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Report
Changes to mandatory reporting and referral behaviour in Child Protection and Family Support System: Health check 2 summary.
  • Child protection
  • Carmody Inquiry
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Annual report
The Queensland Family and Child Commission Annual Report provides information about our achievements, governance arrangements, strategic objectives, financial and non-financial performance.
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Annual report
We are legislated to assess the performance of Queensland’s child protection system and report our findings in our Annual Report. As part of our annual report release, we publish these finding as a standalone report.
  • Child protection
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Report
During October and November 2017 the QFCC conducted workshops with 11 young adults who had recently transitioned to independence after living in residential care.
  • Residential care
  • Child protection
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Report
Children living in out-of-home care have a higher likelihood of contact with police and are overrepresented in the criminal justice system.
  • Residential care
  • Child protection
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Report
This paper explores the issue of criminalisation of children living in out-of-home care, the main factors reported to contribute to their criminalisation and jurisdictional responses to address the issue.
  • Residential care
  • Child protection
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Report
This place I call home.
  • Child rights
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Fact sheet
Water safety - this fact sheet contains statistics on child drowning.
  • Child death prevention
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Fact sheet
We’ve jointly produced a factsheet with information about how to help your children play safe away from cars and stay safe when near cars.
  • Child death prevention
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Annual report
The Annual Report: Deaths of children and young people collects, analyses and publishes information about child deaths to help prevent future deaths and serious injuries.
  • Child death prevention
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Annual report
The Queensland Family and Child Commission Annual Report provides information about our achievements, governance arrangements, strategic objectives, financial and non-financial performance.
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Annual report
We are legislated to assess the performance of Queensland’s child protection system and report our findings in our Annual Report. As part of our annual report release, we publish these finding as a standalone report.
  • Child protection
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Annual report
The Annual Report: Deaths of children and young people collects, analyses and publishes information about child deaths to help prevent future deaths and serious injuries.
  • Child death prevention
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Report
The Review of the foster care system report makes 42 recommendations that will introduce a number of changes to the foster care system.
  • Child protection
  • Foster and kinship care
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Report
Following the death of Tiahleigh Palmer, the Premier requested a comprehensive examination of the blue card system in Queensland.
  • Child protection
  • Foster and kinship care
  • Blue card
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Report
A system review of individual agency findings following the death of a child.
  • Child protection

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