Increase in child protection investigations, but fewer finding abuse
Tristan Donovan
Monday, June 11, 2018
An increasing proportion of children are subject to official child protection investigations before their fifth birthday, despite a drop in the number of probes uncovering abuse or neglect, an academic has found.

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