Foster and Kinship Carers Week is a special time for us all to acknowledge and celebrate the incredible contribution carers make to the lives of…

Today, the team were out at Parafield Gardens, celebrating National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day at the Aboriginal Family Support Services ‘Connection to…

In our previous post, we quoted children and young people verbatim about some of their feelings about living in residential care. It is not always ‘easy listening’ but…

Below are some quotes collected by Advocates from the Child and Young Person’s Visitor scheme while visiting with children and young people in residential care…

New resources, available today, will give children and young people in residential care information about their right to make a complaint and be heard. Developed…

We would like to share with you some of our favorite artworks from young Aboriginal people in residential care that have come to our notice…

The Guardian’s Office received a record 96 in-mandate[1] requests for advocacy in the first quarter of the new year, representing 127 children and young people.…

The ability to participate and have their voice heard is an important issue for Australia’s children and young people. This is a key principle of…

Following up from Commissioner Nyland’s recommendation #136 in her August 2016 report on child protection systems in South Australia, the Guardian asked CREATE to ask…

For CEO of West Coast Youth and Community Support (WCYCS), Jo Clark, the key to working with young people is listening to what they have…

11 December 2017 This song lyric was offered to one of our advocates for publication by a young woman during a visit to a residential…

11 July 2017 For abuse of a child to occur, the first necessary condition is that the child remain silent, that their voice not be…