YACWA has recently completed two reviews into legislation: The Young Offenders Act and The Children and Community Services Act, both of which cover all things youth justice and child protection.
This submission will provide a series of recommendations to Government for next year's budget that build on members feedback through areas identified in responses to our Members Survey, this consultation paper, and previous areas of YACWAs work.
The aim of the summit is to bring multicultural young people to discuss issues important to them, create solutions and to directly express their opinions to politicians and other decision makers.
The Youth in Community Services project aims to discover what support the community services sector needs to better engage young people in the design, procurement, delivery and evaluation of community services.
On Tuesday May 3 2016, the Federal Government announced its proposed budget. YACWA has conducted a thorough analysis of the available information, and extracted the key commitments and measures that we believe will have a direct impact on young people and the workforce supporting them in Western Australia.
Seven young Western Australians aged between 18 and 24 years have now been selected and have the opportunity to participate in an exchange program between Hong Kong and Western Australia in October 2016 and February 2017.
