Table of contents:
Fact sheets and brochures
- Care agreements - Information for parents
- Child abuse - what you need to know
- Child sexual abuse - things you need to know
- Child protection order - Information for parents
- Court assessment order - Information for parents
- Family contact - Information for parents
- Family group meetings: Information for families
- Family group meetings: Information for service providers
- Family group meetings: Information for children and young people
- Intervention with parental agreement: Information for parents
- SCAN team system - Information for parents and guardians
- Support service case: Information for parents
- Support service case: Information for pregnant women
- Support service case: Information for young people transitioning from care
- Temporary assessment order - Information for parents
- When child safety officers visit your home
Guides and manuals
Legislation
- Acts and regulations:
- Child protection legislation: an historical perspective
- Child safety legislation reform
Policies and procedures
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle (609) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle (609)
- Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, families and communities (610) Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, families and communities (610)
Case management
- Care agreements (415) Care agreements (415)
- Case planning (263) Case planning (263)
- Decision making about end of life medical treatment of a child in out-of-home care, in circumstances where their life is threatened due to illness or trauma (420) Decision making about end of life medical treatment of a child in out-of-home care, in circumstances where their life is threatened due to illness or trauma (420)
- Interstate transfers of child protection orders and proceedings (401) Interstate transfers of child protection orders and proceedings (401)
- Intervention with parental agreement (343) Intervention with parental agreement (343)
- Obligations, actions and responsibilities upon the death of a child in out-of-home care (421) Obligations, actions and responsibilities upon the death of a child in out-of-home care (421)
- Structured Decision Making (407) Structured Decision Making (407)
- Support service case (406) Support service case (406)
- Transferring matters between Child Safety Service Centres (347) Transferring matters between Child Safety Service Centres (347)
Intake
- Child concern report (385) Child concern report (385)
- Intake (528) Intake (528)
- Notification (387) Notification (387)
- Structured Decision Making (407) Structured Decision Making (407)
- Transferring matters between Child Safety Service Centres (347) Transferring matters between Child Safety Service Centres (347)
Investigation and assessment
- Care agreements (415) Care agreements (415)
- Investigation and assessment (386) Investigation and assessment (386)
- Structured Decision Making (407) Structured Decision Making (407)
- Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect (SCAN) team system (405) Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect (SCAN) team system (405)
- Transferring matters between Child Safety Service Centres (347) Transferring matters between Child Safety Service Centres (347)
Other
- Information exchange and service delivery coordination (403) Information exchange and service delivery coordination (403)
- Professional supervision (404) Professional supervision (404)
Self-harm and suicide risk
- Assessing and responding to self-harm and suicide risk Assessing and responding to self-harm and suicide risk
Unaccompanied Humanitarian Minor (UHM) program
- Unaccompanied humanitarian minor wards for whom the Department of Communities has accepted the delegated powers and functions of guardianship (613) Unaccompanied humanitarian minor wards for whom the Department of Communities has accepted the delegated powers and functions of guardianship (613)
- Support Related Costs - For a child who is an unaccompanied humanitarian minor ward and for whom the Department of Communities has accepted the delegated powers and functions of guardianship (614) Support Related Costs - For a child who is an unaccompanied humanitarian minor ward and for whom the Department of Communities has accepted the delegated powers and functions of guardianship (614) .
Publications
Websites
For parents
- Children and Youth Health - a South Australian government resource with practical health information for parents, carers and young people.
- Healthy Start - an Australia-wide strategy to support parents with learning difficulties and promote a healthy start to life for their young children.
- Hands On Scotland - a Scottish government sponsored online resource for anyone working with children and young people.
- Parentline - confidential telephone counselling service aimed at providing professional counselling and support for parents and all who have the care of children.
- Raising Children Network - joint Victorian government/community organisation website providing information to help parents with the day-to-day decisions of raising children, and looking after their own needs.
For children and young people
- Bursting the bubble - for teenagers who are living with family violence.
- Children's Week - annual event celebrated in Australia during the fourth week in October.
- CREATE Foundation - non-government organisation connecting and empowering children and young people in care.
- Kids Help Line - confidential and anonymous, 24-hour telephone and online counselling service specifically for young people aged between five and eighteen.
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