Sharing Responsibility for Our Children, Young People and Their Families: Government Embracing Change
Tasmania will see a whole-of-government response to the Select Committee on Child Protection's final report.
Tabled in Parliament today (15 May 2012), the Tasmanian Government's Response, Sharing Responsibility for Our Children, Young People and their Families, sets out how the Committee's recommendations will be used to continue to improve services.
Critical to the response is the commitment to the public health approach to the safety and wellbeing of Tasmania's children, young people and their families.
The Government Response — A Quick Reference Guide brings together in one place the strategic thinking and commitments set out in Tasmanian Government policy that aim to improve outcomes for children, young people and their families. The Guide contains key information distilled from the principal policy documents and sets out in a few short pages what we are doing and, importantly, how we need to operate to implement the Government Response.