The death of a 10-year-old boy in foster care is a grimly familar one. Existing ‘prevention schemes’ aren’t preventing anything and must be reformed
. Family and community are devastated and the incident is so utterly awful – the child so young – that it catches national attention.This wasn’t March this year. It was March 2016.
It was the second such WA inquiry in just over a decade. In 2008, former WA coroner Justice Alastair Hope examined 22 deaths by self-harm – with particular focus on links to alcohol and drugs – and pronounced the suicide rate among Indigenous young people in the Kimberley increasing at an “alarming” rate.
Accompanying that recommendation, her key observation applied to every case: “The deaths of the 13 children and young persons the subject of this Inquest were all preventable.” Burney told ABC Radio National this week that there must be a greater emphasis on prevention, not “waiting till a child or a family gets to the edge of a cliff and falls off and an ambulance at the bottom waiting for us”.
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