Strengthen for their strengthen Facilitate Responses to Child access to children stability and Sexual early and other Abuse and childhood outcomes levels of initiatives other education for children driving reviews and care, in care and better domestic post-care outcomes Take a and family for continuous Strengthen violence, children, access to drug and young alcohol, people and approach to improve health and families education, the mental health, health, disability & and disability well-being and of the services housing system for children services in care for families Improve at risk information Extend and sharing broaden across support for agencies young and people from care, especially to housing, further education, training and and other supports Governments and Our way All families enjoy Aboriginal and Law, policy and access to Torres Strait practice in child and community quality, culturally Islander peoples family welfare are services are safe universal and organisations culturally safe and accountable to and targeted participate in and responsive Aboriginal and services have control over Torres Strait necessary for decisions that Islander peoples Aboriginal and affect their children Torres Strait Islander children to thrive Our Future Give all our Create jobs Keep Keep Be a State: children a in a strong communities Queenslanders responsive Advancing great start economy safe healthy government Queensland’s Priorities © The State of Queensland (Department of Child Safety, Youth and Women) 2018
Strengthen access to early childhood education and care, domestic and family violence, drug and alcohol, health and mental health, disability and housing services for families at risk for their children strengthen stability and outcomes for children in care and post-care Strengthen access to education, health, disability & well-being services for children in care Extend and broaden support for young people from care, especially to housing, further education, training and and other supports and other levels of Facilitate initiatives driving better outcomes for children, young people and families Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and other reviews Take a continuous approach to improve the and of the system Improve information sharing across agencies and Our way All families enjoy access to quality, culturally safe universal and targeted services necessary for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children to thrive Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and organisations participate in and have control over decisions that affect their children Law, policy and practice in child and family welfare are culturally safe and responsive Governments and community services are accountable to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples Our Future State: Advancing Queensland’s Priorities Give all our children a great start Create jobs in a strong economy Keep communities safe Keep Queenslanders healthy Be a responsive government © The State of Queensland (Department of Child Safety, Youth and Women) 2018
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