PSA to Host Symposium this Saturday on CYF Review

(Co-hosted by the Department of Social Practice, Unitec)

How can CYFs do better for vulnerable children? A government review of CYFs by the Paula Rebstock-led panel will soon recommend changes.

The Public Service Association’s Social Workers Action Network are holding a symposium to provide an opportunity for the social work community and interfacing professions who have not been consulted or provided an opportunity to engage by the panel to have their say on CYF, social work collaboration and child protection in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Unitec’s Department of Social Practice is co-hosting the event as part of its mission to advance the social work profession.

The PSA and Unitec are taking a positive and proactive approach and providing a forum to get these important voices heard.

The symposium will feature a range of keynote speakers from those with personal experience of CYF care, the PSA, social work academics and the profession’s leaders, as well as a panel discussion.

Some speakers are: Mike O’Brien, David McNabb, Lucy Sandford Reed, Paora Crawford-Moyle, Liz Beddoe, Deb Stanfield, and CYF delegates from the PSA.

The symposium will gather a set of proceedings from the symposium to inform the panel and the public.

WHEN: Saturday 8 August, 10am-4:30pm

WHERE: Unitec Waitakere Campus, lecture theatre B007, 5 Ratanui Street Henderson, Auckland

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