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Dear Reader,

The debate about the adverse effects of social media on children and young people has been raging for some time now. The adverse effects are now well documented and talked about across our networks.

The end point of the debate is that the Australian Government has passed laws restricting access to social media based on age. The implementation of these restrictions is one more strategy designed to protect our children and young people from physical and/or emotional harm.

There will, no doubt, be some teething problems. However, the onus is on the media companies to do the right thing by our children and young people and implement the laws.

This statement issued by the Australian Government will assist you to understand the detail.

Cheers,
Anne McLeish
Director

Dear Kinship Carers,

Australia’s efforts to restrict access by children to social media has featured in international news. Commentators are applauding our efforts to protect children from online over use and abuse.

The Australian Federal Police are also the subject of international attention with their quality resources being commended, and in some cases even used, by other countries.

Here is more easily digested advice coming from within Australia. We hope you find this resource useful.

Cheers,
Anne McLeish
Director

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

KCV is pleased to present you with the latest of our magazines in the carer wellbeing series.  This one is about nutrition, as are others of our magazines. However, this one concentrates on nutrition that is appropriate as we get older – as we all are!

The book was launched at a nutrition seminar in Dandenong yesterday and was well received.  I commend it to you.

Cheers,
Anne McLeish
Director

Amendments to the Children, Youth and Families Act 2005 (the Act) introduced into the Victorian Parliament yesterday (29/10/25) will restore key protections for children which were removed from the Act in 2016 by the then Government.

Dear Carers,

We are pleased to present an overview of some of the programs offered by the Victorian Government. Some of them will be familiar to you but others may not.

Please read through them all and follow them up if you think there is even a remote possibility of achieving the sort of assistance you might need.

Cheers
Anne McLeish
Director