Twelve providers were successful in the recent general residential care placement tender to provide up to an additional 80 placements throughout the state.
Residential care services
The Department for Child Protection (DCP) is proud to be working with our partners to continue transforming our non-family-based care services throughout South Australia.
Twelve providers were successful in the recent general residential care placement tender to provide up to an additional 80 placements throughout the state.
The successful respondents were:
- ac.care (Mt Gambier)
- Aboriginal Family Support Services (AFSS) (Northern and Southern Adelaide)
- Baptist Care SA (Mount Gambier and Northern Adelaide)
- Centacare Catholic Country SA (Port Lincoln)
- HenderCare (Northern and Southern Adelaide and Murray Bridge)
- Infinity Community Solutions (Southern Adelaide)
- Junction Australia (Adelaide Hills and Southern Adelaide)
- Lifestyle Solutions (Northern Adelaide)
- Life Without Barriers (Northern Adelaide and Adelaide Hills)
- SYC (Eastern Adelaide)
- Uniting Country SA (Port Pirie)
- Uniting Communities (Northern Adelaide)
Providers are sourcing properties and care teams and working towards providing caring, therapeutic, culturally appropriate, and responsive home-like environments for children and young people.
Children and young people are being assessed to ensure they are matched in a way that helps them develop and thrive, and maintains placement stability.
Transition planning is well underway with 19 children and young people already successfully transitioned into their new placements.