PeakCare Submissions
2025
Submission in response to the Review of the Domestic Discipline Defence
On 20 April 2025, PeakCare lodged a response to the Queensland Law Reform Commission in response to the Review of the Domestic Discipline Defence.
2025
Submission in response to the Making Queensland Safer (Adult Time Adult Crime) Amendment Bill 2025
On 16 April 2025, PeakCare lodged a response to the Justice, Integrity and Community Safety Committee on the Making Queensland Safer (Adult Time Adult Crime) Amendment Bill 2025.
2025
Submission in response to the Police Powers and Responsibilities (Making Jack’s Law Permanent) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025
On 15 April 2025, PeakCare lodged a response to the Justice, Integrity and Community Safety Committee on Police Powers and Responsibilities (Making Jack’s Law Permanent) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025.
PeakCare Reports
Queensland’s Residential Care Workforce – Insights & Opportunities
Queensland’s residential care system provides a crucial safety net – when its needed most – for children and young people experiencing vulnerability. Our workforce is characterised by people driven to make a difference. As a sector, however, we continue to face challenges in the delivery of quality care, as demand rises and the needs of children and young people become increasingly complex.
In 2023, PeakCare invited government to partner with the sector to address these concerns. As part of development of a workforce strategy to meet the current and future needs of Queensland’s residential care sector, the Catalyst for Care program released this Insights & Opportunities Report, building on work already undertaken to identify opportunities and challenges within the system.
Click here to view the Summary Report with key takeaways, indicators and highlights.
Click here to view the full report with further details.
Sector Voices Insights Report 2024
From July to November 2024, PeakCare conducted a Sector Voices survey and workshops right across Queensland. This initiative aimed to reflect PeakCare’s commitment to independent, evidence-based advocacy, driven by the voices of our members and the broader child and family sector.
This information has informed a formal insights report on the themes discussed, and how we will work together to advocate for solutions with the sector and with the new Queensland Government. Click here to view the report.
Sector Voices Roadshow 2024: Hot Topics as at 1 December
PeakCare’s Sector Voices survey and workshops, conducted across Queensland from July to November 2024, reflect our dedication to advocacy that is independent, evidence-based, and driven by the perspectives of our members and sector. As we travelled across Queensland, we gathered invaluable insights from our members, partners and stakeholders, with four key themes emerging from the workshops: children and young people, workforce, relationships and collaboration, and the child and family service system.
A full sector insights report is due for distribution in quarter one of 2025. In the meantime, click here to view PeakCare’s Sector Roadshow 2024 hot topics documentation.
The voices of young people in youth detention centres 2023-24
One of PeakCare’s core principles is that children and young people are at the centre of everything we do. In line with this principle, we strongly believe the voices and perspectives of young people with experience of the youth justice system should guide the youth justice system. PeakCare has been regularly speaking with young people in youth detention across the past 12 months on issues that directly affect their lives. We will continue to hear and amplify these voices as they are most impacted by the system, and they have powerful insights about what works to reduce offending.
Click here to view Young People’s Voices 2023-24
Queensland Foster Carer Demographic Insights Report: The Future of Foster Care
In June 2024, in response to Queensland’s foster carer shortage and the over-reliance on residential care, PeakCare, in partnership with the Queensland Family and Child Commission (QFCC) and The Demographics Group, released this groundbreaking report revealing the alarming need for system reform. This in-depth analysis sheds light on the demographic trends impacting Queensland’s foster care system and offers actionable opportunities for government to address the sector’s pressing challenges.
Click here to view the full Future of Foster Care Report
Click here to view The Demographics Group slide pack
PeakCare Discussion Papers
Towards a better understanding and management of the nexus between child protection and domestic and family violence
This paper released in May 2014 builds on matters raised at the symposium hosted by PeakCare and Griffith University in December 2013 that explored the intersection of child protection and domestic and family violence. PeakCare does not pretend that this paper ‘holds the answers’. Rather, its intentions are to, in a very preliminary way, explore and focus some of the questions that need to be asked and to serve as a catalyst and prompt for further discussion.
Secure Care – Needed or Not?
This paper released in March 2013 responds to the Queensland Child Protection Commission of Inquiry (Carmody Inquiry) and discusses the issues involved in considering the introduction of a secure care option for Queensland children in State care, and collates the views of PeakCare Members and Supporters and other interest groups about this important matter for submission to the Carmody Inquiry.
Permanency planning and the question of adoption
This paper released in February 2013 responds to the Queensland Child Protection Commission of Inquiry (Carmody Inquiry) and discusses permanency planning for children who might otherwise be facing long term guardianship to the Chief Executive and placement in out-of-home care, as well as considering the question of adoption as an option for achieving permanency in the care provided for children. This paper identifies and methodically explores any changes to legislation, policy and/or practice concerning permanency planning, and collates the views of PeakCare Members and Supporters and other interest groups about this important matter for submission to the Carmody Inquiry.
PeakCare Products
What Lies Beneath the Words: the Sequel
What Lies Beneath… the Words is a short film produced by PeakCare in 2016. Inspired by the classic suspense thriller, What Lies Beneath starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford, this film delves into the scary things that often lie beneath the words that children and young people encounter, day in and…
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What Lies Beneath the Words
What Lies Beneath the Words is our filmed adaptation of a session of the same title delivered by Lindsay Wegener, PeakCares Executive Director at CREATEs Youth for Change Conference and at The Encore Sessions hosted by PeakCare and the Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Protection Peak in late 2015….
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Culturally Sensitive Practice in Out of Home Care – A Good Practice Guide to supporting children and young people from culturally and linguistically diverse [CALD] backgrounds in Out of Home Care.
The Guide, authored by Ms Jatinder Kaur of JK Diversity Consultants and co-sponsored by Key Assets – The Children’s Service Provider [Queensland], Life Without Barriers, and PeakCare Queensland, has been developed as a practice guide for anyone working with children and young people from CALD backgrounds and is targeted towards practitioners…
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