Cover of Safe Homes, Strong Futures

Safe Homes, Strong Futures

Safe Homes, Strong Futures

By: Social Care Solutions
Listen for free

Season's Savings | 0.99 €/month for 3 months

5.99 €/month thereafter - terms apply. Cancel monthly.

An eight-episode podcast hosted by Mel James — founder and CEO of Social Care Solutions — and

co-hosted by award-winning journalist Amelia Oberhardt.

Mel draws on 25 years as a frontline social worker and 16 years leading child protection and safeguarding

practice across Australia and New Zealand to turn real case scenarios into honest, practical conversations

about what safeguarding actually looks like.

Built for real people, not just professionals. This podcast is for parents, carers and everyday community

members who want to protect the children in their lives but don't know where to start. Several episodes

feature guests with lived experience, including foster carers and a young person who has come through the

out-of-home care system.

Real conversations. Real research. Real steps you can actually use.

Because if it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a whole community to safeguard the next generation.

Copyright 2026 All rights reserved. Social Sciences
Episodes
  • A Blue Card Is Not Enough

    A Blue Card Is Not Enough
    9 Sep 2026

    A Working with Children Check only screens for past convictions, so this episode gives parents a practical framework for judging whether an organisation is truly child-safe.
    Show more Show less
    19 min
  • If I Was Never Parented Well, How Do I Parent Well?

    If I Was Never Parented Well, How Do I Parent Well?
    9 Sep 2026

    A mother repeating the harmful parenting she experienced herself shows what it actually takes to break an intergenerational cycle of harm.
    Show more Show less
    21 min
  • How Does a Parent Come to Harm Their Own Child?

    How Does a Parent Come to Harm Their Own Child?
    9 Sep 2026

    Moving past stranger-danger narratives, this episode unpacks the real drivers behind parental harm: coercive control, mental illness, intergenerational trauma and poverty.
    Show more Show less
    25 min
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1
No reviews yet