Key information

  • The job of an advocate is to hear what matters to you, and make sure adults listen to you. View our brochure here.
  • It’s important for you to be listened to, and that adults are involving you in decisions about your life.
  • Remember, you have rights. Visit the Your rights page.
  • How to contact your Advocates.

Information Brochure

This brochure can be downloaded, printed, and shared as needed by you, your carers, workers, and any other services supporting children and young people in care.

Participation and Empowerment Strategy

DECYP’s Participation and Empowerment Strategy is being developed in partnership with children, young people, parents, carers and the DECYP workforce.

About advocacy

An advocate listens to what matters to you, and makes sure adults listen to you.

An advocate can also help you to understand how the Child Safety Service works in Tasmania.

Hearing your ideas on how the Child Safety Service can work better for children is important. This is called systemic advocacy and it is about improving the way services work to meet your needs.  

How can an advocate support you?

The advocates job is to:

  • make sure you are part of decisions about you
  • help you to understand your rights in care
  • listen to you if your rights are not being upheld
  • support you to speak up, or speak up for you
  • help you to understand how the Child Safety Service works
  • listen to your ideas about how Child Safety Service can work better for you
  • give advice to the bosses of Child Safety Service about how the service can best meet your needs.

Contact your advocate

Next steps for young people, steps for professionals/Care Team members, and how to make a complaint about the Child Safety Service.

Give the Child Advocates your feedback

Let us know what you thought of our Advocates by either following this link: Feedback on Child Advocacy Services or scanning the QR code. (Include Image 3 of QR code)

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  1. Key information
  2. About advocacy
  3. How can an advocate support you?

Safe children

  1. Need help now?
  2. Report a concern
  3. Guide to Tasmania’s child safety services
    1. Reporting concerns about the safety or wellbeing of a child
    2. Your rights as a child or young person in care
    3. Our Child Safety Approach
    4. Child Safety Service Care Teams
    5. The role of the Court in keeping children and young people safe
    6. Keeping children and young people connected with family
    7. Supporting families to keep their children safe and well at home
    8. Bringing Baby Home Program
    9. Guardianship transfer for children in Out of Home Care
    10. What is Out of Home Care?
    11. Stability and permanency in Out of Home Care
    12. Returning to your family after being in care
    13. Child Advocates for Out of Home Care
      1. Youth Voice Survey
      2. Contact your Advocates
  4. Keeping children safe through safeguarding
  5. Youth justice services
  6. Adoptions in Tasmania
  7. Out of Home Care in Tasmania
  8. Housing Options for Children and Young People

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