The Client Incident Management System (CIMS) is the program that investigates reports of incidents made against carers who may have mistreated children in their care.  There are reports made against kinship carers, but this does not happen very often. Over the years, KCV has witnessed some serious breaches of carers’ rights, particularly when a report is not upheld. Carers and children have been seriously affected by the unfairness of the processes over the years and are not compensated for years of trauma when a report is not upheld.

The DFFH has undertaken a review of CIMS procedures and has released a new set of guidelines. Carers need to be aware of the fact that it is quite easy for a report to be made and that if one is made, they need to listen to this podcast and contact their support agency immediately.

I recommend that carers listen to this podcast right away and then refer to it later, if necessary, as well.

Cheers

Anne McLeish
Director

Although our Children’s Commissioner is moving onto a critical area of work for which she is well suited, particularly given her given her integrity and forthright attitude, it must be said that GPV/KCV will miss her and believes that her role as Children’s Commissioner has set a high standard in terms of the quality of her work and in terms of her understanding and compassion for people and children dealing with disadvantage.

GPV/KCV looks forward to further celebrating Liana’s work at some time in the not-too-distant future.

Anne McLeish OAM

A new video from GPV/KCV on positive discipline

GPV/KCV is pleased to launch its video on positive discipline.  It is a feature in the GPV/KCV campaign to ensure that physical punishment of children is made illegal across Australia.

The video is a reminder that positive discipline can work and should be viewed in conjunction with reading written materials on positive discipline.

Non-physical types of discipline for children and young people (booklet)
Reasons not to hit children (article)
Physical punishment in Australia (video)

GPV/KCV commends signing the petition to have physical punishment made illegal across Australia.

This guide has been developed by KCV in response to previous nutrition seminars.

The articles in this magazine have been selected to reflect the conversations that took place at those seminars.