Dear Friends and Colleagues,

GPV/KCV is pleased to launch its first video talk. This subject is one already causing chat amongst kinship carers. It is expected that this video will also foster the sorts of conversations that lead to shared and positive outcomes from each chat we have – no matter with whom or where or about what.

Cheers,
Anne McLeish OAM
Director

GPV/KCV is pleased to launch its video on positive discipline. It is a feature in the GPV/KCV campaign to ensure that physical punishment of children is made illegal across Australia.

The video is recommended as a gentle reminder that positive discipline can work. The video should be viewed in conjunction with reading written materials on positive discipline.

Non-physical types of discipline for children and young people (booklet)
Reasons not to hit children (article)

GPV/KCV commends signing the petition to have physical punishment made illegal across Australia.

https://www.change.org/p/end-physical-punishment-of-children-protect-australian-children

This video was developed and is owned by End Physical Punishment of Australian Children working group (EPPAC) & Parenting and Families Research Alliance (PAFRA ). The video is part of the national campaign to abolish physical punishment of children in Australia.

In this video/podcast Director of Kinship Carers Victoria, Anne McLeish, and lawyer Fleur Ward talk about the complex and vexed issue of family reunification for carer families.

They speak in detail about the reunification provisions in the Children, Youth and Families Act (Vic) and how the current one-size-fits-all foundation of these provisions could mean that they are not serving their intended purpose. The rights of carers to access information contained in children’s court orders is also clarified.