National comparisons
As a federation of states and territories that each has responsibility for their own health and welfare issues, Australia does not have one unified system, but rather eight different child protection systems. As a result, It can be a difficult task to describe the different approaches to child protection issues in Australia. To make this easier, the National Child Protection Clearinghouse collates and publishes "national comparisons" for a range of different child protection issues.
- Age of consent laws
- Australian child protection legislation
- Australian legal definitions: When is a child in need of protection?
- CDSMAC National approach for child protection project
- Child protection and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
- Child protection systems
- Children in care
- Children’s commissioners and children’s guardians
- Family group conferencing
- Fatal child abuse
- Mandatory reporting requirements
- National comparison of statutory child protection training
- NCPASS Review of Data Comparability Project
- Pre-employment screening: Working With Children Checks and Police Checks
- State and territory departments responsible for protecting children
- Working with children and police checks