fact sheets
children & families
- Aggression in children and young people
- Domestic and family violence hurts children
- Kids in cars: never leave a child unattended in a car
- Sexting and cyber-safety: protecting your child online
- Game over! – information for managing online gaming
- Surviving teenage parties – tips for parents
adoption
- Adoption: fees and costs for Intercountry Adoptions
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Adoption of a relative or specific child who lives in an overseas country
- Advance notice register
- Contact veto register
- Fathers whose child was adopted
- Hardship policy
- How to apply for a supply authority
- Inheriting a deceased person’s rights
- Reunion and information register
- adoptions of children born in Korea
- adoptions of children born overseas
- adoption services for adoptees under 18 (adopted pre 2010)
- adoption services for adoptees under 18 (adopted in or after 2010
- Accessing adoption information for people without a direct entitlement
- Advance notice register
- Contact veto register
foster care
- Change to the allowance for carers who adopt a child in statutory out-of-home care
- Changes to care allowances for young people from 16 years
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Charter of rights for children and young people in care
The Charter is also available in Arabic, Chinese, Samoan, Spanish, Tongan, Turkish, Vietnamese - Commonwealth government benefits: Health Care Card
- Family contact – information for foster carers
- Family contact – information for parents
- Family contact – information for relative and kinship carers
- Health needs of children and young people in out-of-home care
- Helping children and young people reach their potential at school
- Legal assistance for carers
- Life story work for children and young people in out-of-home care
- Release of placement information
- Sole parental responsibility orders
- Sport & recreation for children and young people in out-of-home care
- Welfare to work exemption
- adopting a child in out-of-home care - information for carers
about Community Services (formerly DoCS)
- Accountability and scrutiny
- Brighter Futures Program
- Brighter Futures – information for parents
- How child protection operates in NSW
- Interpreting scheme for DoCS funded services
- Investigating child fatalities from abuse or neglect
- Media guide to reporting Community Services stories
- Sponsorship guidelines and application form
To report suspected child abuse or neglect, call the Child Protection Helpline on 132 111 (24 hours/7 days)