The Department of Communities Tasmania has passed on documents to us for an Initiative for Foster/Kinship/Third Party Carers who are approved carers receiving carers payments. The initiative is an extended care transition to independence to Read more…
Attached to this post is the Association of Children’s Welfare Agencies released in support and to raise awareness, with the hopeful result of establishing national policies and to help with the direction of this. Give Read more…
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0312407X.2019.1623276?journalCode=rasw20#.XSlzOJ8_EkA.twitter
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/grandparents-stepping-in-after-parents-fail-to-be-there-for-children-20160727-gqexjh.html
Prioritising Grandparent families.
Article by Isabel Bird – The Examiner. Raising Grandchildren: Susan Fahey says informal grandparent carers need help. Informal grandparent carers need free legal help from the government to confirm legal status as carers of their grandchildren, Read more…
MARCH 5 2019 – 4:30AM Raising Grandchildren series | Part 2 Story by Isabel Bird The Examiner newspaper. Grandparent families in Australia are mostly retired, single grandmothers, living on pensions. Raising Grandchildren Read more…
