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New child protection laws to remove kids will be retrospect this is so they put your child in care and make money out of the parents

Child protection laws come into effect next month giving parents two years' grace before permanently losing custody of their children.

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VIctoria Legal Aid and the Law Institute have raised serious concerns about tough new child protection laws that will come into effect next month, giving parents two years to get their acts together before permanently losing custody of their children.

The laws will be retrospective, meaning thousands of parents currently subject to a Children's Court order could have just months to prove their ability to look after their children. Others will automatically lose that chance.

The changes will increase the number of children the department can place up for adoption, limit the powers of the Children's Court of Victoria to review decisions made by the department, and make it easier for children to be permanently removed from their parents' custody.

Legal groups are concerned that support services parents have to complete before their child is returned to their care, like men's behavioural change programs, are overburdened and subject to lengthy waiting lists.

The Law Institute says it is unfair to prevent children being returned to their parents due to lack of resources or waiting lists to access services.

Legal Aid's child protection program manager, Lucia Danek, said waiting lists at men's behavioural change programs were several months.

"Those arbitrary timeframes are overlaid on  a system that is exhausted," she said.

Legal Aid's family, youth and children's law executive director, Nicole Rich, said the Department of Health and Human Services was doing its best, but the Children's Court should retain its oversight of department decisions.

"We know that no government department ever gets everything right, and these are really serious decisions, and we need to make sure that every decision is properly scrutinised."

Deb Tsobaris, the chief executive of the Centre for Excellence, a peak body representing nearly 100 child and family services, said the new laws would address the problem of kids floating around "from placement to placement".

But she agreed that more services were needed to support parents trying to have their children returned to them. "We're all worried about that."

Fleur Ward, a lawyer who represents families in the Children's Court and is chairwoman of the Law Institute's children and youth issues committee, said the change "amounts to the permanent, systematic deprivation of children from their parents".

"You can't create these timeframes and not empower the courts to take into account these waiting lists. How can you have a timeframe ticking against people if they're up against waiting lists they have no control over?"

An Auditor-General's report last year found the number of children reported to the Department of Health and Human Services had increased by 92 per cent in the past seven years, to more than 82,000 in the 2013-14 financial year.

Auditor-General John Doyle found that DHHS's early-intervention system was characterised by "systemic deficiencies" and a lack of oversight, and the failure to keep or analyse proper records from the agencies it relies on to deliver early-intervention services to children and families.

"The department does not know whether the services provided are effectively meeting the needs of vulnerable families," Mr Doyle found.

The government says it will review the changes in six months

TRUTH: Child protection services N.S.W. victoria Illegal and unconstitutional Adoption and Foster agencies.this is happening with all australia department of child protection this has got to be stamped out and the system has to be updated the corruption is growing at alarming rate we have to form together and stamp it

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DHS ARE AT THIS STAGE IN LIFE IS REALY CROSSING THE LINE ON A LOT OF THERE CASES

GDAY ALL SIRSLACKCAT HERE DID YOU NO MOST CASES AROUND VICTORIA HAVE DHS  ARE MAKING BIG ILEGAL STUFF UPS IN COURT ALL OVER VICTORIA AND JUDGES ARE MANGAFIE IT IN A MATTER OF SPEACH NOW ALSO THE FORCE IS IN THERE to gee corrumption that sorrounds one there one set of rules for a male to abide by but a femail has none just life sucks in that respect a male speaks up about somthing they sweep it under the carpet and thats true gee and they wonder whythey lose there fackls lol having a son taken from a farther who was put in hostpital as the little boy was staying at a nice clean house with a lovely mannerd lady who was looking after him and was taken out there and thrown to the wolf s how can they legaly do it thats stinks big time l  say they threw a 7 year old to wolfs as he was used as a punching by the other carers how low are dhs taken out of a good loving househole and dhs have done all the above and much more they degrade the male and keep degrading the male they tell one were they can live they all work out of text books yes they are the department of human services and child protection who have no idea on how are a family life should be they use text books they use lyes in court to make themself look good in front of a judge as to degrade a male females can do no wrong thats my view and you can have yours