Child safety changes risk separating Australia’s First Nations children from their culture – and causing even more harm (opens original article in a new tab)

Queensland and Northern Territory are considering child protection system changes that could weaken the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle, raising concerns that this may separate First Nations children from their culture and cause further harm.

• Queensland and Northern Territory propose child protection system changes that may weaken the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle (ATSICPP).
• Advocates warn that eroding ATSICPP could separate First Nations children from their culture and cause harm.
• The ATSICPP aims to keep Aboriginal families together, developed after the Stolen Generations era of forced removals.