17 June 2026 updates

Changes have been made to the following sections:

Resources Practice guides (88 pages)
Resources Handouts (70 pages)
Resources Guidelines (8 pages)
Forms & templates Forms (2 pages)
Procedures Provide and review care (1 page)
Procedures Support a child in care (1 page)

Kinship carer initial assessment report guidelines

Changed from practice guide to guideline.
Kinship carer initial assessment report guidelines

Changed from practice guide to guideline.
Kinship carer renewal assessment report guidelines

Changed from practice guide to guideline.
Kinship carer renewal assessment report guidelines

Changed from practice guide to guideline.
Guidelines for completing an assessment report—Initial approval only

Changed from practice guide to guideline.
Guidelines for completing an assessment report—Initial approval only

Changed from practice guide to guideline.
Guidelines for completing an assessment report—Renewal of approval

Changed from practice guide to guideline.
Guidelines for completing an assessment report—Renewal of approval

Changed from practice guide to guideline.

Provisional assessment and approval

Removed reference to a statewide protocol that does not exist.

Case planning

Maintenance.

Practice guides Resources

Termination of pregnancy - supporting young people

Conducting a family needs assessment

Planning processes and joint action plans for housing assistance

Housing needs and joint action planning

Working with hostility and aggression in child protection

Decision making for reunification

Home visits to families

Supporting education outcomes for children in care

Positive behaviour support and managing high risk behaviour

Court request for information - domestic violence orders (section 55)

Case notes

Culturally capable behaviours

Protocol between the Family Court of Australia and the Federal Magistrates Court of Australia and the Department of Child Safety Queensland

Using the collaborative assessment planning tool at intake

Process for expiring child protection orders

Family contact for children in care

Working with Refugees A guide for Social Workers

The role of a support person

Collaborative assessment and planning framework - worry statements

Collaborative assessment and planning framework

Queensland civil and administrative tribunal - when a review application is filed

Supporting children and young people with diverse SOGIE-SC

Separate representative access to Child Safety information

Collaborative assessment and planning framework - action steps and non-negotiables

Decision making at intake

Safety and support networks and high intensity responses

Sad news sorry business

Child health passports

Child health passports

Assessment of an application to have a child reside with a female prisoner

Cumulative harm

Placing a child with another entity 82(1)(f) assessment guide

Strengths of Australian Aboriginal cultural practices in family life and child rearing

Communicating with the notifier

Gaining knowledge about parental mental illness

Children with sexual abuse histories

Reviewable decisions

Supporting the breastfeeding of children in care

Information sharing: assessment and service connect

Alcohol and other drugs testing

Support levels and behaviour characteristics

Disability types, diagnosis and impairment table

Victim Assist Queensland

Queensland Health discharge escalation pathway

Collaborative assessment and planning framework - goal statements

Youth justice concepts and definitions

Issues for the safety and wellbeing of children in families with multiple and complex problems

Infants at high risk

School disciplinary absence

Home visits to children in care

Collaborative assessment and planning framework - harm statements

Legislative provisions in relation to aboriginal and torres strait islander children

Overview of case planning

Develop a suicide and non-suicidal self-injury risk management plan

NDIS planning meetings: example questions

End of life decision making guide

Offer support to the family

High risk teams and Child Safety

Collaborative assessment and planning framework - protection belonging strengths resources statement

Bias in child protection decision making

Working with young people at high risk

Torres Strait Islander traditional child rearing practice

Assess a proposed guardian

Information sharing for domestic and family violence

Paternity testing

Case consultation process

Physical and cognitive developmental milestones

Complex/extreme support needs and care arrangement matching

A GP & Allied Health Professional’s guide to the NDIS

Domestic and family violence – protecting identifying information in court processes

Funerals and memorial services

Foundational elements

Assess harm and risk of harm

Power, privilege and use of self in child protection

Participation of children and young people in decision making

Provisional approval assessment guidelines

Palliative care and end of life decision making

Recording a significant DFV threat alert in Unify