The Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare and foster care agencies across Victoria have kick-started the design of a new approach to foster care to better support the changing face of carers and recognise the needs of children who need foster care. At a briefing and roundtable for agencies last week the Centre’s […]
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The Centre has been engaged to deliver the Child Protection Mentorship Mastery workshops to develop leadership capacity for structured mentoring across Victoria’s Child Protection workforce. The learning is open to Department of Families, Fairness and Housing (DFFH) staff at CPP5’s, above and equivalent level. The workshops are to be delivered focusing on: Communications techniques, Providing
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The Research Review delivers the latest research relevant to the child and family services sector direct to your inbox. In this month’s Research Review, we highlight two pieces of research concerned with young people and their mental health – one exploring the impact of the out-of-home-care experience on mental health and wellbeing, and one International
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The final report on the extent and nature of poverty in Australia delivers little in the way of solutions to end poverty in Australia, according to the Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare CEO Deb Tsorbaris. Despite receiving over 250 submissions and holding 9 public hearings over the past 18 months, the inquiry
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