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Reunifying First Nations families: the only way to reduce the overrepresentation of children in out-of-home care
We are edging closer to another anniversary of Kevin Rudd’s National Apology to the Stolen Generations on February 13.
At the time of the National Apology in 2008, there were 9,070 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care in Australia.
- BJ Newton
- The Conversation
Today, that number has increased to approximately 18,900, with First Nations children representing more than 40% of all children in out-of-home care.
The Family Matters Report led by SNAICC estimated that by 2030, the number of First Nations children in out-of-home care will more than double again without “profound and wholesale change to legislation, policy and practice”.
Australian governments are…