Our priorities

• Strategic Plan

• Provides the department's vision, purpose, objectives, strategies and performance indicators and demonstrates how we contribute to the government's objectives for the community.

• Service delivery statements (PDF)

• In addition to financial information for the budget year, these statements provide information on the department's objectives and performance.

• Out-of-home care and transition services
• Therapeutic supports

Key deliverables:

• Facilitate and implement child protection and family support reforms in collaboration with other agencies.
• Fund and support these services delivered by carers and non-government organisations.
• Facilitate implementation of these supports for children and young people in out-of-home care.

• Child protection and family support reforms
• Strengths based, safety oriented child protection practice framework
• Child protection services

Key deliverables:

• Deliver high-quality statutory child protection services.

• Child and family, and domestic and family violence services

Priority: To prioritise the prevention of domestic, family and sexual violence (DFSV) before it begins, provide services for early intervention for individuals, families and young people, and support the safety, recovery and healing of victim-survivors while holding persons using violence accountable.

Key deliverables:

• Roll out a new 24/7 locally based domestic and family violence (DFV) networked hub in North Queensland, providing better immediate responses to victim-survivors and pathways to healing and recovery.
• Deliver on the election commitment to establish 3 additional Hope Hubs. The first new Hope Hub opened at Orion Springfield Central in June 2026, the Kawana Hope Hub will open in September 2026, and a final regional Hope Hub will be operational mid-2027.
• Work in partnership with our peak bodies, service providers and other government agencies to implement Safer Families, Safer Communities—A domestic and family violence reform strategy for Queensland.
• Strengthen DFV laws to deliver immediate protection to victim-survivors and the management of high-risk offenders.
• Support place-based DFSV prevention by activating local communities.

• Report scheduled to be handed down in December 2017

Priority: Actioning initiatives arising from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and other review bodies.

Key deliverable:

• Respond to relevant matters and recommendations from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and other review bodies.

• Our performance - Child safety

• This site provides timely and accessible performance data about the family support and child protection system.