7 September 2009

Child Protection: Can we do better?

 

How can Australian statutory child protection services work better to prevent child abuse and neglect?

What are the lessons from the ongoing Northern Territory intervention for policy and practice?

Australian Institute of Criminology Director Dr Adam Tomison will examine how to reform child protection systems to improve the handling of abuse and neglect cases.

Dr Tomison will address a seminar in Melbourne on 10 September hosted by the Australian Institute of Family Studies marking National Child Protection Week.

As a former director of the Northern Territory’s Family and Children’s Services, Dr Tomison helped reform and develop child protection and family support services resulting from the Australian Government intervention and the Northern Territory Government’s Closing the Gap on Indigenous disadvantage initiative.

He was also the expert advisor to the Territory’s Little Children Are Sacred inquiry into the protection of Aboriginal children from sexual abuse.

Over the past two decades he’s worked with government, non-government and advocacy groups in child protection both here and overseas.

His presentation is part of the Australian Institute of Family Studies Seminar Series that brings together eminent speakers on contemporary issues in national and international family research, providing a public forum for discussion and debate.

 

Seminar: Thursday 10 September, 10am to 11.30am

State Library of Victoria, Conference Centre, Village Roadshow Theatrette,
Entry 3, La Trobe Street, Melbourne.

 

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