In this world of cyber threats, I want to bring to your attention a notification we sent out a little earlier this week about a company ‘masquerading’ as FRSA and offering the FRSA Conference delegate list, with contacts, for sale. Firstly, I wanted to assure all readers that we view your privacy as extremely important and would never use any of your personal information in a way other than what you have given us permission to do. In addition, I did want to advise you to ignore any offer/s made to you to purchase delegate lists from the FRSA Conference, or any other FRSA event for that matter. They will always be bogus.
There is no Parliamentary/Government news section in the eBulletin this week given we are in the middle of a Federal Election campaign and the Government public service is in caretaker mode. During this time Government Departments can continue on with ‘work in progress’. As such, you will see underneath ‘Get involved’ a ‘call to action’ for those organisations delivering the Department of Social Services (DSS) funded FaRs and SFVS programs to provide assistance to the evaluators – Allen & Clarke – to recruit evaluation participants who are past and/or current recipients of your FaRS/SFVS services. I do know that many organisations are attempting to work with Allen & Clarke in this phase of the evaluation as best they can but if you have further capacity or questions, or you are yet to engage and eager, do reach out to them. See below for more detail.
We did highlight for readers in the previous eBulletin that the new FDRP regulations were coming into effect on 1 April 2025. We are aware that the new regulations are having a practice impact for service providers of family law services especially regarding the process of intake and assessment. It is our intention to convene a FRSA Member network conversation to encourage members to share how they are approaching the matter under the revised FDRP regulations (& indeed any other matters they may wish to talk about). We will send out that invite directly through our Member Alert communication. In addition, following on from conversations with AGD staff about some of these matters, they did produce an ‘information sheet’ that they have asked us to share with our network.
The FRSA National Conference 19-22 May is looming large in our work schedule over the coming weeks. We are delighted that delegates attending can secure CPD/OPD points from Community Work Australia and/or the Australian Counselling Association. And please don’t forget to check out the pre-Conference Workshop options as well – even if you have already registered for the Conference, you can always add a workshop on. Also – you don’t need to be registered for the whole Conference event to attend the workshops so, this might interest day trippers. If you haven’t registered – here’s the link.
Until the next edition of the eBulletin – I wish you a Happy Easter and Happy School holiday break/season.
