Child Protection Minister Sabine Winton was shouted down by angry workers, demanding more resources to help children they say are being damaged by a broken system.
Jessica Page
An event highlighting the importance of open communication in keeping children safe from child abuse and neglect was held in Albany town square this week.
Melissa Sheil
Striking child protection workers claim regional services are “in a crisis”, putting children in danger, as they continue their plea for lighter caseloads, more staff, and increased resources.
Hannah Whitehead
WA building firm BGC’s top lawyer Ryan Richard Hawkins has admitted to a string of offences — including meth possession and child abuse material.
Caitlyn Rintoul
Domestic violence prevention campaigner Rosie Batty says she feels ‘incredibly angry’, frustrated and sickened by the circumstances surrounding the Floreat domestic violence killings.
Phil Hickey
A former child protection worker has blown the whistle on what happens behind the closed doors of the government’s child protection and family support unit.
Hannah Cross
Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney has put the WA government on notice that it must make fixing child protection services a top priority in the wake of a 10-year-old boy taking his own life.
Katina Curtis
An ex-school teacher who was jailed in 2018 for his role in a disgusting online child sex network has been convicted and jailed yet again for being in possession of horrendous child abuse material.
A primary school in Kalgoorlie-Boulder has been forced to shut until next term after the discovery of an illegal gold-refining Bikie operation involving dangerous mercury nearby.
Carwyn Monck and Bethany Hiatt
A child care centre in Perth’s foothills has been fined $12,000 for failing to adequately supervise kids in their care after a two-year-old was found with bite marks and scratches on their face.
Bethany Hiatt
A depraved, violent and cruel paedophile who is already serving a long sentence in jail — is facing more punishment after admitting to raping two more innocent victims.
Tim Clarke
An education assistant who sneaked a 15-year-old student into her family home to have sex is facing further punishment.
Parents are being warned not to leave their children in running vehicles after the Mid West-Gascoyne’s top cop personally witnessed six such incidents in a matter of weeks.
Jessica Moroney
A Wanneroo childcare centre has been issued a raft of fines after failing to realise a young child had been left behind from a school pick-up.
Rebecca Parish
A national campaign is being launched on Sunday aimed at preventing child sexual abuse.
Joe Spagnolo
The first person to be convicted of rape in WA using DNA technology will stay behind bars for the rest of this year after he was knocked back for parole last week.
Child protection workers will be offered additional allowances of up to $13,000 to take up jobs in the regions as skill shortages impact care for the State’s most vulnerable.
They are the officers who trawl every dark and fetid recess of the internet, searching for paedophiles who seek to entrap and exploit children for their own sick gratification.
WA is the only State with a juvenile prison population regularly exceeding 100 which houses all of its young offenders in a single facility.
Claire Sadler
The mother of Cleo Smith says her child’s abductor wanted a ‘daughter’, as she opened up about the struggles the little girl still faces more than a year and a half after she was snatched.
Kate Purnell
Meet the dedicated new police squad determined to shine a spotlight on arguably the darkest of crimes.
One of WA’s most senior cops has defended the police staffing model used to follow up family violence cases, but admits police can’t solve the significant problem on their own.
A convicted UK sex offender whom WA Police wanted to extradite to face historical child sex offences has died before he could face justice in the WA courts.
Police have charged a young father with assault after his baby daughter suffered a broken arm while at a Perth dog beach.
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