Page 1337 - Week 04 - Thursday, 12 April 2018
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harm, compliance, and family assessments, with an average of 78 staff completing each program. This equates to 2,497 instances of training course completion and is in addition to the trauma-informed practice training described in the baseline report.
The baseline report provides an opportunity to demonstrate the early progress that is being made towards achieving the strategy’s outcomes and the successful implementation of key elements of the strategy. Importantly, the report also offers transparency in the process of building an evaluation framework and demonstrates the ACT government’s commitment to the measurement of long-term outcomes. Over the next six months KPMG will work with CSD and its partner agencies to review and rationalise the number of measures to enable improved reporting against the outcomes and develop the mid-strategy evaluation report by late October this year.
I would like to finish by assuring members that considerable data is being captured as part of the evaluation framework for A step up for our kids, which will provide a rich source of information that is pivotal to the ongoing transformation of the out of home care system, and I look forward to sharing this progress with the Assembly in future reports.
Finally, as I often do when speaking about child protection in this place, I take this opportunity to acknowledge the front-line child protection workers, who do very difficult and complex work with some of the most vulnerable families in our community. Workers in CYPS, ACT Together, Uniting and their partner agencies are helping to deliver a major reform while also responding to individual families, children and young people who are often in crisis or otherwise experiencing incredibly difficult circumstances. Their work ensures that the ACT’s most vulnerable children and young people have the chance of a good childhood, not one marked by fear, deprivation and insecurity. Their aim is to see these children and young people become happy and healthy adults. On behalf of all Canberrans, I thank them for their commitment to this important work.
I present the following papers:
Out of Home Care Strategy 2015-2020—A Step Up for Our Kids—One Step Can Make a Lifetime of Difference—Update—April 2018—Ministerial statement, 12 April 2018.
A Step Up for Our Kids—Snapshot Report.
I move:
That the Assembly take note of the papers.
MS LE COUTEUR (Murrumbidgee) (10.34): Very briefly, I wish to thank the minister for this strategy and report. I note the incredible importance of connecting this with other parts of the government’s work—in particular, the work that Minister Berry talked about beforehand, on domestic and family violence. Also, particularly, the carer’s strategy is something which clearly needs adequate resourcing to meet its objectives. I thank you for the report.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
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