sexual offences, maltreatment a stronger determinant of mental health than out-of-home care and Productivity Commission Closing the Gap annual data compilation report.