New CCWT Support Group for Family Group Conferencing Facilitators
From this March ACWA’s CCWT team is hosting a series of free support sessions for Family Group Conferencing Facilitators, who play such a critical role in empowering families to resolve child protection concerns. Family Group Conferencing brings families and significant others together to plan and make decisions about how to keep their children safe and […]
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Contracting Frameworks and Systems: Important Information for FACS Funded Services
Following is an outline of important new resources that have been added to the funded contract management pages on the FACS website to assist service providers: Funded contract management overview The funded contract management overview is a comprehensive look at how funded contract management is positioned in relation to strategic government priorities and how it fits in with the […]
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Expressions of Interest for Alternative Care Arrangements Taskforce
In August 2018, FACS established a time-limited internal think tank called the Alternative Care Arrangements Taskforce (ACAT) to help identify and implement specific and targeted short, medium and long-term strategies and initiatives to create permanency and improve outcomes for children and young people in alternative care arrangements (ACA) that will: Increase transitions to more suitable […]
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NSW Community Sector Alliance Calls For More Essential Services to Address Inequality
ACWA is one of 18 community organisations campaigning to ask all political parties ahead of the NSW election to prioritise building great communities for a fairer NSW. ACWA wants to see bipartisan commitment to policies that will help break the cycle of poverty, which is a key driver of child abuse and neglect in our […]
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ACWA Welcomes New National Child Protection Plan
The Association of Children’s Welfare Agencies (ACWA) has welcomed the release this week of the Fourth Action Plan (2018-2020) under the National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children 2009-2020. Acting CEO Dr Wendy Foote said the NSW peak strongly supports the focus of the Fourth Action Plan on collectively tackling the unacceptable rate of child abuse […]
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