Foster and kinship carers’ vital contribution to supporting South Australia’s most vulnerable children and young people is at the heart of a new framework honouring the role of family-based carers.

Up to 100 scholarships will be offered to primary and secondary school-aged children and young people in care, in a new, innovative partnership between the State Government and Catholic Education South Australia.

Better, more specialised support for kinship carers of Aboriginal children and young people is the focus of a new $3 million State Government program.

Children and young people living in residential care will benefit from a new, trauma-informed, therapeutic model of care – with the aim of better supporting, empowering and engaging our most vulnerable young South Australians.