Category 1.
Field Service Delivery (10)
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Child Protection Practice Framework (5a)
Adopt and implement the Signs of Safety risk assessment approach to ensure consistent and evidence based child protection practices across all departmental child protection services.
Field Service Policy (6a & 6b)
Review, streamline and standardise departmental Field Worker Guidelines in a user friendly format, easily understood by staff.
Consistent Intake (5b)
Develop and implement a duty and intake structure, process and response to referrals consistent across Department District Offices, CCU, the Mandatory Reporting Call Centre and Responsible Parenting.
WA Mandatory Reporting (29)
Develop and implement legislation for the mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse by doctors, nurses, teachers and police in Western Australia including policies, training, services and reporting systems.
Permanency Planning (16)
Develop a Departmental strategic framework and field worker practice guidelines on permanency planning, referring gaps in the existing legislation to the 2010 review of the Children and Community Services Act 2004.
Interagency Early Intervention: At risk new born babies (32a)
Develop collaborative working arrangements with service providers and families, with a focus on pregnancy and the newborn period.
Pre-Litigation Family Group Conferencing (32b)
Identify ways in which limited resources for legal assistance for parents can be used more productively, with an emphasis on involving legal counsel in family group conferences.
Compulsory Income Management (33)
Currently being finalised
District Senior Practice Development Officers (30)
Establish and employ permanent Senior Practice Development Officers in each District Office.
Videoconferencing (15)
Assess and develop an appropriate approach for delivering specialist therapeutic services to rural and remote communities through videoconferencing.
WA Police Colocation (34a)
Family and Domestic Violence Policy, Guidelines and Learning Strategy (34b)
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