Discounted club fees for girls, bring-a-friend days and more female changerooms are being floated to arrest the alarming dropout rates of teenage girls from team sport.
Smacking should be outlawed to stop parents abusing their children under the guise of discipline, according to a landmark inquiry into family violence in South Australia.
Childcare services that have left children in high chairs for six hours, let them wander onto busy roads or suffer anaphylactic shocks are set to be on a federal hit-list to lose funding.
Children are going missing or being locked outside of childcare centres across the state, and latest data reveals a rise in reports of injuries and illness.
Parents of children at two Adelaide special schools are in limbo after being told out of school hours care services would be cancelled at short notice.
Parents of 47 students who are continually skipping school have been put on notice by education authorities, including the first case in years which could be headed to court.