Agencies, carers and representatives from the Department of Children, Youth Justice and Multicultural Affairs participated in a forum yesterday to discuss the Queensland Government’s latest push for kinship care.
The forum discussed ways to best move to kinship care which allows for friends and extended family members to care for the child.
The director of youth and family support group PeakCare, Lindsay Wegener, said it is important children remain safely within their family or kinship structure when possible, especially for Indigenous children.
The Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Protection Peak (QATSICPP) shared their "family caring for family" model with the forum, which was inspired by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kinship structures.