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Central Australia Aboriginal Community-Controlled Out-of-home Care Strategy Steering Committee outlines next steps

Over the last 18 months SNAICC has been facilitating consultations with Aboriginal communities and representatives of the community-controlled service sector in Central Australia. A local steering committee was convened with a focus on consultations to inform the creation of the Central Australia Aboriginal Community-Controlled Out-of-home Care Strategy (the Strategy), including meetings with leaders of community-controlled […]

Media Release 3 April 2019 – Lacklustre federal budget unlikely to provide required change for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children

Media Release 3 April 2019 – Lacklustre federal budget unlikely to provide required change for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are invisible yet again in a federal budget that includes no significant investments to address the long-standing issues faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. The Federal […]

Federal election priorities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children

Federal election priorities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children The majority of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children grow up in supportive, loving and positive environments, connected to their families, communities and cultures. However, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families continue to experience significantly higher levels of disadvantage than non-Indigenous families. Current efforts are […]

Media Release 29 March 2019 – Morrison Government must scrap ParentsNext and stop making women’s lives harder

Media Release 29 March 2019 – Morrison Government must scrap ParentsNext and stop making women’s lives harder The Morrison Government cannot delay scrapping its discriminatory ParentsNext program, with a Senate Inquiry finding that the program is causing “anxiety, distress and harm” for many parents, including for women escaping violence. The findings of a Senate Inquiry […]

Media Release 27 March 2019 – SNAICC to provide voice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children through new Closing the Gap Joint Council

Media Release 27 March 2019 – SNAICC to provide voice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children through new Closing the Gap Joint Council SNAICC – National Voice for our Children, the national peak body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, will play a vital role in progressing the rights of children over the […]

Media Release 26 March 2019 – Cashless welfare card will not increase safety for Aboriginal children in the NT

Media Release 26 March 2019 – Cashless welfare card will not increase safety for Aboriginal children in the NT Aboriginal children will be worse off under the proposed Federal Government expansion of the cashless welfare card in the Northern Territory, according to the national peak body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. SNAICC – […]

Progress of the Child Placement Principle across Australia through baseline analyses

For the very first time, SNAICC, with input from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-controlled organisations along with state and territory governments, has conducted baseline analyses of the progress of all states and territories in implementing the full intent of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle (ATSICPP). These documents will be useful […]

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