Our priorities

Overarching priority-setting documents

• Strategic Plan 2021-2025 (PDF, 454 KB) Strategic Plan 2021-2025 (DOCX, 1.3 MB)

• Provides the department’s vision, purpose, objectives, strategies and performance indicators and demonstrates how we contribute to Advancing Queensland’s Priorities.

• Service delivery statements 2019-2020 (PDF)

Child and family

• Supporting Families, Changing Futures
• Out-of-home care and transition services
• Therapeutic supports

Key deliverables:

• Facilitate and implement child protection and family support reforms in collaboration with other agencies
• Fund and support these services delivered by carers and non-government organisations
• Facilitate implementation of these supports for children and young people in out-of-home care

• Our Way Strategy and Action Plan

Priority: Reducing the disproportionate representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Queenslanders in child protection

Key deliverable:

• Progress the action plan to reduce the disproportionate representation in child protection and improve life outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families

• Child protection and family support reforms
• Supporting Families, Changing Futures
• Strengths based, safety oriented child protection practice framework
• Child protection services

Key deliverables:

• Facilitate and implement Supporting Families, Changing Futures, in collaboration with other agencies
• Continue to embed this practice framework
• Deliver high-quality statutory child protection services

• Child and family, and domestic and family violence services

Priority: Preventing and responding to domestic and family violence and sexual assault

Key deliverables:

• Commission additional child and family, and domestic and family violence services
• Facilitate and implement the Domestic and Family Violence Strategy and the Queensland Violence Against Women Prevention Plan
• Coordinate whole-of-government implementation of actions under the Third Action Plan of the National Plan for Reducing Violence Against Women and their children

• Supporting Families, Changing Futures

Priority: Transforming family and parenting supports so that children and families receive assistance when they need it

Key deliverable:

• Facilitate and implement Supporting Families, Changing Futures, child protection and family support reforms in collaboration with other agencies

• Report scheduled to be handed down in December 2017

Priority: Actioning initiatives arising from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and other review bodies

Key deliverable:

• Respond to relevant matters and recommendations from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and other review bodies

• Our performance - Child safety

• This site provides timely and accessible performance data about the family support and child protection system.