Supporting Families

• Background
  • Queensland Child Protection Commission of Inquiry
  • The findings of the Inquiry
  • Queensland Government response
  • Investing in families and children
  • Supporting Families Changing Futures 2019-2023
  • Strategy and action plan for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families
  • Queensland First Children and Families Board
• Partners in reform
  • Local level alliances
  • Regional Child, Youth and Family Committees
    • Torres Strait Regional Child, Youth and Family Committee
    • Cairns, Cassowary Coast and Tablelands Regional Child, Youth and Family Committee
    • Townsville Regional Child, Youth and Family Committee
    • Mt Isa Regional Child, Youth and Family Committee
    • North Coast Regional Child, Youth and Family Committee
    • Central Queensland Regional Child, Youth and Family Committee
    • South West Queensland Regional Child, Youth and Family Committee
    • Brisbane Regional Child, Youth and Family Committee
    • South East Queensland Regional Child, Youth and Family Committee
  • Child Protection Reform Leaders Group
  • Interdepartmental Committee
  • Stakeholder Advisory Group
• Implementing the reforms
  • Sharing responsibility for children's safety and wellbeing of Queensland children
  • Supporting Queensland families earlier
  • Working better with Queensland families who are in contact with the child protection system
  • Improving care and post-care for Queensland children and young people
  • Meeting the needs and requirements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, families and communities
  • Delivering quality services to Queensland children and families through a capable, motivated workforce and client-focused
  • Building an accountable, transparent and cost-effective Queensland system
• Achievements
• News
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3. Sharing responsibility for children's safety and wellbeing of Queensland children

Queensland Government reforms being delivered under this strategic direction are based on the principles that:

• caring for children and keeping them safe is a shared responsibility
• stakeholders across the child and family system jointly lead the design, development and delivery of services.

The reforms include:

• accepting the Queensland Child Protection Commission of Inquiry’s recommendations and committing $421 million in funding to implement the reforms (recommendation 15.1)
• incorporating the required contributions to child safety reform agenda into Ministerial Charter Letters (recommendation 12.1)
• establishing a governance model, including non-government representation at key levels and nine Regional Child and Family Committees across the state to drive the reform agenda from the ground up and ensure enduring community partnerships (recommendations 4.13, 6.2, 12.4, 12.12)
• establishing and appointing a Principal Commissioner and Commissioner to the Queensland Family and Child Commission to provide oversight of Queensland’s child protection system and partner with other government and non-government agencies to ensure that best practice services are being delivered to children and families (recommendation 12.3)
• establishing the Queensland Family and Child Commission Advisory Council, made up of a panel of experts in the field of family support and child protection, to support the development of collaborative partnerships (recommendation 6.3)
• implementing a public education and social marketing campaign, Talking Families, to encourage parents and families to talk about the pressures of parenting and to seek and accept help when they need it (recommendation 1.1)
• incorporating a single case plan model into the new Intensive Family Support services being rolled out progressively across Queensland (recommendation 5.7)
• developing an engagement strategy to hear the voices of children, families, the community and our partners in planning and implementing the reforms
• partnering with Queensland Foster and Kinship Care to engage with carers across Queensland, as part of the Partners in Care engagement strategy, to hear directly from foster and kinship carers about improving the care system
• collaborative case management takes a coordinated approach to responding to a family's needs to ensure the family gets the right support at the right time from a number of services (recommendation 5.7)
• central and regional governance to oversee the reform program and promote strong collaborative partnerships across the government and non-government sectors (recommendation 6.2).