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Development of options for a South Australian Aboriginal children and families peak body: final report
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The South Australian Government’s Aboriginal Affairs Action Plan 2021–2022 commits the Government to fund and deliver a peak body for Aboriginal children and families. South Australian community stakeholders, and Aboriginal organisations on the national scale, had called for a peak body for children and families in South Australia for many years. This commitment from the government provides a significant opportunity to enliven the community’s ambition to increase Aboriginal leadership for children and families. It also aligns with a key tenet of the National Agreement on Closing the Gap (the National Agreement).
SNAICC is firmly of the view that peak bodies must be community-designed, community-controlled and independent of government to align with their core purpose; as such, the central aim of this project is for the design of the proposed peak body to be driven by the Aboriginal community and community-controlled sectors of South Australia.
This report reflects the views of Aboriginal people, families, communities and organisations who participated in the state-wide consultation process by sharing their experiences, concerns, and aspirations for the future wellbeing of their children and family
members.
Key recommendations:
- The South Australian Department for Child Protection, Department of Human Services, Department for Education, Department for Correctional Services, AttorneyGeneral’s Department, and the SA Health portfolio should develop a central funding agreement, with a total value of at least $900,000 per annum (indexed to inflation), to resource the peak body's core and recurring functions.
- The South Australian Government should fund SNAICC to appoint an establishment steering committee from the South Australian Aboriginal community, and undertake secretariat functions to this committee, over a period of one year.
- All South Australian Government agencies named in Recommendation 1, above, should consider how they could support the work of the establishment steering committee through the provision of in-kind services, infrastructure, or staff secondments. Agencies should communicate their support options to the establishment steering committee before the end of the 2022 calendar year.
