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Services and support
Find information on how to get help and support for domestic, family and sexual violence, understand your rights and responsibilities as a parent or guardian, information on the adoption and fostering process, get advice on caring for and protecting children and find contacts for support services and funded programs.
How to get help, support, emergency housing, understanding types of violence and how to stay safe.
Understand your legal rights, our commitment to safety, allowances and apply for scholarships.
What it is, what's involved, how to apply, rights and responsibilities, legal and financial support.
We are committed to cultural diversity and supporting people from multicultural backgrounds.
Parental responsibility and rights, parenting and baby care tips and how to keep children safe.
Contact list of services and support and information about DCJ funded programs.
Going to Children's Court, criminal offences relating to kids, victim services, finding legal help.
Reporting at risk child, signs of abuse and neglect, child protection laws and family preservation.
Why a caseworker visits, risk assessment, why a child goes in to care, keeping families together.
Adopting a child, about adoption for birth parents and finding information on past adoptions.
Becoming a child's guardian, guardianship orders and support for guardians.
Children and young people in care, types of care, case planning, restoration and leaving care.
The NDIS is an Australia-wide scheme, supporting people with permanent and significant disability.
Real stories of young children and families working alongside DCJ child protection practitioners.
Provides leadership, oversight and advice on women's safety policy development and law reform.
Programs offering support for children, young people and families and how to find it.
TEI provides support for children, young people, families and communities.
Independent Review of Aboriginal Children and Young People in Out-of-Home Care in NSW.
Improving the decision-making processes in the NSW child protection and out of home care system.
Aboriginal children and young people deserve to grow up connected to their culture, Country and kin.
We acknowledge Aboriginal people as the First Nations Peoples of NSW and pay our respects to Elders past, present, and future.
Informed by lessons of the past, Department of Communities and Justice is improving how we work with Aboriginal people and communities. We listen and learn from the knowledge, strength and resilience of Stolen Generations Survivors, Aboriginal Elders and Aboriginal communities.
You can access our apology to the Stolen Generations.