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Peak Services and ATSICCO Sector Development You will identify work priorities detailing tasks, activities and timeframes to be undertaken and completed by the end of each financial year.

Work priorities must be negotiated with Us and determined by 30 May of the respective years.

Once agreed, You will develop an annual work plan (Attachment 1) and submit by 28 July each year as part of June quarterly report submission.

You must provide services equally to Your members and non-members.

Your CEO will meet with Our Senior Executive Director, Investment and Commissioning quarterly to discuss strategic priorities, enabling the work plan to be monitored and updated accordingly.

Each quarter, You will submit a progress report (Attachment 1) demonstrating status of activities identified in the annual workplan, issues, solutions and revised timeframe.

You will support the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Controlled Organisation (ATSICCO) sector across Queensland and their workforce to build their capacity and capability to develop and implement best practices to better support: • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and their families who may be experiencing vulnerability across the state, including those who participate in statutory decision-making processes (Child Safety) • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people and their families involved in the youth justice system (Youth Justice).

You will continue to work with the ATSICCO sector to support the development and implementation of Our children and families related reforms and initiatives.

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Delegated Authority You will provide the required skills and technical expertise to support the continued development, refinement and delivery of priority actions to enable statewide implementation of delegated authority.

For the term of the agreement, You will partner with Us to lead and/or support: • Strategic level governance arrangements for delegated authority • Local level governance arrangements for delegated authority • Joint project team arrangements.

You will also work with Us to deliver the following key priorities over the term of this agreement, to be included in Your annual Work Plan as negotiated with Us, to support the statewide implementation of delegated authority as aligned to Reclaiming our Storyline: Transforming systems and practice by making decisions in our way.

2.1 Supporting regional planning processes, sector readiness and delegated authority implementation You will provide strategic, regional and localised advice, guidance and direct support where required to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander entities and lead and/or participate in these activities in partnership with Us.

This may include: • Facilitating, and/or co-facilitating engagement and planning processes as determined by local level stakeholder feedback, including Us • Supporting QATSICPP member and non-member organisations to deliver delegated authority by providing readiness support, implementation governance advice, direct practice guidance and operational support as required and requested by the organisations and Us • Undertaking related sector implementation support as signalled by Reclaiming our Storyline, including providing input into commissioning and investment planning processes.

2.2 Provision of sector capacity building activities, induction and training and operational practice guidance materials You will engage with the sector to identify and prioritise capacity and capability skilling requirements, practice development support and guidance as part of implementation processes which will be reflected in Your annual workplan to be developed in partnership with Us.

The nature of this capacity and capability building will support and enable direct operational transition of functions and powers to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander entities and the provision of consistent and quality responses.

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