As part of the Supporting Families Changing Futures reforms, the Queensland Government announced an intention to develop and implement an action plan for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families experiencing vulnerability, by the end of 2016. As an immediate commitment, Queensland Government supported Family Matters Queensland Leadership Group to approach decision makers to gain commitment to both the process of developing and implementing effective responses to family strengthening and children’s wellbeing. This commitment is progressed under the banner of Family Matters – a national campaign to change child protection systems that seeks to embed greater self-determination, and uses four building blocks through which to address the overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care. The following document provides a report on the Queensland approach, led by the Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Protection Peak (QATSICPP) and in partnership with state government, who brought together key decision makers at a forum of over 70 registrants in Brisbane on the 4 & 5 August 2016.
QATSICPP
Child Protection Peak
