Jeremy Sammut on 'Still Damaging and Disturbing'

The latest CIS report by Dr Jeremy Sammut recommends take more timely statutory action to permanently remove children from unsafe homes and provide them with safe and stable homes by adoption by suitable families.

The Abbott government can provide national leadership and take adoption out of the 'too-hard' basket by setting national child protection performance targets, including boosting the number of local adoptions from care to the equivalent of more adoption-friendly countries within the next 10 years.