A history of systemic failure that left at-risk children without the support and care they needed has prompted calls to create a new independent watchdog for the NSW child protection system.
Multiple reviews over several years have detailed how the state’s protection of vulnerable children was inefficient, ineffective, lacked transparency, and operated on a crisis-driven model that failed to keep track of the children in its care.
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“Government intervention in the lives of children and families can be traumatic and deeply harmful,” Justice and Equity Centre chief executive Jonathan Hunyor said.
“When government holds both the power in the system and oversight of the system, child safety and family rights are at risk. That’s why comprehensive, independent oversight is so crucial.”
