Sentences with phrase «statutory child protection»

It is an Indigenous initiative that aims to ensure that statutory child protection services are culturally appropriate for Indigenous children and families.

It delivers a broad range of services to meet the needs of vulnerable children, young people and families who fall below the threshold for statutory child protection intervention.

I also met with and conducted training sessions for workers and managers within the Family Court of Australia, Family and Youth Services, SA's statutory child protection system, the Police, Attorney - General's Department, a magistrate from Adelaide's Domestic Violence Court, domestic violence services, community health services, family services, and so on.

Add focus on community - led programs, we will be able to amass the information that we need to battle stagnant practices in statutory child protection services across the country that are increasingly removing our children from our care.

The PATRICIA project (see also the description on ANROWS site) looks at the barriers and facilitating factors for collaborative work across statutory child protection, domestic and family violence support services and family law services.

The Child, Youth and Family Support early intervention service model aims to deliver a broader range of less intensive early intervention services to meet the needs of vulnerable children, young people and families who fall below the threshold for statutory child protection intervention.

Clearly delineating access points to early intervention services that are outside of the government statutory child protection regime may encourage parents, families and children to more readily access these early - intervention services.

The Social Justice Report 2007 has a case study on the Lakidjeka Aboriginal Child Specialist Advice and Support Service (Lakidjeka ACSASS), which is an example of an effective Indigenous initiative that works to ensure statutory child protection services are culturally appropriate for Indigenous children and families.

Caseworker numbers reflect frontline caseworkers and caseworker specialists across the community services spectrum, including those working in statutory child protection and out - of - home care.

We respect that the statutory child protection system has a role to play in removing kids from unsafe environments, and where this is necessary, we work with the system to ensure kids removed from home retain the connections to their community and culture which help form their identity.

The Brighter Futures program delivers targeted, voluntary child protection early intervention services to families with children who are at high risk of entering or escalating within the statutory child protection system.

By working together, the sector is better able to provide earlier help to families, to prevent problems escalating and to reduce the number of children and young people entering the statutory child protection system.

Brighter Futures delivers targeted early intervention services to families with children aged under 9 years, or who are expecting a child, where the child / ren are at high risk of entering the statutory child protection system.

This would address one of the concerns identified in the Discussion Paper of children and families being inappropriately drawn into the statutory child protection, where preventative support might be more appropriate.