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The Department of Social Services hosts this website and the department will manage it in accordance with the Guidance on Caretaker Conventions.
Families and Children
The Department of Social Services helps to support families and children through programs and services as well as benefits and payments. Further support is provided through grants and funding for organisations providing services for families. There’s help for families with the cost of raising children (Family Tax Benefit), new parents (Paid Parental Leave and Dad and Partner Pay), young people leaving formal care (through Transition to Independent Living Allowance) and more programs and services.
The Department also helps to support Australians' mental health.
Budget 2022-23 includes a number of measures to improve the wellbeing of individuals and families in Australian communities.
Continue reading Budget 2022-23
On Friday 10 December, 2021, the Minister for Families and Social Services, Senator the Hon Anne Ruston, hosted the Ministers’ Redress Scheme Governance Board (Board) meeting of relevant Ministers with responsibility for the National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse (the Scheme) in their state or territory.
Continue reading Ministers Redress Scheme Governance Board Communique
