📣Have your say for children and families ahead of the Victorian state election!
Start the survey here: https://loom.ly/fy0rQVo
Responses to our survey are open until May 10.
#VictoriaVotes2026
📣Have your say for children and families ahead of the Victorian state election!
Start the survey here: https://loom.ly/fy0rQVo
Responses to our survey are open until May 10.
#VictoriaVotes2026
SNAICC’s Sector Transformation Principles Framework is a practical roadmap designed to support organisations to transition OOHC services to Aboriginal community-controlled organisations and embed Aboriginal leadership at the centre of child and family service delivery. Read https://loom.ly/VDwkVhE
The Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare is pleased to announce the appointment of Jamie Crosby as its new CEO, commencing at the end of June.
Read more at: https://loom.ly/-AXBV3M
Nominations for the Victorian Child Protection Awards close in less than 24 hours— with no extensions this year.
📌Nominate by 5:00pm, Thursday 9 April at: www.dffh.vic.gov.au/victorian-protecting-chi...
#VCPA26 #VCPA2026 #ChildAndFamilyServices
Have you submitted your nominations for the Victorian Child Protection Awards yet? Nominations close in 1 week, at 5:00pm on 9 April, with no extensions this year.
📌To nominate visit www.dffh.vic.gov.au/victorian-protecting-chi...
#VCPA26 #VCPA2026 #ChildAndFamilyServices
The Centre’s OPEN Team launched a new online Spotlight page focusing on child-centred practice after fatal fmaily violence and the children’s picture book What Ally Needs Now yesterday.
Learn more at https://loom.ly/BEeKt9Y
Victoria’s child and family services are sounding the alarm as the fuel crisis intensifies, driving a surge in financial hardship for families and placing frontline services under significant strain.
Read the Centre's statement here: https://loom.ly/YIKXEcw
Members of the University of Melbourne’s Homicide at Home Research Group Dr Katitza Chavez and Ashton Kline were on ABC Breakfast this morning ahead of today's webinar - Child-centred practice after fatal family violence.
There's still time to join from 1pm.
Register at https://loom.ly/zEUuK1k
Victoria’s early childhood regulator has, for the first time, exercised new powers to immediately suspend an educator following allegations of excessive force at an outside school hours care (OSHC).
Read https://loom.ly/xndZm_Q
"I can’t think of a time - in my lifetime at least - when standing up and speaking up against racism and discrimination, vilification and violence, has been more critically important," says the Centre's Interim CEO Dr Michele Lonsdale reflecting on #CulturalDiversityWeek.
https://loom.ly/y_Zy7sM
New and free to read in #ChildrenAustralia: Practitioners’ views on training and systemic barriers to deal with child sexual exploitation in residential care
By Emma Rees, Ben Mathews and Conrad Townson
https://doi.org/10.61605/cha_3071
#ChildSexualExploitation #ResidentialCare #ChildWelfare
Federal legislation has passed through Parliament increasing the independence and powers of the National Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People.
More at https://loom.ly/bbvwbeY
"I feel like all the normal things that you do when you're a teenager — that was stripped away from me," says Kesh who found himself homeless during year 12.
Read more at https://loom.ly/BdQ7Tro
Victorian Protecting Children Awards
Do you know someone who has helped ensure children, young people and families are safe, supported and thriving? Nominate them today for the annual Victorian Protecting Children Awards (VCPA).
📌Submit by 5pm, Thursday 9 April at www.dffh.vic.gov.au/victorian-protecting-chi...
"Governments need to step up ….They must be brave and face down populist responses in favour of policies that will work to make children and communities safer,” said SNAICC CEO Catherine Liddle at a Senate inquiry into the youth justice and incarceration system this week.
https://loom.ly/OZ7eAW0
Do you know someone who has helped ensure children, young people and families are safe, supported and thriving? Nominate them today for the annual Victorian Protecting Children Awards (VCPA).
📌Submit by 5pm, Thursday 9 April at www.dffh.vic.gov.au/victorian-protecting-chi...
We loved having Clare Holdsworth (UK), Voice and Influence Team Manager at Sheffield City Council, at the Centre last week for a sector gathering focused on building meaningful, safe and impactful employment pathways for care experienced young people.
See https://loom.ly/hRwVytM
#CorporateParenting
The Centre welcomes landmark Victorian reforms this week to strengthen support for children and young people relying on the care system.
Read our media release at: https://loom.ly/yhUZrrI
#StrongerFamilies
“Listening to children isn’t a sentimental exercise … it’s what makes systems safer, smarter and more effective.” says Associate Professor Tim Moore, Deputy Director of ICPS. "When used well, their voices can have a significant impact on policy and practice.”
Read: https://loom.ly/x0zO2I0
Victoria’s proposed community parenting model makes it clear that raising children in care is a shared government responsibility, not the job of one department alone.
Read the media release: https://loom.ly/yL8jGF4
The Justice Legislation Amendment (Family Violence, Stalking and Other Matters) Bill 2025, aimed at improving protections for victim‑survivors and increasing accountability for perpetrators, received Royal Assent on 10 February 2026.
Read https://loom.ly/6wzldK8
Parents are furious that it will take until 2029 for the NCCC to be fully operational and that states and territories must opt in to the system with no deadline for them to do so.
Read https://loom.ly/O5Cr6-4
Applications for the Switch to Child Protection 2026 program are open.
📌 Earn while you learn, and make a positive change to the lives of children, young people, families and carers.
Apply by Monday 23 March 2026, 11:59 pm.
Learn more: https://www.dffh.vic.gov.au/switch-child-protection
The 2024–25 Productivity Commission Report on Government Services captures how children and families experience risk, support, and intervention over time.
#RoGS26 Child Protection Summary at https://loom.ly/IcAGooM
“This is far from a handout. This change represents a leg-up for families and an opportunity for the children who are set to benefit the most from early education to get access,” says SNAICC CEO Catherine Liddle.
More at thesector.com.auequity-100-hours-early-learning-matters-the-sector/
Grandparent Lucy funded her daughter’s legal case, which was described as one of the worst examples of an alleged perpetrator using the court system to enact revenge.
Read more: https://loom.ly/hcZeLHU
#FamilyCourt
"Instead of reducing crime or promoting community safety, detention compounds trauma, disconnects children from education, family and community, and increases the likelihood they will continue to commit crimes," says Anne Hollonds, Justice Reform Initiative.
More at https://loom.ly/4uZgPKI
🌈🌈🌈The Centre is excited to be marching at Midsumma Pride on Sunday from 10.30am, celebrating LGBTQIA+ pride in the heart of St Kilda.
#CentrePride #MidsummaFestival #AllKindsOfKids
Young victim-survivors of family violence say they need to be treated as individuals and not an extension of Women's Safety funding, and the frontline focus needs to be on case management, not healing.
Read https://loom.ly/-vbzq-Y