In evidence to Yoorrook, the Victorian government acknowledged more than half of all child protection notifications made against Aboriginal families were unsubstantiated
Melissa*, an Aboriginal woman, was five weeks’ pregnant when a mark was made against her name – an unborn child protection notification.
Then, once her baby was born, and before her family had arrived, child protection workers turned up at the hospital to consider removing the child. This heartbreaking story was shared by Karinda Taylor, the chief executive of First Peoples’ Health and Wellbeing in evidence to the Yoorrook Justice Commission, Victoria’s truth telling process.
Due to policies and practices that removed – and continue to remove – our babies, almost all of the Aboriginal mothers I know who have given birth in a hospital had some underlying fear that their baby would be taken away by child protection.
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