Kinship Carers Victoria’s series of Resource Booklets and other resources for carers.
Children’s Education
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LOOKOUT Centres supporting kinship carers
For many kinship carers, one of the biggest challenges is supporting a child’s education. Navigating enrolments, dealing with schools or early childhood services, managing transitions and making sure the right supports are in place can feel overwhelming.
In this episode, we speak with Murray Geddes, Executive Principal of the South-East Victoria LOOKOUT Centre. Murray explains how the LOOKOUT Centres work and what support they can offer kinship carers.
LOOKOUT Centres were established by the Victorian Government to improve educational outcomes for children and young people in out-of-home care.
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Government schools need our support
In this podcast, Director of Grandparents Victoria and Kinship Carers Victoria Anne McLeish speaks with Trevor Cobbold, national convener of Save our Schools. Before retiring, Trevor was an economist with the Australian Government’s Productivity Commission and its predecessors for over 30 years. Trevor talks us through the economic and structural inequality in our education system, in particular the under-funding of public schools in Victoria.
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Issues with Education for Children and Young People in Out-of-Home Care
In this podcast we speak with Victoria’s Commissioner for Children and Young People, Liana Buchanan, about the Commission’s Let Us Learn inquiry report, tabled in the Victorian parliament in November 2023.
The report shows that the education engagement and outcomes for children and young people in out-of-home care trail significantly behind those of their peers.
Liana explains why the Commission conducted the report and outlines its reaction to the findings. She also discusses some of the Commission’s most pressing recommendations resulting from the inquiry.
