Uniting Communities has made a submission to the Senate Standing Committees on Community Affairs – Community Affairs Referencing Committee regarding the government’s ParentsNext program. This submission provides responses to a number of the Inquiry’s Terms of Reference, with an emphasis on the disadvantaging effects that the ParentsNext program has on children and their parents, with…
The Prime Minister of Australia delivered the 11th annual Closing the Gap report today. Last year, three of the seven targets were on track and this year only two are on track. The gap appears to be widening, not narrowing. Simon Schrapel, CEO of Uniting Communities: ‘It seems that after more than ten years of…
Chief Executive, Simon Schrapel, has contributed an editorial to today’s In Daily, looking at the latest data on children being placed in out-of-home care and asking whether South Australia’s increased expenditure on child protection is leading to better outcomes. Read the full article.
