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2. Out of Home and Accommodation Services

Category 2.
Out of Home and Accommodation Services
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2. Out of Home and Accommodation Services

Foster-carer Team Development and Support (21)

Establish foster carers as full team members, and redevelop field worker practice guidelines, training and performance development to support these changes.

Foster-care Service Development: Foster Care Recruitment, Training and Respite (20)
Increase the pool of foster carers to expand the amount of respite available to general and relative foster carers; increase the provision of accessible, high-quality training to all foster carers.

Residential Care Development: 1st Level (23a)
Develop partnerships with the non government sector for an additional 128 Level 1 beds across all districts.

Residential Care Development: 2nd Level (23b)
48 dedicated Level 2 treatment beds in four hostels and three transformed group homes across metropolitan districts, and 16 Level 2 assessment beds in two Department hostels.

Residential Care Development: 3rd Level (23c)
The Secure Care Facility will provide up to 20 safe, secure, therapeutic and short term crisis care beds for children and young people at risk to themselves and others.

Abuse in Care (31)
Finalise the implementation of the recommendations from recent reviews concerning children in care.

Adoptions Reform (17)
Implement the outcomes of the parliamentary review of the adoptions legislation and review and streamline the local and inter-country adoption processes.

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