Social workers are divided over whether the lead child protection practitioner role should become a protected title ...

Childhood is often described as the safest chapter of life. In reality, whether a child grows up protected depends not just ...

Social workers would have faced a fee of $500 or less to join a proposed registration scheme which has been scrapped, in large part, over cost concerns.

Relatively modest increases in income will help avoid families requiring child protection interventions, finds research ...