YOU DECIDE: Would you remove these children from their families?

YOU DECIDE: Would you remove these children from their families?
ABC News
By Catherine Hanrahan, Ben Spraggon and Colin
Interactive Digital Storytelling team
Updated about an hour ago (as at 08:40 AEDT 19 October 2017)
Published about 2 hours ago

‘Every day, Australia’s child protection workers face a heartbreaking and fraught decision: leave a child in a potentially dangerous family situation, or place them in foster care?

Taking them out of harm’s way might seem like the obvious option. But removing them can place them at risk in Australia’s child protection system, and can lead to long-term psychological damage to the child and other family members.

Can you make the impossible choice?

The six cases below are real situations where child protection workers had to decide whether to remove a child from their family.

Make your choice, then see if the experts agree.’

Read more at:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-19/you-decide-would-you-remove-these-children/8103416

Related:

BROKEN HOMES: ON THE FRONTLINE OF AUSTRALIA'S CHILD PROTECTION CRISIS
By Linton Besser
Four Corners and ABC News Digital

‘For decades, Australia has been in the grip of a child protection crisis. Despite more than 40 inquiries since 1997, and the transfer of foster care to the private sector, sexual abuse and neglect remain rife. A Four Corners investigation into residential group homes has found some of the country's most damaged children are still being placed in danger. Now, it's not state institutions in the spotlight, but private providers, beneficiaries of a multi-billion-dollar taxpayer-funded industry.

Read more at:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-14/four-corners-broken-homes-child-protection/7987450

Wow, Bohemian.... that linked article was hard to read.
Lack of oversight , the houses being rented at taxpayer expense --at inflated cost---, boys and girls being placed in the same homes. Terrible !

LietKynes said:

Wow, Bohemian.... that linked article was hard to read.
Lack of oversight , the houses being rented at taxpayer expense --at inflated cost---, boys and girls being placed in the same homes. Terrible !

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Those children are between a rock and a hard place.