South Australian Child Protection Update

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South Australian Child Protection Update

6/10/18

In August 2016, South Australia’s Child Protection Systems Royal Commission delivered its report, “The Life They Deserve” (Nyland Report). In compiling the Nyland Report, Royal Commissioner Margaret Nyland and her team looked at the laws, policies, practices and structures currently in place in South Australia for children at risk of harm, abuse or neglect. The Nyland Report made 260 recommendations to overhaul SA’s child protection system.

Due to the complexity of the changes required, the SA Government felt it was simpler to replace the current Children’s Protection Act 1993 (SA) with three new Acts and a related framework of child protection legislation.

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