News coverage from Southern Cross Television of Minister Lin Thorp opening the new Tasmanian branch office of the Australian Childhood Foundation on the 8th December, 2009.
Over the past seven years, the number of reported cases of child abuse and neglect has almost tripled in Australia. In 1999-2000, there were 107,134 reports.
The number of referrals to the Australian Childhood Foundation has increased by 20 per cent during the 2008/2009 Financial Year.
Last year there were more than 872 new reports of child abuse per day. That equates to one child reported abused or neglected every two minutes.
