Thank you CREATE Volunteers! |
Support for National Children's Commissioner |
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For more information on National Volunteer Week or to register to volunteer on behalf of CREATE check out the website www.govolunteer.com.au.
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CREATE Foundation welcomes the recent move from the Australian Government to introduce a National Children’s Commissioner. The appointment of a Commissioner is a key action listed in the National Framework for Protecting Australian Children 2009-2020. The Government has committed to establishing the office before the end of 2012. CREATE Foundation CEO, Jacqui Reed, highlighted the importance of consulting with children and young people in determining the role and functions of the
National Children’s Commissioner.
“Meaningful consultation with children and young people is not only a responsibility of the National Children’s Commissioner, but it is both timely and of paramount importance that the children and young people who the system is designed to care for have a say in the development of the legislation and policies that underpin the role,” stated Ms Reed.
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CREATE Your Future Grant Scheme |
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Are you aged 15 - 25? CREATE could grant you between $250 & $3000 towards achieving your dreams! Click here to find out how you can apply for the 2012
CREATE Your Future Grant Scheme. Applications Now Open and close June 29th!
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In National Families Week 2012, everyone is encouraged to think about the valuable role families play in helping children to develop, learn and grow, and to reflect on the influence families have on a child’s wellbeing. This years theme is Families Make All the Difference: Helping Kids to Grow and Learn, and the week also coincides with the UN International Day of Families on Tuesday 15 May.
For children and young people in care, their experience of ‘family’ may be quite different than their peers who are not in care. They may have some contact with their natural parents or no contact at all. They may have stable placements with carers that they may consider to be like ‘family’ or they may move around, living in several different households and sometimes for only short periods of time. Some children and young people in care get to live with other relatives and in the same place as their siblings, but there are many who find themselves in an unfamiliar place without anyone around who they would call ‘family’. CREATE Foundation acknowledges the role that families play in the development and growth of children and young people. CREATE also recognises the vital role that siblings, grandparents and other relatives and carers play in the lives of children and young people in care.
Families Australia states that “Families are the foundation for shaping children’s physical, social, emotional and cognitive development”. When families are unable to provide this foundation, it is imperative that the community steps in to ensure that each child or young person is provided with a nurturing environment that ensures they have every opportunity to develop and reach their full potential.
This National Families Week, CREATE urges people to consider the lives of children and young people in care and celebrate the diversity of family experiences that support the growth, development, and learning of children and young people in care.
For more information about National Families Week please go to the Families Australia website at www.familiesaustralia.org.au/familiesweek.
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