QATSICPP submission to Community Safety Bill 2024 The Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Protection Peak (QATSICPP) is the newly announced youth justice peak body for Queensland. As Queensland’s Youth Justice peak, along with our 38 members and strategic partnerships, we will focus on creating safer communities by building strengthened partnerships with government, service…
QATSICPP Statement 2 May 2024 Queensland Government Community Safety Plan QATSICPP welcomes the Community Safety Plan launched by the Queensland Government this week. We support efforts focused on creating safer communities, reducing youth offending and delivering justice and services to victims of crime. We particularly welcome the announcement to appoint an Aboriginal and Torres Strait…
QATSICPP recently made a submission to the development of Queensland Trauma Strategy. The Queensland Mental Health Commission is leading the development of the strategy, which is focused on the prevention of trauma, improving the supports provided to people who have experienced trauma (and their families and friends), and reducing the long term impact on individuals…
On the 6&7th of March 2024 Member Organisations were bought together by the QATSICPP Delegated Authority Team to learn, listen, and further explore the reclamation of self-determination in the form of Delegated Authority (DA). The 2 days consisted of QATSICPP DA Manager, Tamara Creamer, and Team, workshopping live system-build of the process and practice components…
This infographic has been developed by drawing together relevant publicly available data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare about our children’s involvement with different parts of the child protection system; from investigations through to placement in out-of-home care. The intention of the infographic is to highlight key data insights and trends in the…
On September 25th over 40 representatives from QATSICPP member organisations and other community controlled providers across the state came together in Meanjin Brisbane for the QATSICPP Residential Care Forum. The purpose of the forum was to boldly reimagine how we could support our families experiencing vulnerability with the aim of driving down the numbers of…
QATSICPP Statement Friday 25 August 2023 Recent legislation introduced to Queensland Parliament re: detaining children in adult watch houses and correctional facilities Yesterday the Queensland Government passed legislative amendments overriding Queensland’s Human Rights Act 2019 (Qld) (the Act) which allows police watch houses and adult prisons to be used as youth detention centres. This is…
170+ Sector staff join QATSICPP’s first Knowledge Bites webinar At lunchtime on Thursday 18 May 2023, QATSICPP was honoured to host our first Knowledge Bites webinar in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service (ATSILS). The Knowledge Bites webinar series is designed to help increase Sector knowledge about key topics, to aid in…
Release of our 2022 Members’ Conference and Awards report QATSICPP is pleased to release our wrap up report for the 2022 QATSICPP Members’ Conference and Awards, held in Brisbane on 1 and 2 December. Revisit the knowledge shared by inspiring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders, and deadly practice examples shared by QATSICPP Member organisations.…
Active Efforts Guide QATSICPP is proud to release Active Efforts in Practice – a guide to assist practitioners working with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander children and families across the child and family wellbeing space. Changes to the Child Protection Act will come into effect in May 2023 which include a requirement for the Aboriginal…
