Review of the NSW child protection system - Are things improving? Special report to Parliament - April 2014

This report is a follow-up to our 2011 special report to Parliament, Keep Them Safe?, which discussed a number of critical challenges that needed to be met as part of reforming the child protection system. Two and a half years on, we believe it is timely to re-examine a number of the significant issues canvassed in that report. It outlines our analysis of recent data provided by Community Services on ROSH response rates and caseworker numbers. We also discuss a number of issues relating to the quality of intra and inter agency child protection practice.