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Out-of-Home Care and Education: Insights from Let Us Learn Webinar

Education in OOHC, Events, Foster Care, Inquiries and Reviews, News, Raising expectations, Residential Care / education, inquiry, lived experience, out-of-home care, Residential Care, The Commission for Children and Young People

The Commission for Children and Young People (CCYP)’s Let Us Learn Inquiry has sparked a vital conversation about education in out-of-home care. Late last month, the Centre’s Raising Expectations team brought together a panel to better understand and delve deeper into the Inquiry. We heard firsthand insights from Commissioners Liana Buchanan, Victoria’s Principal Commissioner for […]

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A contemporary vision for foster care

Foster Care, Fostering Connections, Kinship Care, Media Releases, News, Out of home care (OOHC), Submissions

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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Counting Carers In

CEO Updates, Foster Care, Fostering Connections, Kinship Care, News, Out of home care (OOHC), Women / #CountCarersIn, #CountHerIn, International Womens Day

Couting in the carer economy - visual header for International Women's Day article on the value of the carer economy

“Even though women’s participation in paid work has grown, women continue to work in female dominated occupations, which are often low paid or casual workforces.” says the Centre’s CEO Deb Tsorbaris on LinkedIn. Increasing frustration at the lack of progress for gender equality is moving International Women’s Day away from cupcakes and morning teas

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Play a Part campaign keeps foster care front of mind

Foster Care, News / Foster Care, Fostering Connections

Foster care is being kept front of mind, motivating new carers to apply to foster thanks to Fostering Connections’ Play a Part campaign. The latest market research has revealed people who saw campaigns for foster caring were significantly more likely to consider becoming a foster carer in the future than those who had not seen

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Out-of-Home Care and Education: Insights from Let Us Learn Webinar

A contemporary vision for foster care

Counting Carers In

Play a Part campaign keeps foster care front of mind

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