Page 1851 - Week 06 - Thursday, 30 July 2020
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The workshop was facilitated by experienced Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander consultants and brought together key Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community leaders and service providers, as well as members of the community with lived experience of a range of human services, including Child and Youth Protection Services.
CSD formally enacted the policy position in January 2020, and its implementation has reinforced the long-standing practice of not supporting adoption for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. The policy is provided at Attachment A.
(A copy of the attachment is available at the Chamber Support Office).
Children and young people—respite care
(Question No 3059)
Mrs Kikkert asked the Minister for Children, Youth and Families, upon notice, on 19 June 2020:
(1) In relation to respite care in the context of foster care and kinship care, given respite care provides short periods of alternative care for a child from their existing care arrangement, either through regular, ongoing, planned occasions or in response to an emergency, what is the longest length of time that a child or young person may be in respite care.
(2) Is it possible for a child to be in respite care for multiple weeks or even multiple months in one go; if so, in what circumstances might this occur.
(3) If a child is in respite care for a longer period of time, is it typically with a single respite carer, or might it involve more than one.
(4) If a child is in respite care for a longer period of time with more than one respite carer, what is the largest number of respite carers that a child has been placed with sequentially during a single period of respite.
(5) Given that respite care provides carers with breaks from daily demands or helps them cope with unforeseen circumstances, such as illness, is respite care used in any other circumstances; if so, what are they.
(6) Is respite care ever used to provide temporary care to a child whilst a placement decision undergoes reassessment.
Ms Stephen-Smith: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:
1. Respite care is a case management practice that typically provides short periods of alternative care for a child or young person from their existing care arrangement. This occurs either through regular ongoing planned occasions of respite or in response to an emergency involving the child or young person’s existing carer.
Respite care is not defined by a timeframe and is considered on a case by case basis and in response to the individual needs of carers and the children in their care.
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