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gencies and promoting different sectors government and non – government and community working collaboratively providing support to those families that most need support and sharing the responsibility of child rearing and child protection .
The key objectives of Keep Them Safe is to create an integrated system that supports vulnerable children, young people, and their families, it has included the establishment of new reporting and referral arrangements to allow families to access appropriate services from government agencies and non-government services without having to come in contact with statutory child protection
The focus for action has been on the following key areas; the amendment of the Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998 so only children and young people who are suspected, on reasonable grounds, to be at risk of significant harm should be reported to FACS.
The implementation of a universal service system, e.g.:1. Universal parenting education erg: Triple P, for parents with children 3-8, universal home visits to every parent with a new baby.2 Strengthening Early Intervention and Community Based Services e.g., expanding Brighter Futures program, health home visiting for at-risk teenage mothers, 3. Better Protection for Children at Risk e.g.: violence prevention coordination units, review of police response to domestic and family violence incidents 4. Better Supporting Aboriginal Children and Families e.g.; Two Ways Together ten year plan, Universal services: Aboriginal Maternal and Infant Health Strategy, 5. Strengthening Partnership across the Community Services Sector e.g., Building the capacity of the non- government sector, Workforce and cultural change. 6 Changing practice system e.g.; the establishment of the Child Wellbeing Units, the Regional Intake, and Referral Services.
Key reform changes include increasing the threshold for reporting children and young people to the Child Protection Helpline from “risk of harm” to “risk of significant harm”. Establishing Child Wellbeing Units in the major government reporting agencies. Establishing a network of Family Referral Services. Enhanced service provision, including prevention and early intervention services and acute services. Increasing the role of non-government organizations in delivering services. Changes to processes in the Children’s Court. Providing better services to Aboriginal children and young people, with the aim of reducing their over-representation in the child protection system.
Keep Them Safe Reform Review
According to the National Approach to Child Protection Project Report, child protection systems in Australia have experienced higher numbers of notifications and larger administrative burdens. Systems are facing many more complex challenges trying to reduce the number of children which require the state to interject to keep them safe.
The legislative and practice reform in Keep Them Safe have attempted to incorporate a range of core values and principles which are very compatible and complementary to Social work values for working in the child protection context, such as children’s rights , promoting good paren