Commission for Children and Young People Victoria

📽 Watch online: Community of Practice recordings Recordings of the presentations from our most recent Community of Practice are available on our website. The presentations focus on Child Safe Standard 1 and creating culturally safe environments for Aboriginal children and young people. Some of the topics covered include: ◾ Experiences of racism and the importance of cultural safety ◾ Breaking down the barriers to cultural safety ◾ Addressing organisational paralysis ◾ A practical approach towards organisational change Find all the recordings on our website: https://lnkd.in/gCis-5mP To keep up to date with our future events, sign-up to our email list: https://lnkd.in/dW6cff8v

📢 Commissioner Liana Buchanan will be joining child safety leaders from around Australia at the upcoming summit on children and young people at risk. 📝 Find more information and register here: https://lnkd.in/gugR-Ahk

Last week the Children's Policy Centre held our first Conversation with Children's Commissioners series of 2024. Our centre director, Sharon Bessell, facilitated a truly powerful conversation with Principal Commissioner for Children and Young people Victoria Liana Buchanan, alongside Ruby Sait and Amelia Hunt from the Commission Youth Council. We thank them for giving us their time and sharing with us their experiences, ideas and hopes for change. Thank you to all who attended, and for those of you who couldn't make it, the recording is now available! Keep on eye on our LinkedIn page, website and sign up to our newsletter for more updates on this series. Sharon Bessell Cadhla O’Sullivan Crawford School of Public Policy ANU College of Asia & the Pacific The Australian National University https://lnkd.in/g4mp__iq

"We tolerate standards of care for these children that we would never accept in our own families, or homes, or streets." Thanks to Castan Centre for Human Rights Law and Radio National's Big Ideas for sharing these speeches on out of home care by Amelia Hunt' and I. Together I think these convey the scale of change needed in our care system and the clear reminder that the path to real change lies in listening to lived expertise and empowering young people like Amelia to shape reform.

💡 Tune into ABC Radio National this afternoon to hear Liana Buchanan and Amelia Hunt speak about the rights of children and young people in out-of-home care. This session is a recording of Liana and Amelia's presentation at the annual Human Rights Law Conference. 📽 You can also watch recordings of the sessions here: https://lnkd.in/gcHNQspj 🔊 Listen to the recording here: https://lnkd.in/g5upnvJu Castan Centre for Human Rights Law

The Children's Policy Centre is delighted to announce that 'Conversations with Children's Commissioners' webinars are back!   Join the systemic inquiry into the educational experiences of children and young people in out-of-home care, hosted on Wednesday 25 September for their first conversation of 2024.   Liana Buchanan, Commissioner for Children and Young People, Victoria will be alongside Commission Youth Council members Amelia Hunt and Ruby Sait to discuss the findings of the systematic inquiry into the educational experiences of children and young people in out-of-home care.   Register here: https://lnkd.in/g-CVr-8A   Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/e_uJeauV   #childrenspolicy #education

Our commissioners have joined the Home Time #MeAt16 Social Media Day of Action. "At 16 I'd been through some stuff, but I had never had to worry about whether I'd have somewhere to sleep at night. Every child and young person deserves a safe home - and the fact is not all children and young people can get that with family" - Liana Buchanan "I'm sure at 16 I thought I had all the world's dramas on my doorstep. But I never, once, had to worry about a roof over my head, or where my next meal might come from. No child should have to worry about these things. We need everyone to raise their voices so that all children and young people have a safe, secure home." - Meena Singh Learn more and join the Home Time campaign here: https://lnkd.in/dMBM47R6 #FixHousingForYoungPeople #HomeTime

“It takes a team to raise a child”. 🦸♀️ And a huge part of these teams are the incredible people in the child and family services sector and community 🦸♂️ Here are just some of the brilliant winners at the 2024 Victorian Protecting Children Awards: ⭐Sue Sealey, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Anglicare Victoria 🏆 Winner of the Robin Clark Leadership Award. ⭐Fiona Poon, Deputy Area Operations Manager, DFFH 🏆 Winner of the Chief Practitioner’s Award. ⭐Miracle Papa, Community Connector in the Putting Families First team 🏆Joint winner of the Robin Clark Making a Difference Award. The team includes staff from OzChild, VACCA - Victorian Aboriginal Child and Community Agency, Australian African Foundation for Retention and Opportunity (AAFRO), Youth Support Advocacy Service & Charis Mentoring (AU NZ). To see the full list of winners visit: https://lnkd.in/gqbhADX9 👀Watch the full version of the video on our YouTube channel. #VPCA

We’re calling for people who work or volunteer in organisations covered by the Reportable Conduct Scheme and/or the Child Safe Standards to take part in a short survey on grooming behaviours. The survey is part of a research project run by Griffith University, to better understand grooming behaviours and how we identify them in organisations. The survey is anonymous and should only take 20 minutes to complete. The results will help us better understand what behaviours are recognised as grooming, so we can support organisations to keep children and young people safe from abuse. Find out more and start the survey: https://lnkd.in/ge6tGA9c

National Foster Care Week is a time to acknowledge the incredible foster carers who give safe homes to children and young people right across Victoria.   It’s also an important reminder of the need to adequately support our carers, including by increasing care allowance payments for kinship and foster carers.   You can learn more about this and other recommendations to support carers to do their very best for children in our inquiry report: https://lnkd.in/gq2geUCu