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Guideline
Our Quick Reference Guide provides easy-to-understand information about the Child Safe Standards to help businesses and organisations implement and apply them in practice.
  • Child Safe Standards
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Research
Our annual community perceptions survey measures the community’s confidence in the systems designed to support children and families.
  • Child protection
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Research
Our annual workforce survey asks workers in the child protection, family support and youth justice sector about their perspectives of their work and its impact.
  • Child protection
  • Youth justice
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Report
Confirming the Commission’s monitoring framework for our Growing Up in Queensland report.
  • Child rights
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Report
Buyer beware - How economic forces are shaping Queensland's residential care market.
  • Residential care
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Insights paper
This paper compiles the evidence around injuries and fatalities for children and young people resulting from e-scooters and e-bikes, risk factors.
  • Child death prevention
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Government response
A response from the Queensland Government on the recommendations provided in the Child Death Review Board Annual Report.
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Resource
This Self-Assessment Tool is for any organisation working with children. It supports staff, managers and directors to consider child safeguarding within their organisation.
  • Child Safe Standards
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Guideline
These detailed guidelines are designed help everyone, who works with children or provides spaces for them, to understand their role and how they can contribute to keeping children safe. They include practical advice, examples, and minimum requirements to help build a strong culture of safety and…
  • Child Safe Standards
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Guideline
These guidelines outlines the procedural aspects of the Child Death Review Board’s (Board) role and functions in accordance with part 3A of the Family and Child Commission Act 2014 (Qld) (the FCC Act) as amended by the Child Death Review Legislation Amendment Act 2020 (Qld).
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Research
We have released a paper on corporal punishment, co-authored with Associate Professor Divna Haslam from the School of Public Health at the University of Queensland and the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research.
  • Domestic and family violence
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Insights paper
This Insights paper features a summary of Australian research, analysis and updates released in April 2025 about child and family wellbeing.
The rights of parents with children in care poster
Resource
Printable poster with information on rights of children in care.
  • Child rights
The rights of parents with children in care poster
Resource
Printable poster with information on rights of parents with children in care.
  • Child rights
Support for foster and kinship carers poster
Resource
Printable poster with information on the support available for foster and kinship carers.
  • Child rights
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Insights paper
This research by the Parenting Research Centre underscores the design principles needed for system reform, ensuring families receive the right support at the right time to prevent unnecessary statutory intervention and create better futures.
  • Child protection

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