There is a significant lack of supports for families with children with disability, which leads to family breakdown. Family breakdown leads to families making the heartbreaking decision to relinquish the care of their children with disability to State or Territory child protection agencies.451
Children with disability, particularly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children with disability are more often placed in inappropriate, successive out of home care arrangements or remain for extensive periods of time in respite care or hospital facilities, which then places them in situations of risk of harm and deprives them of an appropriate family environment.452
