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September 18, 2023

The NDIS has a parent problem. Changes could involve parents more in disability support and reduce stress

Trevor Mazzucchelli, Curtin University; Bruce Tonge, Monash University; Kirsten Baird-Bate, Queensland University of Technology, and Sharon Dawe, Griffith University

Parents are their child’s first and most important supports. Parents and carers of children with disability need help to maximise this relationship – and the NDIS should provide it.

Decisions are difficult and prone to error when risk and protective factors appear to be fairly equal. atikinka/Shutterstock

October 22, 2014

Risky business: how protection workers decide to remove children from their parents

Paul H Harnett, The University of Queensland and Sharon Dawe, Griffith University

Imagine you’re a child protection worker who has received a notification from a teacher voicing concerns about a child in her class. The case involves a five-year-old boy named Toby. Toby’s mum has had…

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