SNAICC BRIEFING/POLICY PAPERS
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in PDF or viewed as an html version where available)
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October 2007
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Election
2007
SNAICC Submission to
NT Board of Inquiry into sexual abuse of Aboriginal children 2007
SNAICC has recommended
a major overhaul of the child protection system within the Northern
Territory. Get more details and download SNAICC's detailed submission
to the Inquiry here:
SNAICC
Submission to NT Inquiry March 2007
SNAICC Draft Policy Statement
- Developing an effective child well-being and protection system
and the SNAICC Values Statement for Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander children.
your feedback invited
SNAICC invites you to
provide comment and feedback on two draft SNAICC policy documents:
Key Commitments Political
Parties Must Make to Support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Children (October 2006)
This is a summary of
the pre-election briefing paper prepared by SNAICC to inform the
policy work of all the major political parties in federal parliament.
Key
Commitments for Political Parties to Make (html version)
This summary was originally
published in the November 2006
edition of SNAICC News.
Read the report
of the SNAICC Lobby Trip to Canberra (last October)
when this Briefing Paper was put forward.
Family Violence and Child
Abuse Resource Page (May 2006)
The SNAICC Resource Service
(SRS) prepared this page of resources
and information available online to assist those developing responses
to family violence, sexual assault and child abuse and neglect in
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
This was part of SNAICC's
response to the media
attention on child abuse in Central Australia in May 2006.
Family
Violence and Child Abuse Resource Page
Development of a National
Action Plan for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
to prevent and respond to child abuse and neglect (May 2006)
SNAICC prepared this
briefing for all State and Territory Premiers and Chief Ministers
on the need for a national approach to dealing with child abuse
and neglect ahead of the National Summit of Australian government
ministers on violence in Indigenous communities held in June 2006.
Development
of a National Action Plan (100 KB)
Achieving Stable and
Culturally Strong Out of Home Care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Children (2005)
This paper outlines SNAICC's
approach to achieving stable and culturally strong out of home care
for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children that ensures
their continuing family and cultural connections.
This paper has now been
published in print and online, and can be downloaded electronically
from the Publications page of our website here.
Seven Priorities for
Indigenous Children
Briefing paper outlining
SNAICC's seven major priorities for governments to address for Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander children. Paper was presented to political
parties and governments in the lead up to the 2002 Federal Election.
Seven
priorities for children
Child Protection Data
SNAICC has prepared same
data sheets on the child protection system for each State and Territory.
The sheets include information on the numbers of Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander children removed from home due to substantiated
abuse or neglect and information on how many of these children are
placed with Indigenous carers.
National
data summary
ACT
child protection data
NT
child protection data
NSW
child protection data
QLD
child protection data
SA
child protection data
TAS
child protection data
VIC
child protection data
WA
child protection data
ATSIC Reform
SNAICC paper on the reform
of ATSIC as provided to the 2004 Senate Inquiry.
ATSIC
reform submission
Victorian Government
Child Protection Outcomes Report
Submission provided by
SNAICC to the Victorian Government on the review of child protection.
(Feburary 2004) Vic
- child protection outcomes
Reform of Child Care
- Broadband Redevelopment.
Paper outlining SNAICC's
response to the redevelopment of Commonwealth child care support
programs.
(April 2003)
SNAICC
paper: Broadband Redevelopment
Child Abuse and Neglect within Indigenous communities.
Paper provided to the
Australia Council on Children and Parenting, ACCAP, on options and
priorities for reforming approaches to the prevention of child abuse
and neglect.
Child Abuse and Neglect - Options for Reform
Improving access to child
care.
Paper provided to the
Childcare Reference Group and Commonwealth Government on the childcare
needs of Indigenous families. (Dec 2002)
Childcare
for Indigenous Families
Indigenous Families Data
Indigenous
Families socio-economic data
Statistics on Violence/Child
Abuse
Indigenous
Family Violence, Child Abuse and Child Neglect
Updated May 2007
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