Victoria’s state-wide foster care recruitment service Fostering Connections is calling on the Mildura community to open their homes and support children,.
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Well, Well, Well Cal is flying solo as he heads to The Equality Project‘s
LGBTIQA+ Health & Wellbeing Day at Williamstown Town Hall to meet an eclectic mix of practitioners, coaches, and instructors supporting the health and wellbeing of our communities.
Before that, Deb Tsorbaris, CEO of the Centre for Excellence in Child & family Welfare joins the show to talk about the Embracing Equality Charter. The Charter has been recently released by a number of Victorian peak organisations in ally-ship with LGBTIQ+ communities.
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Victoriaâs crisis-focused child protection system must be radically overhauled to shift its attention to early intervention and prevent thousands of vulnerable children from entering residential care, according to the sectorâs peak body.
The coronavirus pandemic exacerbated the challenges many families face and heaped further pressure on a sector already dealing with unprecedented demand as the number of notifications to and investigations by the Child Protection Service tripled over the past 10 years.
Minister for Child Protection Luke Donnellan is being urged to invest in early intervention programs in this yearâs budget.
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The Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare, which represents 150 community service organisations, has urged the Andrews government in its May 20 budget to increase its focus on early intervention programs that keep children safe and ultimately divert them from child protection and the criminal justic
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Deb Tsorbaris is CEO of the Centre for Excellence Child and Family Welfare, and joins us to speak about LGBTI History Month, gaps in current service provision and more.