New Child Safety centre to keep Logan children safe
Published Tuesday, 14 August, 2007 at 11:00 AM
Minister for Child Safety
The Honourable Desley Boyle
A new Child Safety Service Centre at Loganlea is helping to keep Logan’s vulnerable children and young people safe.
Child Safety Minister Desley Boyle and Member for Waterford Evan Moorhead officially opened the Loganlea centre at Juers St today before having lunch with local foster carers at Logan Diggers club.
“This new centre is the base for frontline staff who work with children who have been abused or neglected, or are at risk of being harmed,” Ms Boyle said.
“In the 2005–06 financial year there were 2237 reported notifications of harm, or risk of harm to children and young people in Logan (including Loganlea, Woodridge and Logan Central child safety service centres),” Ms Boyle said.
“Of those notifications, there were 983 confirmed cases of harm or risk of harm.”
Mr Moorhead said the Loganlea Child Safety Service Centre had been sharing space with the Logan Central and Woodridge centres at Ewing Rd.
“The new Loganlea centre has been purpose-built for Child Safety and the State Government has spent $800,000 on its fit-out to make it comfortable for staff and welcoming for children, parents and foster carers to visit.
“There’s plenty of room for the 29 staff who work here now and room for growth in the future,” Mr Moorhead said.
“There is a children’s play area, a dedicated room for foster and kinship carers to meet among themselves, family and meeting rooms and a modern and secure reception area.”
“It’s in a good position, close to other support services and on a bus route so it’s easy to access,” Mr Moorhead said.
The Loganlea centre looks after the suburbs of Rochedale South, Priestdale, Springwood, Daisy Hill, Shailer Park, Cornubia, Carbrook, Loganholme, Tanah Merah, Meadowbrook, Loganlea and Waterford West.
Staff moved into the Loganlea Child Safety Service Centre in May and an Aboriginal smoking ceremony was held at the centre in July to cleanse the land the centre was built on and mark the commencement of a new phase.
The ceremony was approved by the traditional owners of the land, the Yungambeh Elders, and was held by Elders Reverend Jenny Thompson (Aunty Jenny), Betty McGrady and Wayne Saunders from the Nutcha Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation, which provides advice to the Department of Child Safety on Indigenous children-in-care.
The new Loganlea CSSC is part of the Department of Child Safety’s $30 million plan to improve offices across Queensland.
Staff at the Woodridge centre are also expected to move into new premises at Woodridge later this year, which will give the Logan Central staff room to expand in the Ewing Rd space.
Other new service centres to be officially opened in coming months include Caloundra, Nerang, Kingaroy and Gladstone.
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Media contact: 3224 7477
14 August 2007
Child Safety Minister Desley Boyle and Member for Waterford Evan Moorhead officially opened the Loganlea centre at Juers St today before having lunch with local foster carers at Logan Diggers club.
“This new centre is the base for frontline staff who work with children who have been abused or neglected, or are at risk of being harmed,” Ms Boyle said.
“In the 2005–06 financial year there were 2237 reported notifications of harm, or risk of harm to children and young people in Logan (including Loganlea, Woodridge and Logan Central child safety service centres),” Ms Boyle said.
“Of those notifications, there were 983 confirmed cases of harm or risk of harm.”
Mr Moorhead said the Loganlea Child Safety Service Centre had been sharing space with the Logan Central and Woodridge centres at Ewing Rd.
“The new Loganlea centre has been purpose-built for Child Safety and the State Government has spent $800,000 on its fit-out to make it comfortable for staff and welcoming for children, parents and foster carers to visit.
“There’s plenty of room for the 29 staff who work here now and room for growth in the future,” Mr Moorhead said.
“There is a children’s play area, a dedicated room for foster and kinship carers to meet among themselves, family and meeting rooms and a modern and secure reception area.”
“It’s in a good position, close to other support services and on a bus route so it’s easy to access,” Mr Moorhead said.
The Loganlea centre looks after the suburbs of Rochedale South, Priestdale, Springwood, Daisy Hill, Shailer Park, Cornubia, Carbrook, Loganholme, Tanah Merah, Meadowbrook, Loganlea and Waterford West.
Staff moved into the Loganlea Child Safety Service Centre in May and an Aboriginal smoking ceremony was held at the centre in July to cleanse the land the centre was built on and mark the commencement of a new phase.
The ceremony was approved by the traditional owners of the land, the Yungambeh Elders, and was held by Elders Reverend Jenny Thompson (Aunty Jenny), Betty McGrady and Wayne Saunders from the Nutcha Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation, which provides advice to the Department of Child Safety on Indigenous children-in-care.
The new Loganlea CSSC is part of the Department of Child Safety’s $30 million plan to improve offices across Queensland.
Staff at the Woodridge centre are also expected to move into new premises at Woodridge later this year, which will give the Logan Central staff room to expand in the Ewing Rd space.
Other new service centres to be officially opened in coming months include Caloundra, Nerang, Kingaroy and Gladstone.
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Media contact: 3224 7477
14 August 2007