SNAICC

Employment opportunities available at SNAICC in the Policy Team

01 February 2010

Two employment opportunities available at SNAICC: Manager, Policy & Research and Policy Officer.

A National Standards for Out of Home Care consultation is now underway

31 January 2010

Your comments on national standards for out of home care for children are needed! National Standards for Out of Home Care are being developed under the Australian Government’s National Child Protection Framework, and will be finalised this year

SNAICC letter to the Editor on the NT child protection system & the Aboriginal Child Placement Principle

10 February 2010

Some Aboriginal children, like other children, need to be placed in out home care to keep them safe. SNAICC has long argued the child’s safety is always paramount & for greater community involvement in child protection systems.

NT Child Protection Inquiry submission deadline is 12 March 2010

09 February 2010

The NT Child Protection Inquiry now has a website and the submissions deadline is 12 March 2010.

Social Justice Report 2009

09 February 2010

Tom Calma, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, has tabled a report focusing on reduction of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander over-representation in the criminal justice system; protection of languages & sustaining homelands

A National Framework for information on government expenditure on services

08 February 2010

An Indigenous Expenditure Report Steering Committee is developing a National Framework for collecting and reporting information on government expenditure on services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Another hold up in hearings at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal

04 February 2010

The complaint filed by the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada has been delayed again by the recently appointed Chair of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.

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