Budget welcome, but targeted funding needed to address long-term challenges facing child protection system
Berry Street has welcomed the 2019-20 Victorian Budget, which provides $1.45 billion for vital child protection and family services programs and initiatives.
NDIS forcing children with disability into child protection system
Experts have urged both major parties to fix a failure of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, which is forcing children with autism and intellectual disabilities into the child protection sys
EnergyAustralia launches program to cut charities’ electricity bills
EnergyAustralia, one of the country’s largest energy retailers, today announced an energy-efficiency program aimed at cutting charities’ electricity bills by up to half, backed by an estimated $15
Berry Street in Partnership with ABC Radio Victoria deliver Christmas to thousands of Victoria’s most vulnerable
Thousands of children and young people from disadvantaged backgrounds across Victoria received a special surprise on Christmas day, thanks to over 10,000 gifts donated to Berry Street through the A
Berry Street‘s Comments On The Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses To Child Sexual Abuse
Berry Street commends the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, which concluded today, for the way they have without fear or favour exposed the depth and extent of ch
Help vulnerable Victorian children to heal this Christmas
According to the latest statistics from the Australian Institute of Family Studies, almost 3,000 Victorian children were reported to Child Protection as being impacted by family violence within a 1
Help make it a Merry Christmas for Vulnerable Victorian Children
For most of us, Christmas is a time of joy and celebration with loved ones. But for children who have experienced violence, abuse and neglect, Christmas can be a time of fear and anxiety.
Caring for children is our collective responsibility
A questionnaire around raising children carried out by Berry Street, Victoria’s largest independent child and family services organisation, has found that many Australians think that children are m
