Submission to the Queensland Child Death Review Board

Senate inquiry into Australia’s youth justice and incarceration system

This submission highlights the urgent need for a nationally driven therapeutic approach to youth justice through enforceable national minimum standards to address the significant challenges faced by children and young people in youth justice.

Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility – alternative diversion model

This joint submission underscores the significant challenges that children and young people in contact with the youth justice system face, particularly those who are also involved in the out-of-home care system and those under the age of 12.

Submission to the NSW Advocate for Children and Young People: Special Inquiry: Children and Young People in Alternative Care Arrangements (ACAs)

This submission to the NSW Advocate for Children and Young People calls for a reconceptualisation of the out-of-home care system to be underpinned by a trauma-informed and child-centred approach to relational stability.

Agenda for Change: Ensuring a safe and supportive out-of-home care system for children and young people in New South Wales

This policy document calls on the new New South Wales Government to support and implement six fundamental changes to the out-of-home care system.

Pulse check survey

In late 2020, CETC surveyed 217 Intensive Therapeutic Care staff to evaluate the success and challenges of the ITC system in NSW after its first two years. This is the report on the outcomes of that survey.