We are ardent protagonists for the Rights of every Australian Child under the protective auspices of The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), to which Australia became a signatory on 22 August 1990, which was ratified on 17 December 1990.
As our children’s rights for safety, liberty, justice and well-being are being exponentially breached and significantly compromised by National Child Protection Services, SHIELD has been inaugurated to address our paramount concern for children who have become increasingly vulnerable to interim or permanent assumption by State and Territorial authorities, in the absence of legally substantiated risk of harm.
Our mission is to advocate for full investigative exposure of State and Territorial child safety protocols and practices in order to seek urgent remediation of the systemic failures including neglect and abuse that continue to severely traumatise children, aggrieved parents and their families, who have borne the full impact of their child or children’s violent removal, separation anxiety, attachment disruption, grief and loss. Pregnant mothers live in abject terror of childbirth, having been informed by Child Protection Services that their newborn baby had been listed for statutory removal at birth.
Final Judicial Orders from Children’s Court proceedings may have been predicated on evidentiary material provided by Child Protection Services containing unsubstantiated risk assessments, frequently performed by poorly trained, non-professional Child Safety Officers, who utilise child risk of harm algorisms that are entirely devoid of scientific reliability or validity.
We collectively concur that Child Protection Services should ideally fulfil and adhere to operational imperatives ensuring the safety and protection of children who have been formally notified as being at substantiated risk of harm in the community.
