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Private member's bill

It received very wide support from New South Wales organisations related to child health and welfare and was backed by several prominent members of the medical profession, particularly in the paediatric field, notably Dr. John Yu, CEO of Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Sydney (who had been honoured by the Australian Government with the prestigious Australian of the Year award in 1996).


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Aisha Association for Woman and Child Protection

AISHA Association for Women and Child Protection (AISHA), established in 2009, is an independent Palestinian women organization working to achieve gender integration through economic empowerment and psychosocial support to marginalized groups in the Gaza Strip with focus on Gaza City and the North area.

CD Publications

Around the same time, Child Protection Report was folded into Children & Youth Funding Report, following an attempt to promote the former publication on its own.

David Cappo

While completing a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work at the South Australian Institute of Technology (now University of South Australia), Cappo worked as a community welfare officer in the areas of child protection, family support and juvenile offending.

DCFS

Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), British government department responsible for all issues affecting people up to the age of 19 including child protection and education

Disappearance of Joana Cipriano

A child protection specialist, Mark Williams-Thomas, who believes that Joana's and Madeleine's disappearances are related, said that the disappearance of two children unknown to each other, within a period of four years in a seven-mile radius, would be a huge coincidence, especially considering that Portugal is a small country with few abductions.

Human trafficking in Gabon

The government also began rehabilitation of two more centers, and opened more child protection centers in Franceville, Moanda and Tchibanga.

Human trafficking in Togo

The Ministry of Social Affairs, the Ministry of Child Protection, and The National Committee for the Reception and Reinsertion of Trafficked Children assisted victims primarily by alerting two NGOs in Lomé that provide immediate victim care, and by working with these organizations to return victims to their home communities.

Human trafficking in Zimbabwe

The District Council of Beitbridge employs a child protection officer and convenes a child protection committee.

Iris Le Feuvre

In 2007, she was dismissed from her chairmanship of the Jersey Child Protection Committee by Senator Stuart Syvret, the Minister for Health and Social Services at the time.

Shane Dunphy

The respected book One Child by author and child psychologist Torey Hayden was Dunphy's first motivation to work in child protection.