Provision of Connecting Kin Officer for Family Connections and Kinship Care Support

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DCSSDS awarded a contract to Yulu Burri Ba Aboriginal Corporation for Community Health for the provision of one full-time Connecting Kin Officer to deliver case management supporting the search for and engagement of family members for children and young people under 18 years subject to the Chief Executive's custody or guardianship under the Child Protection Act 1999, and to support family connections and identification of prospective kinship carer households through timely expenditure of brokerage funding consistent with the Family Based Care (Kinship Care) brokerage guidelines.

The officer will work in partnership with the DCSSDS South East Region Placement Services Unit, Child Safety Service Centres, and the Finding Kin team to support the region's Keeping KINnected project.

The contract value is AUD 323,084, procured via a limited process.