After working for a peak body, non-profit in child and family welfare in Australia, I will never work in the social services again. The CEOs of foster & residential care providers would have huge fancy gatherings to discuss how to get around government policy stating indigenous young people could only be cared for by indigenous childcare agencies, because indigenous children receive more funding than non.

These CEOs also flew first class to events in the US, and not one of them introduced advanced models to support keeping kids with their parents. Ugh. I could go on and on. It's horrific. I shudder remembering what I saw, and when coworkers and I pressed DHS, they didn't want to hear any of it.