1. Introduction
2. Child Protection Act 1999 (The Act)
3. Litigation Model
4. Applications to the court: preliminary orders
5. Applications to the court: child protection orders
6. Withdrawal of application
7. Making a child protection order
8. Declining to make a child protection order
9. Application in a proceeding
10. General provisions to note re: proceedings
11. Extraterritoriality
12. Appeals
13. Interstate transfer of child protection orders and proceedings
14. Domestic violence and child protection interface
15. Youth justice interface
16. Human Rights Act 2019 (Qld)
17. Appendix 1: Links between social disadvantage, child abuse and neglect
18. Appendix 2: Legal aid referral for social assessment report
19. Appendix 3: Common directive orders magistrates may make on adjournment
20. Appendix 4: Comparing the long-term child protection orders
21. Appendix 5: If an adult party to a proceeding is thought to lack capacity
22. Appendix 6: Child advocates and their role
23. Appendix 7: Comparison of child representatives
24. Appendix 8: Table of cases with reference to issue
25. Appendix 9: Table of cases.