Family life • Australian Governments should urgently prioritise: o prevention and early intervention programs to reduce the number of children entering child protection systems o removing barriers to sustained reunification of children with their families by strengthening services and supports leading up to and post-reunification. • Australian Governments should ensure that data gaps relating to outcomes for children in or having left child protection services are addressed in the national children’s data framework. • The Australian Government should widely publicise the availability of the Transition to Independent Living Allowance for children in out-of-home care, making it available for all care leavers leaving home up to the age of 25, and directly accessible from Centrelink. • Australian Governments should improve exit planning, supports and monitoring of outcomes for young people leaving out-of-home care, including consideration of increasing the age of leaving out-of-home care. Health • The Australian Government should develop a dedicated strategy to communicate and engage with children and young people about the National Disability Insurance Scheme, including to receive their feedback. • The Australian Government should introduce legal protections to prevent sterilisation of children with disability without consent. • The Australian Government should expand and fund the delivery of child targeted mental health and other necessary support services. • The Australian Government should establish a national research agenda on children and young people engaging in intentional self-harm and suicidal behaviour to improve our ability to prevent and respond to these behaviours. The agenda should prioritise: 33