Sector Representation
Child and Family Focus SA (CAFFSA) amplifies the voices of children, young people, and families involved in the family support and child protection sectors. We support and represent the not-for-profit organisations dedicated to protecting and nurturing children, young people, families and caregivers in our community.
Get in Touch
0473 617 782
info@childandfamily-sa.org.au
Amplifying Voices
We give voice to children, young people, and families who need it most.
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.
Care Concerns Assessment Panel
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% of children in family based care in SA
− 30 June 2020 90% 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
Carer Recruitment and Retention Taskforce
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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Child and Family Focus SA (CAFFSA) amplifies the voices of children, young people, and families involved in the family support and child protection sectors. We support and represent the not-for-profit organisations dedicated to protecting and nurturing children, young people, families and caregivers in our community.
Child and Family Focus SA
C/- 45 Wakefield St, Adelaide 5000
0473 617 782
‘Reconciliation’ Artwork by Kobe and Hamish Collins Commissioned by CAFFSA 2024.
Emergency Contacts
- Child Abuse Report Line (CARL) – 131 478
- DCP Central Complaints Unit – 1800 003 305
- Crisis Care – 13 16 11
- Office of the Guardian for Children and Young People – 1800 275 664
- Domestic Violence Crisis Line – 1800 800 098
- Mental Health Triage – 13 14 65
Our Committment
CAFFSA is committed to seeking and receiving formal and informal feedback (compliments, comments, and complaints) about its services, systems, practices, procedures, products and complaint handling.
You can submit your feedback HERE.
Our Policies
Need to understand more about these policies? Don’t hesitate to give us a call on 0473 617 782.
Child and Family Focus SA acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work, the Kaurna and pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty has never been ceded and this was and always will be Aboriginal land.
We appreciate and celebrate diversity in all its forms. We believe diversity of all kinds makes our teams, services, organisations and communities stronger and more effective.