The hard cases – protecting vulnerable teenagers

The annual report of the Victorian Child Death Review Committee, examining the deaths of children known to Victoria’s child protection services, was released last week . While the deaths of children are always tragic, it is good (and surprising, to me) news that the mortality rate for children known to child protection is, apparently, “broadly comparable with the death rate among 0–17 year olds in the general Victorian community. More than half of the children who died were infants, many

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