Australian Children Safety Alliance

Child and Family Focus SA is the auspicing body of the Australian Children’s Safety Alliance (ACSA).

ACSA is comprised of representatives of CAFFSA member organisations in order to facilitate a collaborative partnership to advance, promote and implement domestic violence informed approaches to addressing the safety of women, protection of children and interventions with perpetrators of domestic violence and abuse.

The aims of the Australian Children’s Safety Alliance are to:

Provide leadership in policy and practice development for agencies, practitioners and child protections systems;
Act as a public voice for the safety of all women and children experiencing domestic violence and abuse;
Make visible and accountable the behaviour of perpetrators of domestic violence and abuse;
Identify opportunities to measure and evaluate the impact of the ‘Safe and Together’ Model and other domestic violence informed approaches in South Australia;
Proactively identify and champion models of practice that are culturally responsive, culturally valid and endorsed by Aboriginal members, stakeholders and advisory groups such as the Family Matters Working Group in South Australia.
ACSA is currently chaired by Michael Hawke, Anglicare SA.

To find out more about ACSA go to the ACSA page

SACOSS Policy Council

The SACOSS Policy Council is nominated from SACOSS’s membership. Its aims are to develop policies relevant to the sector as well as to help plan and develop key areas of social policy development. Policy Council members hold office for two year terms and are elected in different categories, as set out in the SACOSS Constitution.

SA Health Policy Advisory Committee 

The SA Health Statewide Child Protection and Policy Stakeholder Advisory Committee (Stakeholder Advisory Committee) forms part of a governance structure that sits under the SA Health Child Protection and Policy Board (the Board) which oversees and is responsible for all matters relating to child protection within the Health portfolio.

The Stakeholder Advisory Committee provides advice to the SA Health Statewide Child Protection Services Model of Care Steering Committee (the Steering Committee) to assist its deliberations in the co-design a new Statewide service model for SA Health’s three tertiary Child Protection Services (CPS) units in the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN), Southern Adelaide Local Health Network (SALHN) and Women’s and Children’s Health Network (WCHN).

The Stakeholder Advisory Committee also provides advice on broader matters relating to child protection in SA Health such as legislation, regulations, policy, protocols and inter-agency service design, however the section of the governance structure responsible for making recommendations on these broader child protection matters is yet to be determined.

The Stakeholder Advisory Committee consists of agencies that provide services that are ancillary or feed into South Australia’s child protection system, as well as representatives of children and young people with lived experience of child protection services.