PHOTO: Indigenous children are no 11 times more likely to be in out of home care. IMAGE: NSW Government
The NSW Department of Communities & Justice has come under intense criticism for failing to meet its targets for the over-representations of First Nations children in the state’s out-of-home care system (OOHC).
The NSW Ombudsman’s Aboriginal Outcomes Strategy focus area 2 (out-of-home care) – were the targets achieved? says the department has failed to reduce Aboriginal representation in OOHC and did not achieve any of its four targets set out in the five-year strategy…