Summary

Australia has no shortage of policies relating to children . In fact, these policies are often in the headlines. Billions of dollars are invested each year trying to improve outcomes for children and young people. Yet we continue to see stubbornly high rates of child maltreatment and family violence , mental ill-health , school disengagement, youth offending and child protection system involvement.

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