The needs of and responses to young people in care living in unapproved locations is the topic of this month’s Child Protection Practitioners Association of Queensland (CPPAQ) Practice Paper session.
The session will be held from 6pm on Thursday, 14 November, at Cooper Grace Ward, level 21/400 George Street, Brisbane, after the AGM at 5.30pm.
The speaker is Dr Jemma Venables, a Senior Lecturer in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work at the University of Queensland.
Her applied research explores the interface of systems that support vulnerable children and their families, from the perspective of multiple stakeholders including young people, families and practitioners.
Heather Bryce, CPPAQ Board Member and Director of Child Safety at the Anglican Schools Commission, will chair the session which focuses on young people in out-of-home care who leaved approved placements without permission to stay in other unapproved locations (family, friends, strangers or sleeping rough).
The session concludes with consideration of how to reform policy and practice to enhance young people’s wellbeing, safety and connection, while in care and in their transition to adulthood.
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