Visit by UK child protection expert leads update

Coverage of the visit of UK child protection expert, Professor Eileen Munro, leads today’s media update. Foster care, child mothers, a report on the Queensland child protection system, and the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission also feature.

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Visit by UK child protection expert, Professor Eileen Munro

• Child protection review, ABC 7.30 Victoria, 9 December 2011
   
• Background: Professor Eileen Munro on 7.30 Victoria
   
• Background: Munro Review
   

Support for foster carers

• No room for misers in foster care, The Sydney Morning, 10 December 2011
   

Child mothers

• Girls of 11 and 12 now mums, Sunday Herald Sun, 11 December 2011
   

Queensland child protection report

• Child guardian report: child protection system 2009–2010, Australian Policy Online, 12 December 2011
   

Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission (ACNC)

• Media release for Draft Exposure Bill, Assistant Treasurer, Australian Government, 9 December 2011
   
• Exposure Draft: Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission Bill, 9 December 2011
   

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