Fabricated Risk, Family Destruction And Institutional Abuse

Alecomm Senate Submission: The Evidence They Ignored

Australia’s Child Protection Industry: A Self-Perpetuating Machine of Fabricated Risk, Family Destruction And Institutional Abuse
Damning Evidence From Alecomm’s 2018 Senate Submission On Out-Of-Home Care

This report is drawn directly from the Australian Legislative Ethics Commission (Alecomm) submission titled “Promoting Innovation in Child Protection – Children in Out of Home Care in Australia 2014”, tendered to the 2014 Federal Senate Inquiry. Alecomm, a volunteer-run charity supporting affected families, compiled data from 151 completed submissions (out of 1,730 started) plus 653 written complaints and case audits spanning 20 years. The pattern is unmistakable: Australia’s child protection authorities do not protect children — they manufacture risk, remove children en masse on flimsy or false grounds, place them in harmful environments, and shield themselves from accountability.

1. Fear Silences The Victims — The System Operates In Darkness

• Only 151 of 1,730 participants completed their submissions to the Senate Inquiry.
• The vast majority were too terrified of retaliation: reduced contact, punishment of their children in care, or further removal.
• 48% of those who did submit requested their testimony remain “in confidence” out of fear of caseworker intimidation and reprisals.

This is not a system that welcomes scrutiny. It is a system that punishes those who speak.

2. Removals Without Investigation — “Possible Future Risk” As A Blank Cheque

• 87% of cases reported no investigation of the family prior to forced removal.
• 86% reported that even after removal, no thorough investigation ever occurred.
• 68% of children were taken without any warning.
• 57% of removals (85 cases) were justified solely on “possible future risk of harm” — a purely subjective, evidence-free opinion of a caseworker.
• 76% of parents stated the allegations against them were false. Only 9% said they were true.

Children are not being rescued from proven danger. They are being seized on speculation.

3. Rampant Fabrication, Perjury And Dishonesty In Court

• 89.4% reported extreme bias by child protection workers.
• 88% reported abuse of power.
• 84% reported a serious miscarriage of justice.
• 83.4% reported blatant dishonest reporting.
• 75% reported fabricated evidence.
• 48% reported caseworkers lied under oath (perjury).
• 75–81% reported caseworkers lied in affidavits and reports; 77% said they fed court reporters only information that suited them, rendering reports inaccurate in 87% of cases.

Magistrates routinely rubber-stamp these documents. Caseworkers who are subpoenaed frequently fail to appear (only 25% comply). When lies are exposed, nothing happens.

4. Domestic Violence Used As A Weapon — Not A Reason For Protection

• 61% of cases were accused of domestic violence; 40% of those accused said it was a false allegation.
• Caseworkers and solicitors routinely pressured parents to separate or take out restraining orders “to get the children back” — yet in the vast majority of cases this made no difference.
• Shockingly, 14% of cases reported the department returned children to the perpetrator of domestic violence, an abuser, or a known paedophile.

The system does not protect victims. It weaponises their trauma.

5. Children Harmed In “Care” — Complaints Ignored

• Parents reported their children suffering abuse, injury or neglect while in out-of-home care at rates that match the earlier Senate survey data (over 60% in related submissions).
• 61% of parents said their concerns about abuse in care were ignored.
• Caseworkers routinely cover up harm by approved carers (53.6% of cases).

Former children in care who responded confirmed 70.6% suffered abuse while wards of the state.

6. No Support, No Restoration — Only Permanent Separation

• 88% of families received no support services to prevent removal.
• 91% said the department did not work with them for a better outcome; 86% said it worked against them.
• 85% were never given the opportunity to have their children returned.
• 56% of parents who completed every demanded course or requirement still did not get their children back.
• Care plans almost universally state “no possibility of restoration” with zero evidence required — and courts grant orders until age 18 on this basis.

7. Devastating Human Cost — Generational Trauma By Design

Parents reported catastrophic impacts:

• 92.5% — extreme stress
• 90.2% — grief
• 88% — frustration and feelings of injustice
• 87% — anger and loss
• 81% — sadness; 71% — depression and anxiety
• 46% — Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Financial ruin, relationship breakdowns, job loss, housing instability and isolation are the norm. Extended families are deliberately cut off. The system does not merely remove children — it destroys entire families.

Conclusion: Not Protection — A Cartel Of Family Destruction

Alecomm’s analysis, built on 151 Senate submissions and 653 audited complaints, reveals a child protection apparatus that:

• removes children first and invents justifications later,
• fabricates evidence and commits perjury with impunity,
• ignores abuse in care while punishing families who complain,
• operates without meaningful oversight or accountability, and
• profits from the perpetual cycle of removal, “care” placements and forced adoptions.

This is not incompetence. It is a business model. The data is overwhelming, consistent across states and territories, and corroborated by thousands of documented cases. Australia’s child protection authorities have become one of the largest sources of harm to children and families in the country.

The Senate was warned in 2014–2018. The evidence was handed to them in black and white. Nothing changed.

The system is not failing children.
It is succeeding at exactly what it is designed to do.