Parental Imprisonment and Child Protection: A Study of Children Presented to the Melbourne Children's Court (original) (raw)

2010, Australian Social Work

This paper reports otr L7 stu(l' .funded by the Criminology Reseorch Council, Australia, which set out to int,estigote tlrc intersection between the child protection and criminal iustice systems and tlte cfietft to which children before the Melbourne Children's Court on child protection nt(ltters had a parent currently in prison, awaiting sentencing, or previously in prisott.)[tt,Tistrntes identified 156 children as meetingthese criteria during the study period hne to Decentber, 2006. Analysis of court records gathered quantitative and qualitative dattt tlbotr parents' offending, why the children had been brought to the attention of the cottrt, nnd the health, welfare, and behavioural concerns the child protection service expressed about the children. There was no coordinated response by the child protection nnrl .ittstrce systems to managing these children's situations' Early intervention and the development of child protection service protocols with the corrections system .ior children whose parents enter prison is essential, to better address the instability and disnqtion in care these children experience.

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