Safe and Supported: the National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children 2021 - 2031

Safe and Supported: the National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children 2021 – 2031 (Safe and Supported) is the framework to reduce child abuse and neglect and its intergenerational impacts, building on the the previous National Framework for Protecting Australia's Children 2009-2020, that laid the critical foundation for national collaboration on protecting Australia’s children. 

Safe and Supported is the key strategy supporting national efforts to make progress under Target 12 of the National Agreement on Closing the Gap, which aims to reduce the rate of over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care by 45% over 10-years (by 2031).