The Director of the Institute of Child Protection Studies, Professor Morag McArthur, at the Australian Catholic University in Watson. She says enough money can never be spent on statutory child protection. Photo: Jeffrey Chan When details of a terrible case of abuse or neglect become public, it's often the child protection system that gets blamed for failing to intervene early enough, or to remove children from danger. But have other organisations and the public also failed to intervene and help a family or child in need? Morag McArthur quietly argues that child protection is "just a tiny sliver at the top of quite a significant service system'', but "always gets the blame". "We don't blame...
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