Child Protection

There is nothing as sad as seeing an orphan – no parents to love the child so we can see the need for the state to take care of the child. Another tragic occurrence is abuse or neglect of a child. Most people would agree that in extreme cases that state has to step in and care for the child. However children under state care frequently do very badly. Most governments are coy about publishing the data about children that are referred to as 'known to the Department' because it is so bad. Some of the ways around this could include:

-more transparent publishing of welfare indicators (particularly deaths) of children under the care of these agencies;

-despite being set up to care for the best interests of children the welfare of the mother frequently takes priority to the welfare of children due to the ideology of feminism, this needs to change;

-transparent guidelines are needed about when a child needs to be taken into the care of the department;

-more effort is needed to returning children to their parents as soon as practical;

-remove the gender bias that fathers cannot care for children as well as mothers;

-if neither parent is capable to care for a child consider the paternal grandparents and paternal uncles and aunts;

-supervision of at risk children by these departments needs to be audited;

-keep update contact details of children's biological parents;

-keep children in contact with their parents and biological families as much as possible.

Death reviews and Coroners reports of children known to the Departments of Child Protections provide a very telling insight into the operations of these government departments.

There are lots of conspiracy theories about money siphoned off child protection agencies through private companies. Increased transparency of the operations of these departments will extinguish these conspiracy theories.

The best information we have is from Queensland which puts the death rate for children known to the department to be about 68 % higher than the general population. For the 2024/25 year some 57 children died that were known to the Queensland Department of Child Protection. Despite the lack of data available it could be that potentially hundreds more children a year die that are known to the Departments of Child protection compared if they were living in average circumstances.

Out of some 275,000 children known to Departments of Child Protection across Australia some 37,900 children had claims of maltreatment substantiated. ie more than 13 % These included:

-24,000 for emotional abuse;

-8,800 for neglect;

-5,200 for physical abuse;

-3,800 for sexual abuse.

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