Sector Insights July 2025

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

Topics in this report includes timing of mental health contacts, foster and kinship carers navigating child protection systems, reunification, profiles of Australian young people convicted of assaulting police officers, pressure to place in the child protection system, First Nations child removal in New South Wales out-of-home care, young carers, Aboriginal workers’ views on good practice with Aboriginal children in child protection, care leavers.