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Date: Tuesday 22 October 2024
Time: 3.00-5.00pm
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About the Survey
The Victorian Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Service is a free health service available for all Victorian families with children from birth to school age. The Department of Health is inviting families, carers and parents across Victoria to participate in a statewide
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Help Us Make a Difference!
As the end of the financial year approaches, we kindly ask for your continued support to help PCA Families fulfil our purpose: empowering families to provide stable, permanent homes for children and young people who cannot live with their birth families. 
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Carers are already volunteering their hearts and homes to provide care to young people who need them and the allowance rate is falling in real value by the month, forcing carers to pay out of pocket on essentials
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One Sunday two and a half years ago, Chris and Mel Mury were driving back home to the Hunter Valley with their three children after attending a family funeral in Canberra. Halfway through the trip their eldest son Charlie, who lives with severe autism and is non-verbal, started bashing his head
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The Commission has released additional resources to help organisations to meet the Child Safe Standards.
The new resources provide guidance in plain English to help a broad range of people in organisations and the community to understand the Standards, and what actions are required for
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Victoria’s base carer allowance for level 1 (age group 0-7) is the lowest of any state/territory in the table (see summary below in Table 1) Victoria’s first age payment range is widest of any jurisdiction (0-7). This means that Victorian carers have to wait until a child turns 8 before they get an
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I’m pleased to advise you on the key investments for child protection and family services in the 2023/24 Victorian Budget, announced by the Treasurer on Tuesday 23 May 2023.
Firstly, I would like to
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As a carer you play such an important part in keeping the child in your home safe and giving them opportunity to thrive. Carer KaFÉ are committed to ensuring our carers are informed, supported, valued, and respected. Through the transition of Carer KaFÉ we are continuing to
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PCA Families commissioned a review of the current state of permanent care and adoption in Victoria to understand:
Why children in out-of-home care are not moving to stable, permanent arrangements in a timely manner when they are unable to be re-unified with birth parents; The consequences for Read...
PCA Families acknowledges the First Nations peoples of all Country throughout Australia. We are grateful for continued connections to lands, waters, seas and communities. We pay respect to Elders past and present as we express our intention to move together to a place of justice and partnership. We acknowledge sovereignty has never been ceded and Australia was, and always will be, Aboriginal lands.
PCA Families has a zero tolerance of child abuse and we are committed to establishing and maintaining child safe environments.
