The Children in Care CollectiveWe are always better together than we are apart
The Children in Care Collective is an interagency think-tank formed in 2016 to share experience, discuss best practice, provide advocacy and learn from researchers and policy experts in out of home care. The Collective meets regularly and has agreed on priority practice areas to be discussed at these meetings. The group has identified a series of practice topics to focus on.
The Collective has chosen to focus on a set of specific priorities in order to genuinely increase agency capability beyond anything that could be achieved as an individual agency.
Latest news
26 June 2020
The Children in Care Collective commissioned the CREATE Foundation in early 2020 to assist in developing and running a youth forum with children and young people in the care of Collective agencies, focusing on health and wellbeing. The first step was a survey of children and young people to ensure that their views informed the issues and discussion at the forum. While the forum has been postponed, CREATE’s report on its findings from this survey provides a useful and interesting insight into what is important to children and young people in care and what creates concern when they are thinking about their health and wellbeing.
19 December 2019
The CCC is pleased to share the results of its discussions with the Australian Tax Office on acceptable non-taxable allowances that may be paid to carers of children with complex needs.
The DetailsSee exactly what we aim to achieve.
Build
We aim to build the capacity of the agencies involved in the Collective
Partner
We aim to adopt a partnership relationship with funding bodies/regulators
Advocate
We aim to create a positive voice as one Collective which establishes the group as a ‘go to’ group that advocates for the policy issues that impact young people in out of home care with complex needs
