What kinds of intersecting problems lead families to interactions with child protection systems? How are service collaborations working to address the underlying health, legal and social needs that drive child protection notifications? And what policy changes are needed to support primary prevention for children and families at risk?
Join Health Justice Australia and a panel of experts driving research, service innovation and systemic advocacy in response to these questions. This one-hour, online discussion will explore the latest insights about intersecting health, legal and social need that lead to child protection notifications. It will share the lessons from service collaboration like health justice partnership and the potential for earlier support from services for the problems that hold people in disadvantage. And it will hear from leading advocates working to reshape the child protection system away from the identification of risk and removal of children, towards supporting health, justice and wellbeing in people’s lives.
Join us in conversation with National Children’s Commissioner Anne Hollonds, Professor Daryl Higgins, alongside Wynetta Davis (CEO) and Thelma Schwartz (Principal Legal Officer)of the Queensland Indigenous Family Violence Legal Service (QIFVLS) on the role of legal help in holistic care.