A Task Force on Child Sexual Abuse was established by the Premier of Western Australia in June 1986 and delivered its final report in December 1987. The Task Force was chaired by Dr Carmen Lawrence and membership included senior officers from relevant public agencies and a representative of the Incest Survivors Association. The Task Force…
A second Ministerial Advisory Council on Child Protection was established on 1 March 2009 with an independent chairperson. The multi-discipinary committee includes senior representatives from government and non-government agencies, and members of the community. The Council advises the Minister on child protection matters.
The Western Australian Child Protection Council was established by Cabinet on 12 May 1997 to advise the Minister on child protection matters. It continued to operate until at least the end of 2002.
A Ministerial Advisory Council on Child Protection was established on 30 January 2003 with an independent chairperson. The multi-discipinary committee included senior representatives from government and non-government agencies, and members of the community. The Council advised the Minister on child protection matters. This Ministerial Advisory Council was still active in 2007 and possibly did not…
The Advisory and Co-ordinating Committee on Child Abuse (ACCCA) was established by Order 1985 of the Community Services Act 1972 on 10 January 1986. ACCCA had assisted the Child Abuse Review Panel in 1984 but did not have a statutory role until this Order came into effect. ACCCA was a multi-discipinary agency set up to…
A Child Abuse Review Panel was jointly commissioned by the Hon Ministers for Police, Health and Community Services in Western Australia in May 1984. The Panel reported to those Ministers in July 1985. The broad purpose of the Panel was to review systems of child protection in WA, provide specialist advice to child protection workers,…
A Taskforce with the role of identifying the scope and extent of stolen wages in Western Australia was established in May 2007 by the State Government. The Taskforce found that there was insufficient evidence of wages held in trust being returned to the people who earned them. These people included Aboriginal children who had been…
The Child Welfare Advisory Council began meeting in 1965. It provided advice to the Minister about issues related to children who were state wards or supervised in other ways by the Social Welfare Department and its successors. The Council was abolished in about 1998. The Child Welfare Advisory Council was established under section 5 of…
The Aboriginal Child, Family and Community Care State Secretariat [AbSec] was formed to strengthen links between Aboriginal child and family service provider agencies and to support the organisations to provide effective and high quality services for children and young people. It has been funded by the Australian Government as the Peak Body for Aboriginal Out-of-Home…
The Children’s Welfare Advisory Council came into being with the passage of the Children’s Welfare Act 1954. The Council consisted of representatives nominated by the Children’s Welfare Association of Victoria and the Victorian Council of Social Service. Its name changed to the Family Welfare Advisory Council with the passage of the Social Welfare Act 1960….
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