Young Minds: Our Future The Third Australian survey of child and adolescent mental health and wellbeing is in field now! If your household is approached, please say yes!

What childcare centres could have done to stop Ashley Paul Griffith A Child Death Review Board investigation into the systemic failings that enabled the abuse has laid bare issues in the childcare system.

So proud to be a part of this review. Lets hope govt implement our recs & improve safety. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Impact of child maltreatment on the costs of health service use and productivity loss: Findings from the Australian child maltreatment study Child maltreatment (CM) poses a substantial health burden, but its impact on healthcare costs and productivity loss in Australia remains unclear.To es…

In Australia child maltreatment costs
💰 $21.6 billion every year in health service use
📉 $24.1 billion annually in lost productivity

The human cost of maltreatment should be convincing enough this new paper provides a strong economic argument for prevention. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How the ABC uncovered the dangers lurking in Australia's childcare centres This story is about something deeper than policy or profit. It's about the trust parents place in childcare every morning when they hand over their children, believing they will be safe — only to find...

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Australia is about to ban under-16s from social media. Here’s what kids can do right now to prepare Download your data, make plans to stay connected to friends, and decide where you’re going next.

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Plane and car crash testing is still designed to keep men safe. That puts women in danger A former airline pilot turned safety researcher explains the shocking lack of real-world testing to keep women safe in the air and on our roads.

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'I don't think that the public has any idea': Paedophiles have infiltrated child care The true scale of abuse in Australia's childcare centres has been hidden. With 200,000 pages of previously confidential files, police tip-offs, and evidence from whistleblowers, Four Corners exposes t...

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The magic science of a mother’s touch. www.instagram.com/reel/DQHWv7D...

High youth death rates are an ‘emerging crisis’, global health study warns Alcohol, suicide and injuries driving rises among teenagers and young adults despite overall rates falling, authors say

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Person dies after deadly opioid detected in yellow teddy bear pill Queensland Health issues a public health alert warning nitazenes have been detected in tablets.

Devastating impact of the lack of pill testing in after recent legislative ban. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

We’ve tried and failed to Close the Gap for 15 years. Research shows what actually works The Family Wellbeing Program has decades of evidence backing it to help Indigenous people live better lives. Here’s how it works.

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Clinical effectiveness of the Circle of Security-Parenting group intervention for birthing parents in perinatal mental health services in England (COSI): a pragmatic, multicentre, assessor-masked, ran... COS-P plus treatment-as-usual did not demonstrate greater clinical effectiveness compared with treatment-as-usual alone when delivered in NHS community perinatal mental health services. Therefore, COS...

Publication of studies that show lack of intervention benefits are often overlooked but they are important in identifying what services should be funded.

This study found Circle of Security conferred no additional benefits for birthing parents over CAU.

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Delighted to celebrate the importance of #kinshipcarers with afternoon tea at QLD Parliament House yesterday hosted by Corrine McMillan MP & Peakcare.
Kin who step up to support kids in need are something special.

Online porn traffic plummets in UK after law change, and Australia is next The number of people accessing prominent pornography websites in the United Kingdom plummets after new age-verification laws — that are also heading to Australia — are introduced.

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Disappointed with this news. Drug testing can save lives & banning it wont actually stop ppl using drugs

Coercive control puts children at risk of mental illness later in life Children who experience coercive control face an increased risk of developing a mental illness in adulthood, a new childhood domestic violence study has found.

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Victoria to become only state without dedicated helpline for parents After 25 years in operation, Victoria's Parentline service will shut on October 31 as the government withdraws funding.

Really disappointed to see Parentline Vic being cut. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

'Socially infertile' women in class action over 'unfair' policy Women without partners, or in same-sex relationships, had to pay thousands of dollars for at least two rounds of fertility procedures before they could access rebates.

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'Young, gorgeous, naive': Abused in the driver's seat An ABC investigation has uncovered hundreds of allegations of sexual harassment and assault at the hands of driving instructors. Warning: graphic content detailing alleged sexual assault.

Even learning to drive young women are not safe. New ABC report. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Really struggle to understand gun culture in the US against the lives of children. I cannot fathom not knowing if my kids were safe from this sort of violence.

If you need evidence that childhood learnings endue I was today years old (40s) when I realised the song in Annie is not “it’s a hard enough life for us” but a ”hard knock life” .

These women got $55k to build a tiny home, but there was one catch The bold experiment to give 15 at-risk women a chance to own their first home for under $120,000, but there was one tiny catch.

What a great story www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Australia will get a register to track educators and CCTV trial in centres – we still need more to keep kids safe All Australia’s education ministers met in Sydney to agree on a new package of measures to improve safety in childcare.

Australia will get a register to track educators and CCTV trial in centres – we still need more to keep kids safe
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‘Now that I know, what do I do?’ The terrible question of how and when to tell a small child about abuse Common wisdom is that we don’t have memories before about the age of four. So what do parents do when a young child has been the victim of abuse?

Glad to contribute to this piece.

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Children being placed in hotels as Qld's residential care costs grow In some cases, a lack of places in residential care means children have to be placed in high-cost options like hotels.

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Victoria to overhaul childcare safety after damning rapid review Victoria's childcare regulators are failing to keep kids safe due to poor information sharing, legal constraint, chronic underfunding and a system that places the privacy of educators and the pursuit ...

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Why We Feel Empty: The Neuroscience of Meaning and Connection That hollow feeling inside—like something’s missing, even when everything seems fine?

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#psychology #research #science #substack #psychiatry #mentalhealth #bsky

Writers festivals on notice after attempt to 'restrict speech' prompts exodus A Victorian writers festival's code of conduct has set a "dangerous precedent", one author says, after more than 50 writers and moderators withdrew from the event.

Authors' exodus from Bendigo Writers Festival prompts warning to future organisers

#CorpGov #NFP #NobProfit

Victoria
Australia
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Worker sacked for 'grooming' toddlers retains Working with Children Check A string of regulatory failings has seen a Victorian childcare worker retain a legal clearance to work with children — despite being blacklisted from the industry after an investigation found he was g...

This is why working with children checks need a different threshold to police www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Young Australian hospitalised after ChatGPT use An investigation by triple j hack uncovers allegations of young people in Australia being sexually harassed and even encouraged to take their own life by AI chatbots.

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