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 enable these carers to receive extended payments until the child in care turns 21. https://www.communities.tas.gov.au/children/adoption/support_for_care_leavers/after_care_support_program

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 it a read if you have the time! All credit goes to the Association of Children’s Welfare Agencies, they can […]

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, says lawyer Susan Fahey.Many informal carers are asked by the state to care for their grandchildren but then Child Safety […]