Working with children, Cummins Inquiry lead media update

Coverage of the working with children check and the Cummins Inquiry leads today’s media update. Domestic violence and foster care changes in NSW also feature.

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Working with Children Check

• Call to drop police checks on teenage workers, Herald Sun, 12 March 2012
• Offenders approved to work with kids, Herald Sun, 12 March 2012 (pay wall)
   

Cummins Inquiry

• Aboriginal children to get advocate, The Sunday Age, 11 March 2012
• ‘Stop stalling’ call on church sex abuse probe, The Age, 10 March 2012
• The silence of the cloth under siege, The Age, 10 March 2012
• Related: Abuse agency clear on loophole, The Age, 13 March 2012
• Vulnerable children in Victoria may have found their champion, The Age, 9 March 2012
   

Domestic violence

On the weekend , The Sunday Age continued its excellent coverage of domestic and family violence. 

• Men come face to face with family violence, The Sunday Age, 11 March 2012
• ‘At the time you get an adrenalin rush, but the regret is overwhelming’, The Sunday Age, 11 March 2012
• ‘I see now – emotional violence cuts to the bone’, The Sunday Age, 11 March 2012
• ‘When asked why they are here, not one guy admist it’s his fault’, The Sunday Age, 11 March 2012
   

Foster care changes in NSW

• Foster care regime in NSW to go private, The Age, 13 March 2012

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