CAFFSA Policy and Advocacy Platform
A Way Forward 2021 – 2025
CAFFSA is a well-known South Australian peak body amongst its membership base. In guiding the policy and advocacy work of the organisation, CAFFSA refers to this Policy and Advocacy Platform to identify those issues that we have the expertise and experience to speak to and to influence.
The five areas of CAFFSA’s policy and advocacy focus are:
- Children and Young People
- Families
- Community
- Services/Sector
- Government and System
Read the full version of the CAFFSA Policy and Advocacy Platform: CAFFSA POLICY PLATFORM REFRESH
CAFFSA Attended and Represented Meetings
SACOSS Policy Council
The SACOSS Policy Council is nominated from SACOSS’s membership. Its aims are to develop policies relevant to the sector as well as to help plan and develop key areas of social policy development. Policy Council members hold office for two year terms and are elected in different categories, as set out in the SACOSS Constitution.
Carer Recruitment and Retention Taskforce
Conviened by DCP in May 2011, the Carer Recruitment and Retention Taskforce has been formed to:
- Aspire to achieve equal to or better than the national figure (93.1% at 30 June 2018) for percentage of children in out of home care who are in a family-based care placement
− 30 June 2018 85 per cent of children in family based care in SA
− 30 June 2020 90 per cent of children in family based care in SA - Increase family based care by an additional 300 carers by the end of 2020
- Increase the retention of carers and decrease the factors that impact on carer retention
- Ensure effective communication of the activities and outcomes undertaken by the Taskforce and working groups to improve family based care for children and young
people
Care Concerns Assessment Panel
Care Concern Assessment Panel (CCAP)
CAFFSA is represented on DCP’s CCAP which meets weekly and also considers out-of-session care concerns on a case-by-case basis.
A care concern referral (CCR) occurs when a child or young person who is in out of home care is allegedly abused or neglected or is at significant risk of being abused or neglected; or there is allegedly a deficit in the standard of care provided to the child; and the concerns relate to the care provided by a DCP employee or volunteer, an out-of-home care employee or volunteer, a foster carer, a kinship carer, a specific child only carer, family day care (guardianship) carers or agency carers.
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