Children and young people have spoken about their experiences of the out of home care (OOHC) system across a range of ACYP consultations including those conducted for the Strategic Plan for Children and Young People; as well as consultations with children and young people experiencing homelessness, consultations in juvenile detention, consultations with children and young people about violence, and with socially excluded children and young people.
ACYP undertook a targeted consultation as part of the Association of Children’s Welfare Agencies Conference (ACWA) 2018. ACYP held a one day conference for 39 children and young people with experiences of living in out of home care (OOHC). The children and young people came together from all across the state to participate in face-to-face consultations to share their experiences of being in care, how the service system has both met and not met their needs and where they would like to see improvements in the system.
On 21 August 2018 as part of the Association of Children’s Welfare Conference 2018, The Advocate for Children and Young People held a one day conference for young people with experiences of living in out of home care (OOHC). Forty young people came together from across NSW to share their experiences of being in care, how the service system has both met and not met their needs, and where they would like to see improvements in the system. At the end of the day a summary of the answers to each of the questions was presented back to the audience attending the main conference by two of the young people.