Stuart Rintoul | September 04, 2008
ONE year after the intervention, the Northern Territory still has the least responsive child care system in the nation despite widespread and entrenched levels of neglect, according to Aboriginal agencies.
In its submission to the federal Government's intervention review team, chaired by indigenous leader Peter Yu, the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care said the Territory's child-protection system remained seriously flawed with "a chronic lack of capacity" to deal with the issue.