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Carer news


  • For children and young people
  • For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families
  • For multicultural families
  • For family-based carers
    • Caring basics
    • Who can say OK?
    • Resources for carers
    • Carer community
      • Caring Together
      • Trauma training
      • Kinship Care Program Learning and Development
      • Foster and Kinship Carer Week 2024
      • News
        • Archive
    • Carers Voice
  • For service providers
  • Adoption processes
  • Requests for information
  • Support services directory
  • Reforms to provide stronger safeguards for South Australian children

    30/04/2025
  • Cricket clinic free to girls in care

    24/03/2025
  • VR technology transforms carer training in SA

    19/03/2025
  • Carers to receive March Read to Me book packs

    12/03/2025
  • Supporting sibling relationships

    07/03/2025
  • Paving the way to a strong relationship with your child

    06/03/2025
  • Learning sessions for kinship carers across SA

    05/03/2025
  • Read the latest edition of Caring Together

    04/03/2025

View complete archive of carer news.


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