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Child Advocate

ACT – RESPECT – INCLUDE – EMPOWER

Hi and welcome to this page for all children and young people in foster, kinship and residential care in Tasmania.

In the links below, you can find out all you need to know about your rights in care and the Child Advocate service. What is advocacy?

Contact details:

Sonya Pringle-Jones – Child Advocate

Phone icon 0419 970 181 / 1800 549 725

Email icom child.advocate@decyp.tas.gov.au

Website address icon communities.tas.gov.au/childadvocate

Messenger Icon child.advocate.tas

Mail post or email icon GPO Box 169, HOBART, TAS

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About Us

The new Department for Education, Children and Young People was established on 1 October 2022. Our Department is responsible for Child Safety, Youth Justice, Public Education, Out of Home Care, Libraries and Child and Family Learning Centres.

  • Address : GPO Box 169 Hobart TAS 7001

  • Phone : 1800 816 057

  • Email : ServiceCentre@decyp.tas.gov.au

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