February Advocacy Wrap Up

February Advocacy Wrap Up

CREATE’s monthly Advocacy Wrap Ups provide regular updates on our latest advocacy for improving the lives of children and young people with an out-of-home care experience. Our Wrap Ups include: CREATE’s latest submissions on issues including youth justice, residential care, housing and more. Media releases and statements about current issues affecting children and young people in […]

January Advocacy Wrap Up

January Advocacy Wrap Up

CREATE’s monthly Advocacy Wrap Ups provide regular updates on our latest advocacy for improving the lives of children and young people with an out-of-home care experience. Our Wrap Ups include: CREATE’s latest submissions on issues including youth justice, residential care, housing and more. Media releases and statements about current issues affecting children and young people in […]

December Advocacy Wrap Up

December Advocacy Wrap Up

Tasmanian Government releases Youth Justice Blueprint 2024-2034 CREATE Foundation was pleased to see that the Tasmanian Government’s Youth Justice Blueprint 2024-2034 includes a commitment to both raising the age of criminal responsibility to 14 years without exceptions, and raising the age of criminal detention to 16 years. Importantly the Government has also committed to significant investment in therapeutic […]

November Advocacy Wrap-Up

Children and Young People Amendment Bill 2023 passed in the ACT   CREATE welcomes the passage of the Children and Young People Amendment Bill 2023. The Bill is a key step towards fully embedding the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle into legislation and as such implementing a key recommendation of the Our Booris, Our Way review. […]

October Advocacy Wrap-Up

Minister for Children appointed in Victoria   CREATE welcomed the announcement earlier this month that Minister Blandthorn would become Victoria’s first Minister for Children in Premier Jacinta Allan’s new cabinet. The new portfolio will take on the Best Start, Best Life early childhood education reforms as well as continuing to drive improvements to Victoria’s child protection system in […]

September Advocacy Wrap Up

Update on the Queensland Residential Care Review CREATE  participated in the Ministerial Roundtable to inform the Review of the Queensland Residential Care System on 28 September in Brisbane. The Roundtable was hosted by the Hon Craig Crawford MP, Minister for Child Protection and Principal Commissioner, Luke Twyford. Four CREATE young consultants attended the Roundtable to […]

August Advocacy Wrap Up

Australia’s Youth Engagement Strategy   CREATE recently provided a submission to the Office for Youth on Australia’s Youth Engagement Strategy. Our submission urged the Office for Youth to embed additional processes that truly harness the voices of young people, especially those with a care experience as partners and leaders. We also highlighted the need for reform to:   better […]

July Advocacy Wrap-up

July has been another busy month for CREATE’s Advocacy team, with a number of submissions to government and the commencement of this year’s annual consultations across Australia.   Inquiry into the worsening rental crisis in Australia  CREATE recently provided a submission to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee Inquiry into the worsening rental crisis in Australia. We strongly advocated […]

June Advocacy Wrap up

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare released its Child Protection Australia Report for 2021-2022.   Key data in relation to out-of-home-care includes:       Nationally, as at 30 June 2022:  45,400 children were in out-of-home care.  19,400 were Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children (57 per 1,000 Indigenous children).  Around 90% of children were in home-based […]