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 - delegated powers and functions of guardianship (613) Unaccompanied humanitarian minor wards - delegated powers and functions of guardianship (613)
- Unaccompanied humanitarian minor wards - support related costs (614) Unaccompanied humanitarian minor wards - support related costs (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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