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In Australia\u2019s state of Victoria, the Yoorrook Commission reconvened on April 27 for a further round of hearings in which public servants, government ministers and senior police officers are to be questioned over the failure to address the systemic injustice faced by Victorian First Peoples in the child protection and criminal justice systems. It showed alarming statistics on the impact of colonisation on Aboriginal children. And prompted contrition from the state\u2019s authorities.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Opening last week\u2019s hearings before the Yoorrook truth commission<\/a> in Melbourne, southeastern Australia, Commission chair Eleanor Bourke reflected on the \u201chistoric moment\u201d of an Aboriginal-led inquiry \u201casking questions to people in positions of authority, people who should be accountable about why things have happened and how certain policies remain.\u201d The delayed hearings were originally scheduled for mid-March, but were postponed over the government\u2019s repeated failure to answer questions and provide documents to Yoorrook by agreed deadlines. Commissioner Burke said<\/a> earlier this month that the state\u2019s tardiness \u201cdemonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the truth-telling process. It is more business as usual.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a letter appended to a government submission to the Commission, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews acknowledged that the ongoing overrepresentation of First Peoples in the criminal justice and child protections system is \u201ca source of great shame\u201d for the government, accepting that discrimination and mistreatment in these systems \u201care not confined to history \u2014 they persist to this day.\u201d Andrews accepted that \u201csignificant structural change\u201d is required to \u201cachieve self-determination and justice,\u201d hailing his government\u2019s commitment to negotiate a treaty with Victoria\u2019s First Peoples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The substantive element of the government\u2019s submission, focused on the child protection system, continued in a similar vein. The government acknowledged the impact of colonisation on the overrepresentation of Aboriginal children in child protection and recognised \u201cthe critical role of self-determination\u201d in seeking to remedy the system and its outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe State\u2019s dispossession of First Peoples, the forced removal of their children, and denial of Law, Lore and culture, created the conditions for the intergenerational trauma and social and economic inequality experienced today,\u201d the submission said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alarming statistics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The submission presented alarming statistics that 1 in 10 Victorian Aboriginal children were in care as at June 2022, and were 22 times more likely to be in care than non-Aboriginal children. The government partly attributed this inequality to \u201cstructurally biased system and decision-making\u201d which play a role in \u201cincreasing the likelihood that risk is substantiated and protective intervention, including taking a child into care, will proceed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notably, the government also accepted that \u201cthe current service system is not well adapted to meet the needs of First Peoples nor to provide access to culturally appropriate services that help prevent or address risk factors.\u201d Legislation, policies and procedures which drive interventionist approaches, and the impact of conscious and unconscious bias by reporters and decision-makers in the child protection system were partly blamed for these failures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the government lauded the success of programs transferring child protection decision-making powers to Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations (ACCOs), it remains unavoidable that the rates of Aboriginal children in care have risen markedly in recent years. The rate of Aboriginal children having some interaction with the child protection system increased from 14.6% at the end of 2016 to 20.9% in 2022, and the rate of children in out of home care rose from 7.4% to 10.4% in the same period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Racism in child protection services<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It was against this background that Argiri Alisandratos, Acting Associate Secretary of the Department of Families, Fairness and Housing (DFFH), the public service body responsible for child protection, appeared before the Yorrook Commission on April 27 and 28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alisandratos acknowledged that the DFFH had \u201cso far failed to reduce the rates of overrepresentation,\u201d but pointed to a \u201cpromising\u201d recent 3% fall in the rate of Aboriginal children in out of home care as a sign that the Department was making progress. Commissioner Travis Lovett responded: \u201cWe\u2019ve got to be more aspirational than that\u2026seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under questioning from Commissioners, the public servant accepted that bias and racism existed amongst child protection workers and the system at large, and could influence judgements of harm: \u201cThat is one significant driver, and racism exists right across the broader system because children\u2019s pathway into child protection is a product of judgements that have been made by community members and other professionals.\u201d To this end, Alisandratos was unable to say whether the department was a safe environment for child protection staff to report racism from colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weak cultural safety plans and funding concerns<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It emerged that the Department had substantially failed to meet its target of providing 100% of children in the system with a cultural safety plan to ensure that they maintain connections to cultural values, beliefs and identity. Commissioner Kevin Bell said that \u201ca system which produces shameful rates of child removal of indigenous people from their family is a shameful system, and it's shameful in this respect.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where cultural support plans do exist for children in permanent care \u2013 not a common mode of care for Aboriginal children \u2013 there is no review of their implementation and any potential for enforcement is left to birth parents bringing a court application, the Commission heard. \u201cThe department ceases its responsibilities through the issuing of a permanent care order,\u201d Alisandros said. Commissioner Sue-Anne Hunter bemoaned the situation: \u201cThese children will then be lost to culture, country, family, mob if no one has oversight of making sure these orders [are enforced]. We are relying on goodwill and probably [the carer\u2019s] money spent on making sure these kids keep connected.\u201d Further, there exists no specific program set up to support non-Aboriginal permanent carers of Aboriginal children, the Commission was told.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Commissioners emphasised the disconnect between moves to transfer greater responsibilities to ACCOs and kinship carers, and the concomitant levels of funding required. Commissioner Maggie Walter expressed concern that \u201cresponsibility for failure will be handed over to Aboriginal people while the system won\u2019t change.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fiona Mcleod SC, counsel assisting Yoorrook, questioned Alisandros on gaps in the kinship carer system \u2013 where children are placed with members of extended family or existing social circles \u2013 with the public servant admitting that, in 98% of cases, \u201cit\u2019s longer than six weeks before anybody confirms what the kinship carer needs to provide: a safe, secure and nurturing home.\u201d Not provisioned with timely and adequate assistance, kinship carers have in some instances been unable to transport children in their care to school and essential appointments, further continuing a cycle of inequality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An apology<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Often supporting children in addition to their own families, or dealing with old age and the \u201cburden of intergenerational trauma and other compromised social determinants,\u201d kinship carers are further disadvantaged by inequalities in the welfare system. The Commission heard that 96% of kinship carers received the \u201clowest level of care allowance\u201d, compared to 32% of foster carers. Alisandros assured the commissioners that DFFH will be \u201clooking at\u201d methods of \u201cgetting more suitable support to kinship carers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the Commission traversed further issues of crossover between the child protection and criminal justice systems, and cultural safety training for child protection workers, Alisandros ended with an apology:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI accept the significant level of shame that we have openly acknowledged in terms of our delivery of support to First Peoples across the state. I accept that we have not provided adequate support and we have failed many, many children and young people.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further government witnesses from the child protection system will appear in front of the Commission next week, before hearings progress onto criminal justice issues over the coming fortnight. Evidence heard at these and prior hearings will inform a critical issues report in August, outlining the Commission\u2019s findings and recommendations for reform in the child protection and criminal justice systems.<\/p>\n\n\n

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In Australia\u2019s state of Victoria, the Yoorrook Commission reconvened on April 27 for a further round of hearings in which public servants, government ministers and senior police officers are to be questioned over the failure to address the systemic injustice faced by Victorian First Peoples in the child protection and criminal justice systems. 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