Children’s Court Clinic

[5-1000] Children’s Court Clinic

Last reviewed: May 2023

The Children’s Court Clinic was created to provide the Children’s Court and higher courts with independent, expert clinical reports, known as clinic assessments, in care and protection matters. The clinical assessments are of:

children and young persons, and/ or
the capacity of parents and others to carry out parental responsibility.

More information about the Children’s Court Clinic can be found at the following websites:

Further references

Additional information can be obtained from the following further references:

assessments of parenting competence —
- K Budd, “Assessing parenting competence in child protection cases: a clinical practice model” (2001) 4(1) Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review 1
- K Budd, “Assessing parenting capacity in a child welfare context” at [18-8000]
- NSW Department of Community Services, Effective parenting capacity assessment: key issues, 2006
- NSW Department of Community Services, “Assessment of parenting capacity: literature review”, Research report, 2005
- NSW Department of Community Services, Parenting capacity assessment: Improving decision-making, 2006
- T Donald and J Jureidini, “Parenting capacity” at [18-7000]
assessments of First Nations parents —
- S Ralph, “Assessment of capacity in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents” (2015) 37(4) InPsych
- R Penman, “The ‘growing up’ of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children: a literature review”, Occasional Paper no 15, Commonwealth of Australia, 2006
- P Choate and A McKenzie, “Psychometrics in parenting capacity assessments: A problem for Aboriginal parents” (2015) 10 First Peoples Child and Family Review
- SNAICC — National Voice for our Children, the Family Matters campaign and the University of Melbourne, The family matters report, 2020
assessments of parents with an intellectual disability —
- Research Centre for Children and Families, Towards Access and Equity: a guide to assessing parenting capacity with parents with intellectual disability, 2022
Refugees —
- Australian Institute of Family Studies, Intimate partner violence in Australian refugee communities, 2018
- Australian Institute of Family Studies, Understanding the mental health and help-seeking behaviours of refugees, 2022
Domestic violence —
- ANROWS, Domestic and family violence and parenting: Mixed method insights into impact and support needs: Final report, Horizons Research Report, issue 4, June 2017
- H Boxall and S Lawler, “How does domestic violence escalate over time?”, Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice, no 626, Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra, 2021
- C Dowling and A Morgan, “Is methamphetamine use associated with domestic violence?”, Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice, no 563, Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra, 2018.