Why are First Nations children still not coming home from out-of-home care?
- Written by BJ Newton, Senior Research Fellow in Social Policy and Social Work, UNSW Sydney

Reducing the number of First Nations children in out-of-home care is a priority of the national Closing the Gap targets.
However, child protection authorities have been removing First Nations children from their parents at increasing rates over the past decade. This is due to a range of factors, including over-surveillance of First...