Victoria’s aquatic power brokers have stepped up their concerns for a timely return to indoor pools for essential swimming and water safety programs. Victorian Aquatic Industry Alliance (VAIA) was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thomas Worth's 1872 illustration for the Household Edition of _The Old Curiosity Shop_ highlights her grandfather's grief at ...

New research has found that being in the out-of-home care system increases the likelihood of having multiple ambulance attendances for alcohol, drug, mental health or self-harm among Victorian ...

All Victorian children will get two extra visits to identify developmental delays as the state prepares to launch its Thriving Kids program for those to be shifted off the National Disability Scheme ...

More than 10,000 Victorian children and young people live with a foster or kinship (relative) carer. They enter such care because of court orders aiming to protect them from abuse or neglect. These ...

The Victorian government has rejected Kids Helpline’s plea for funding to meet rising demand from the state’s children, despite the federal, NSW, Queensland and Western Australian governments already ...

While 1950s parenting practices seem shocking today, Victorian-era child-rearing reached levels of cruelty that modern neuroscience reveals caused catastrophic brain damage. From drugging babies with ...

Modern medicine has enabled citizens of wealthy, industrialized nations to forget that children once routinely died in shocking numbers. Teaching 19th-century English literature, I regularly encounter ...