19 November 2014 | General Interest In case you haven’t already noticed, SNAICC has a brand new website.  The new website has a deadly new design and more importantly will make travelling through the site easier and faster. New features of site include a state-of-the-art resource shop to purchase all your SNAICC resource, a new […]

19 November 2014 | General Interest The SNAICC Training Team has been out and about in force over the last few weeks, connecting with communities across Australia, delivering workshops based on exciting new SNAICC resources. The first workshop for our family violence research and best practice package — Safe for Our Kids — was launched […]

19 November 2014 | BLOG: Child Protection SNAICC is proud to release “Safe for our Kids: A guide to family violence response and prevention for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families” (the Guide). While there is evidence of the importance of local solutions to prevent and to respond to family violence, there is […]

19 November 2014 | BLOG: Family and Community Support SNAICC has written a new paper that explores the strengths of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parenting.  The paper – written in partnership with the Australian Institute of Family Studies – was produced after spending time listening to communities around the country. The evidence provided in […]

17 November 2014 | General Interest SNAICC has released a final report on the Western Australian consultations under its national initiative to reduce the alarming and soaring number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care. SNAICC’s Family Matters, Kids safe in culture, not in care hosted a public forum on the over-representation […]

13 November 2014 | BLOG: Early Childhood The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) established a review of the National Quality Framework (NQF) in 2014 to assess if the agenda to improve the quality of child care services has been achieved and to address any problems that have emerged since its implementation. On November 7 COAG […]

12 November 2014 | General Interest The Senate Committee inquiring into Grandparents who take primary responsibility for raising their grandchildren has released a number of recommendations pertaining to the needs of grandparents and grandchildren who live in these formal or informal care arrangements. The 18 recommendations have been developed following extensive public consultation, and can […]