Please streamline and expedite adoption for children in permanent care residing with experienced, authorised foster families in NSW. In 2013/14 there were 18,950 children in OOHC NSW (FACS 2013 – 2014 Annual Report). Even with early intervention programs and a restoration focus for short term care, the number of children entering OOHC has increased whilst the number of foster carers has decreased.
CAFS study day
The Abbott government will spend almost $250 million on a two year nanny trial program, providing funding to about 10,000 children.
Sadie has been painting her dad's nails ever since she was a toddler.
The grieving parents of a toddler who drowned in a backyard swimming pool weeks after he was taken into foster care in Sydney's north-west say their son should never have been placed in a home that was unsafe for children.
Sydney Homeless Connect opened the doors of Town Hall to the city's homeless on Tuesday, offering everything from hot meals and hair cuts to practical advice about how to find accommodation.
Rich or poor, kids are equally concerned about body image. The differences emerge when it comes to education, jobs and coping with stress.
For eight years, the Zammit twins arrived at work an hour early so they could be home in time to pick their children up from school – freeing their working wives to get them off to school.
For most people, living next door to your parents would be a nightmare — but not for Narelle Harrington. The 37-year-old lives independently in a community that provides homes for adults with an intellectual disability and their parent carers.
Sydney Homeless Connect
Lobby group urges the NSW Government to champion affordable accommodation by building above and beside train stations.
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Parental separation substantially raises the risk of homelessness by the age of 30 for girls and boys, but only boys are affected by a break-up after the age of 12.
An estimated 600 people are expected to make their way from Sydney Town Hall to The Block in Redfern in a protest march that will temporarily shut down George Street and other parts of the CBD with rolling road closures.
A dad travels for work and then caves in to a 6-year-old when he’s home. Meghan Leahy advises.
My father quit his job in the 1980s so he could spend a year caring for my two brothers.
Homeless people in inner Sydney have spent an average of five years and four months without a home, new research has revealed.
Jason Howard, vice-president of the Glebe Greyhounds AFL club, has been "sucked right in" by volunteering.
Fremantle's council is unveiling its latest attempt to discourage beggars on city streets: moving them on and setting up spare change collection points in their place.
You know Sydney is on the skids when the doorstep of our busiest train station has become a homeless tent city marked by drugs and booze and violence.
