Case 26: Meaningful access to Aboriginal culture in out-of-home care

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Aboriginal children are over-represented in child protection systems and are often removed from their family and placed in the care of non-Aboriginal families. Victoria’s Commission for Children and Young People relied on the cultural rights obligations in the Charter to support its recommendations for government and community service organisations to better identify and record Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander status in the child protection system and to make sure that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care have meaningful access to their culture.

Source: Commission for Children and Young People, Always was, Always will be Koori children: Systemic inquiry into services provided to Aboriginal children and young people in out-of-home care in Victoria,
2016.