Resources for carers
This page contains resources like carer handbooks, forms and checks to assist our existing foster and kinship carers.
Forms and templates
Approved Carer Approval (ACA):
The renewal of ACAs needs to occur at least every three years, in line with the expiry of your Working With Vulnerable People registration. Completion of these forms are required as part of this process.
- Link to CYPS Child Protection Clearance form
- Link to CYPS Child Protection Clearance form - additional adult
- Link to Police check
- Link to Suitability Criteria
- Link to First Aid Training
Publications and resources
- Carer Handbook – Foster and Kinship
- 2022-2023 Carer Subsidy Guide
- Financial Support Guide
- Carer Snapshot
- Best Practice Publication
- Carer Survey
- Guiding Legislation Booklet
- ACT Together Organisational Chart to Program Manager Level - 11 January 2023
- Reportable Conduct Webinar
- Mileage claim form
- Caring for an Aboriginal Child – Videos by Selina Walker, Ngunnawal Woman and Kinship Carer
