Supporting Kin and Supporting Foster Care AB/Torres Strait Islander Community - NQR Townsville
Tender Overview
About this tender
Overview The Department of Families, Seniors, Disability Services and Child Safety (QLD) is seeking a service provider to deliver Supporting Kin and Supporting Foster Care services for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community in the North Queensland Region, Townsville. Scope The scope includes: Supporting Kin (T212) services: supporting approved kinship carer households, including provisional approved carers Supporting all ongoing kinship carer assessments and renewals Focusing supports for kinship care households to support care arrangements and help ensure families remain caring for as long as required, with a retention focus Supporting Foster Care (T214) services: supporting approved foster carer households, including provisional approved carers Supporting all ongoing foster carer assessments and renewals Focusing supports for foster carer households to support care arrangements and help ensure foster carers remain engaged and caring for as long as possible, with a retention focus Responding to care arrangement requests via Unify Managing up-to-date foster care agreements Supporting care arrangement matching with the pool of approved foster carers
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