Three-day out-of-home care conference opens today in Adelaide
Young people who grew up in out-of-home care will open CREATE Foundation’s national conference, Voices in Action: Your Stories. Stronger Together today alongside leaders and officials. Over the next three days, Voices in Action will bring together key decision-makers, young people with a lived experience in out-of-home care (including foster care, residential care and kinship […]
World Care Day: Celebrating kids in care and calling for their voices to be properly heard
World Care Day, the world’s biggest celebration of children who grow up in out-of-home care, is this Friday, 16 February. While it’s an annual celebration marked with events for children and carers around the country, it’s also a crucial opportunity to hear from young people about their journey of care and what needs to happen […]
CREATE Foundation calls on QLD to cease locking up children in adult watch houses
CREATE Foundation has renewed calls on the Queensland Government to immediately cease detaining children in adult watch houses following the Guardian Australia article that exposed “horrendous” and “inhumane” conditions in the Cairns police watch house. The allegations of human rights abuses inside the Far North Queensland watch house, including children not receiving adequate food, medical […]
Queensland’s Transition to Adulthood Month Paves the Way for a Brighter Future for Youth in Out-of-Home Care
Queensland’s Transition to Adulthood Month Paves the Way for a Brighter Future for Youth in Out-of-Home Care The much-anticipated Transition to Adulthood Month (T2A Month) kicks off today and is celebrated across Queensland throughout November. T2A Month sheds light on the exciting and yet daunting road to adulthood that many young care leavers face, and […]
CREATE’s Statement on the Voice outcome
Despite disappointment around the outcome of the referendum for many organisations and communities, collective efforts towards ensuring the rights of First Nations children and young people to have a voice and be heard remain steadfast. As of 30 June 2022, of the 45,393 children and young people in out of home care, 19,432 identified as […]
Urgent Action Needed to Address Over-representation of Aboriginal Children in South Australia’s Child Protection System
CREATE welcomes the preliminary report of the Inquiry into the application of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle (ATSICPP) in the removal and placement of Aboriginal children in South Australia. The Inquiry has shown that the ATSICPP is not being effectively applied through policies, practices and procedures, and as a result, Aboriginal […]
Disturbing Footage out of the Northern Territory Sparks Calls to Protect Kids’ Rights
Last week The Australian newspaper released distressing footage and images of a child being forcibly removed from a home in the Northern Territory by police officers. It is believed the child was in the care of the NT’s Territory Families Department and The Australian has reported that the boy was taken from people who were […]
Vulnerable Kids Deserve Better
CREATE Foundation, Australia’s peak consumer body representing the voices of children and young people with a care experience, echoes concerns raised in the recent article published in The Sydney Morning Herald on September 10, 2023. For too long we’ve accepted the lack of placement options in family based care and are turning a blind eye […]
ADULT WATCH HOUSES ARE NO PLACE FOR PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS SAYS CREATE FOUNDATION
In a disgraceful move last week the Queensland Government passed legislative amendments to override its own Human Rights Act 2019 to allow children as young as 10 to be detained in police watch houses and for adult prisons to be used as youth detention centres. Last month, Queensland Government was ordered by the courts to […]
