When I read such things as the piece I quote below I can’t help but think that although the intention seems good that the follow through will be far less so.

ABUSIVE Queensland mums and dads will have one year to become better parents or risk having their children taken away permanently.

A new child-protection unit comes on line next month charged with getting parents of at-risk children to clean up their act.The 31-person team will initially focus on 200 case files where babies and toddlers have experienced serious physical, sexual or other abuse more than once.

Specialist “reunification” officers will first work with parents to help improve parenting skills.

But if parents fail to lift their game within 12 months, “permanency planning” officers will switch to finding the children loving homes via long-term guardianship orders or adoption.

The move marks the advent of the State Government’s long-awaited One Childhood One Chance policy.

Courier Mail

Also I can’t shift the notion that “political correctness” tainted by fears about the alienation of children from their “culture” will still see indigenous children left in situations of abuse for fear that any removals will be cited as evidence of a “New stolen Generation”.

I Hope that this proves to be a better regime for the children who are at risk but the cynic in me thinks that it is just more deckchair shuffling from a Labor government in Queensland who have been far to inept when dealing with such issues for far too long.

Cheers Comrades