More secure care beds needed for at-risk children, reports show

The authors of a raft of new reports into how child welfare and protection cases are dealt with in courts have said more secure care beds are urgently needed to help those most in need.

The latest volume of reports from the Child Care Law Reporting Project revealed acute cases such as one girl fleeing secure care by jumping from a moving car and then going missing, while a boy with extreme behavioural problems was living in a homeless hostel.