Welfare Systems and Services in Australia - Child Protection

This essay discusses child protection welfare and services in Australia, including the government's steps to protect children and improve the welfare system.

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Topic: Child protection Welfare and Services in Australia
Welfare aspect in Australia has made some administrative moves to strengthen the
enhancement and development of the different aspect of the nation. The social security and the
social welfare system is working over the ages people, human resource problems,
unemployment, the rate of illiteracy, self-service, health and care, child health-related problems,
medical evolvement and social service finder. This is a process that allocates for the individual
and even in families. There are some welfare-related tax concession issues and a good amount of
assistance is needed for redistribution process (Bijleveld, Dedding & Bunders‐Aelen, 2015). The
income of aged people is less and improved participation of government can make a good
structural change in the welfare process. In case of income support, ‘Department of Social
Services 2014a’ manages the process and through this age pension or the family tax benefit is the
key approach that delivering the social security of aged people. The relationship counselling,
emergency action at the relief of crisis and child protection and assist vulnerable child is the
prime aspect of the Australian welfare act.
In this essay, the thesis statement relies on the Child protection in Australia and what are
the possible steps that Australian government has taken for children. One in 32 children received
the protection service and almost 73% of this process is the repeat children (Aihw.gov.au, 2017).
That signifies outstretch is not possible in the case or the protection is not properly allowed over
children and this must be a drawback for the welfare. The rate of substantiations rose from 7.8 to
9.0 per 1000 children in Australia and that is the main reason for getting better opportunities will
come in Australia (Van Bijleveld, Dedding & Bunders-Aelen, 2014).

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In Australia, the state and territory are responsible for child protection and try to mitigate
the possible risk that imposed on children. There are different jurisdiction allowed in that case
and ‘family support issue' or a ‘child protection notification' is the important handling in that
issue. The care and protection is the key order that government need to pass for the development
situation of the children or the situation they are in. The system of Out-of-home care is the basic
process that needs adequate care for children (Canfield et al., 2017). The accommodation family
conflict and the out of home care is the key process as the children are not at home, maybe in
school, library or another places, they need to be safe and their safety concern the government
and especially in case of aboriginals and Torres Strait children (Bilson & Martin, 2016). The
jurisdiction process and the holistic way of re-entering child process in the different location is
the key process to save children. The availability of legal process and notification for health
services is the key measure that encourages the welfare process of children.
66% of children abused in home-based care and the 37% are considered abused in the
residential care, so the child protection act and set the improving process in the operation is the
key stages that fostering the process (Aihw.gov.au, 2017). There are several projects that come
up in the process and in case of education and other important cases, child wellbeing like the
skills they have and the productive nature of the children in future is the key aspect, for that
reason they need to be saved by the government (Tilbury et al., 2015). Children are from
different backgrounds and that is the main concern of the health and safety processes to provide
them with the optimum place in that good health care system that has formed and cultural,
psychological and infrastructural change in environment. There are some protocols in the child
development cases in Australia and government home-care provider is the key issue that reduces

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the exploitation of children and mitigates the issues of sexual abuse and the proven the
promotion and culture of the under-privileged processes.
The reform process of legislation implementation is the key process that needs to be
impacted on children education and provide the proper place to success. National Child
Protection data in case of online metadata and child report from Australia. With massive welfare
government policies perhaps the encouragement to innovate is subordinate as low-skilled
personnel still lead respectable survive so there is no necessity to be unexpected. Now on
competence, maybe no welfare government process means that business is more effectual, most
of the children have taken the initiative of that. The administration process is the key concern for
the children as they need the safe environment and safe place to stay back and enjoy their life
hazardless way. $20.7 million investment has been done by the Australian government for the
welfare of the Australian people and long-term welfare process has been introduced in this way
(Aihw.gov.au, 2017).
There is a hint of rising has been highlighted in child protection case as 25% more child
has been protected in the last 5 years. This is a phenomenal job that Australian government has
come up and that service followed up from 26.0 per 1000 children to 30.8 in 1000 children. This
is a huge increment for the government. The number of announcements and the proportion of
those announcements inspected is not similar through jurisdictions, as legislation and strategies
that deliver the outline for evaluating child protection announcements vary approximately across
jurisdictions. Nationally, almost 0.3% of notification has come directly from the children in
different sectors and that is good news for the children personnel point of view (Aihw.gov.au,
2017). In a whole, less than half (44%) of the 112,164 children in confirmed inquiries were the

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focuses of corroborations in 2016–17 and will give children under the same belt of protection
(Aihw.gov.au, 2017).
Therefore, it can be concluded that Australian welfare progression is quite evolving in
global aspect and try to become a parameter that other countries will follow. However, calculated
numbers need to be improved and all the jurisdiction and policies are evolved and accumulate
different children age groups. The calculation rate of children is higher than normal and more
activities and announcement even door to door campaigns can enhance the situation a lot more
suitable for the children, who are not familiarized with the situation in Australia. For them, it will
be the safest arena to be move on and place a proper juncture to stay in.

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References
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Bilson, A., & Martin, K. E. (2016). Referrals and child protection in England: One in five
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