SNAICC Submission to the Queensland Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services – Review of the Child Protection Act 1999 (Qld) – January 2017

SNAICC – National Voice for our Children (SNAICC) welcomes the opportunity to make a submission to inform the review of the Child Protection Act 1999 (Qld) (the Act). The review of the Act takes place in the context of an alarming and increasing over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care in Queensland. At 30 June 2016, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children were 42 per cent of all children living away from home in Queensland despite representing only 7.8 per cent of the Queensland child population in 2015.