Sector Insights November 2025

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

Topics in this report include the Queensland Ombudsman’s 2024 Combined inspection report for Youth Detention Centres, PeakCare’s workforce strategy for the residential care sector, the return on investment of the Pathways to Prevention Project from reducing youth offending, an Australian Human Rights Commission supplementary paper on evidence-based approaches to child justice, annual reports from the Queensland Human Rights Commission and the Department of Housing and Public Works, and a New Zealand study on childhood offending, adverse experiences, and systematic failure.