Resources

Foundations of the Future – Building a Workforce that Cares, Connects and Evolves is our shared plan to strengthen and celebrate Queensland’s residential care workforce. Developed with the support of the sector, this strategy focuses on creating meaningful career pathways, building respectful and collaborative cultures, and ensuring every worker feels empowered to make a lasting difference in the lives of children and young people.

In partnership with Social Vantage Advisory and Queensland Family and Child Commission, PeakCare is proud to produce the Together for Safeguarding: A workforce capability framework for the child and family sector.

This framework will support organisations in embedding child safeguarding into their culture, systems and workforce. It provides clear, role-specific guidance that enables staff, from frontline workers to Board members, to understand what child safeguarding practice looks like in action. It is based on evidence, shaped by lived experience, and aligned with the Queensland Child Safe Standards and Universal Principle.

The Embedding Safeguarding into Everyday Practice resource has been developed to support organisations across the sector to implement the framework in a way that is practical, tailored and sustainable. It outlines a phased approach that begins with establishing a clear baseline of current safeguarding culture, systems and workforce capability and builds toward a whole-of- organisation integration.

Establishing a baseline is a critical first step in piloting the framework. It helps you understand your organisation’s current safeguarding culture, systems and workforce capability, and identify gaps and opportunities for growth.

In partnership with Project Paradigm and Queensland Family and Child Commission, PeakCare is proud to introduce Safe & Sound in Queensland: Enhancing safety for young people missing from care, a first-of-its-kind toolkit aimed at supporting frontline workers to provide best practice responses for children who go missing from their home or place of care.

In late 2023, the Department of Child Safety, Seniors and Disability Services undertook a major review of Queensland’s residential care system. A key outcome of the review is A Roadmap for Residential Care in Queensland, which outlines critical actions across five domains for change, that will deliver a flexible and sustainable care system that meets the needs of children, young people, families and communities.

In late 2023, the Department of Child Safety, Seniors and Disability Services released the Motor Vehicle Safety – Guidelines for Child Protection Placement Services. These guidelines cover a range of vehicle safety requirements and aim to assist non‑government organisations to develop and refine their own motor vehicle safety processes.

Following release of the guidelines, several questions were raised with PeakCare by child and family sector organisations relating to the interpretation and operationalisation of these guidelines. In response, PeakCare has facilitated a series of review and clarification activities with the department which has resulted in amendments to the guidelines and the development of the Frequently Asked Questions and clarifications