Keep Them Safe

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• Keep Them Safe
• Implementation
• Department of Premier and Cabinet

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Keep Them Safe

• A Five Year Action Plan
• Responding to 2008 Wood Inquiry into child
  protection system
• Reshaping services for children, young people
  their families
• Sharing responsibility across the community
• Providing more support earlier

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Government Response

• Key principals underpinning Government response
• Shared responsibility across Government and the
  NGO sector
• Integrated system that supports vulnerable
  children, young people and families earlier
• Alternative pathways for less serious cases
• Where statutory intervention needed to protect
  children improve response of government and
  courts
• Addressing over-representation of Aboriginal
  children in the child protection system and
  increased involvement of Aboriginal communities
  in decision-making

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Government Response

• Broadening responsibility for child protection

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Government Response

• Key Changes Mandatory Reporting
• Increased reporting threshold - Risk of
  Significant Harm (ROSH)
• Removal of punitive measures for not reporting
• Online Mandatory Reporter Guide
• Decision making structure
• Online system
• Produces a recommendation for action and report
• Integrated into government agency systems and
  processes
• Available to the general public
• Available in hardcopy

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Government Response

• Key Changes Information Sharing
• Significant change to include new Chapter 16A
  into Children and Young Persons (Care and
  protection) Act 1998
• Enables prescribed bodies to share information
  about a child or family in specific circumstances
• Prescribed bodies may include
• Government departments
• Schools
• Hospitals
• NGOs working with children, young people and
  families
• Children's Services

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KTS Implementation
NSW Government KTS Action Plan and Structure
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KTS Implementation

• Department of Premier and Cabinet
• KTS Implementation Unit
• 11 KTS Regional Project Managers
• Central Coast
• Hunter
• Illawarra
• South East NSW
• New England North West
• North Coast
• Western (Wagga Wagga and Dubbo)
• South West Sydney
• Western Sydney
• Coastal Sydney
• Family Case Management Pilot
• South East NSW
• Western (Wagga Wagga and Dubbo)

North Coast
WesternSydney
New England North West
Hunter
Central Coast
Western (Wagga Wagga)
CoastalSydney
Illawarra
SE NSW
South WestSydney
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KTS Implementation

• New Agency Structures
• Health
• Child Wellbeing Unit
• Child Wellbeing Coordinators
• OOHC Coordinators
• KTS Unit
• Family Referral Service Pilot
• Human Services
• Child Wellbeing Unit
• KTS Unit

• Education and Training
• Child Wellbeing Unit
• KTS Unit
• OOHC Coordinators
• Police
• Child Wellbeing Unit

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KTS Implementation

• KTS Budget

• 2010/11 the overall 5 year KTS budget is 765
  million after taking into account
  indexation from the 750 million 2009/10 figures
• 40 of the overall budget will go to the NGO
  sector

Initiative Area M
Prevention, Early Intervention and Placement Prevention services 147.5
Improving services for Aboriginal CYP 32.7
Changes to the child protection system 229.0
Increasing investment in acute system 73.2
Out-of-home care 282.6
Total 765.0
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KTS Implementation

• KTS Training
• TAFE
• Phase 1 Introduction
• Phase 2 Mandatory Reporter
• Phase 2 General KTS
• Phase 2 Childrens Services
• CCWT
• Phase 2 Mandatory Reporter Training NGOs
• Online (www.keepthemsafe.nsw.gov.au)
• Online training package
• Trainers manual and Participants handbook
• Fact Sheets
• FAQs

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KTS Implementation

• Working with the NGO Sector
• Workforce Development and Capacity Building Plan
• Consultation and Plan Developed by KPMG
• Work led by ADHC and DPC
• Currently in final approval stage
• Eight Justice and Human Services Regional
  Managers Clusters
• Develop KTS Regional Project Managers Workplan
• Local NGO engagement
• Child Protection Advisory Group (CPAG)
• Key forum for NGO Peaks involvement with KTS SOG

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Regional Project Manager Keep Them Safe
KTS Deliverables Tasks
Regional Engagement and Communication Network development with NGOs, Local Councils and Government agencies Communication Strategy
Supporting Effective Networks Supporting SWS Regional Peaks, networks and Interagencies
Identify and Support Cluster Strategic Cluster Priorities NGO Engagement
Identify Gaps in KTS Implementation NGO Government Service Delivery Workforce capacity Development
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• For Further Information
• KTS/Centrelink Interface Community Services
  Regional Director
• Consult your legal services branch
• Keep Them Safe website www.keepthemsafe.nsw.gov.a
  u
• HSNet ServiceLink www.hsnet.nsw.gov.au
• Association of Children's Welfare Agencies
  www.acwa.asn.au
• For South West Sydney stakeholders Mathew
  Ferguson South West Sydney KTS Regional Project
  Manager, Department of Premier Cabinet,
  Regional Coordination Program
• Phone [phone]
• Email mathew.ferguson_at_dpc.nsw.gov.au