Parents will be notified when their child’s daycare centre is involved in an abuse investigation and organisations will face steep penalties for failing to protect children as part of a raft of ...

The $250 million body is the key plank of the state’s response to a review of systemic failures that enabled a notorious childcare paedophile.

Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children commissioner has warned Queensland's push to increase adoptions ...

More than a dozen public servants who help represent the state in child protection cases have been axed – just as the number of vulnerable kids entering the system continues to rise and the government ...

Queensland’s Crisafulli government will invest $250m to set up a new child protection commission as part of its response to a damning review that found numerous opportunities were missed to stop of ...

Dozens of emails land in my inbox every day. But this one was different. It was from a child in residential care, and they were desperate. "What I am currently going through is not okay," they wrote. ...

The Queensland Protection Commission will be established to improve the response to reports of alleged child sexual abuse and keep children safe. Attorney-General Deb Frecklington's announcement ...

Speaking at the Wednesday hearing before Commissioner Paul Anastassiou KC, Principal Commissioner of the Queensland Family and Child Commission Luke Twyford called for clearer transparency within the ...

The central aim of any child protection system is in the name: protect children. But over the years, inquiries and media reports have shown fulfilling this goal has too often proved tragically elusive ...