Sector Insights October 2025

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

Topics in this report include the Department of Families, Seniors, Disability Services and Child Safety and the Department of Youth Justice and Victim Support Annual Reports 2024–2025, workplace experiences of residential care workers in Queensland, secure care and the legal safety of children, developmental trajectories of children entering care as infants, strategies to reduce young women’s offending, child protection decision-making, and evaluation of the Therapeutic life story work program in Victoria.