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Family Preservation contact information

For all enquiries please email: FamilyPreservation@dcj.nsw.gov.au

To receive our communications and invitations you can follow the link below. 

Each month, Family Preservation and Child Protection hold a forum for all family preservation service providers, and providers interested in delivering family preservation services in the future. 

The sector forums generally occur on the first Wednesday of every month from 9:30am to 10:30am. Please subscribe to our mailing list above to receive an invitation.

Forum updates are published below. The information published is point in time and is subject to change. DCJ continues to work closely with stakeholders to recommission Family Preservation services.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) (PDF, 192.1 KB) have been developed to assist in understanding the future Family Preservation Program and further recommissioning activities. The FAQs will continue to be updated as recommissioning progresses. 

Family Preservation Sector forum – Special briefing – 5 February 2025

The format for the February Forum was a briefing on the Family Preservation foundational elements paper (PDF, 367.5 KB), released in December 2024.

See February Forum slides (PDF, 1.1 MB) and Special briefing recording.

Family Preservation Sector forum – 4 December 2024

See December Sector Forum Slides (PDF, 550.0 KB) (PDF, 550.0 KB).

Key points:

• We are working closely with the Minister and senior leadership to finalise pending design elements of the new Family Preservation program, before the end of the year.
• DCJ has in principle approval to vary Family Preservation contracts for a further 9 months, from 1 July 2025 to 31 March 2026. The contracts variations will also include new clauses so that providers and DCJ can best support clients, providers and their staff, throughout the transition to the new service system.
• Early in the new year and ahead of procurement, we will communicate on decisions about Family Preservation program funding, including unit costs and the resource allocation model.

Family Preservation Sector forum – 6 November 2024

See November Sector Forum Slides (PDF, 901.7 KB) and Family preservation recommissioning update (PDF, 176.1 KB).

Key points:

• A number of DCJ organisational structure and senior executive changes have occurred. Please see the summary update (PDF, 176.1 KB) for further details.
• DCJ aims to publish a response to the Redesigning Family Preservation in NSW Discussion Paper (PDF, 1.5 MB) before the Christmas/New Year break.
• The interim approach to assessing risk in child protection commenced on 12 September 2024, with a 60-day grace period. As of 11 November 2024, risk assessments will no longer be available for use by DCJ caseworkers and only the Family Based Assessment (FBA) will be used.