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Housing Plus shared Family and Community Services NSW's post.

Saturday June 16th

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Family and Community Services NSW

FACS is aware of an issue where calls are not connecting to the Child Protection Helpline.

FACS is urgently working with its service provider to resolve the issue.

Mandatory reporters are encouraged to submit urgent child protection reports through e-Reporting: reporter.childstory.nsw.gov.au/s/

FACS will immediately notify the public via Twitter, Facebook and its website when this is...

Housing Plus

Wednesday June 13th

Housing Plus welcomes new laws aimed at improving access to victims support. This includes:

- Making it easier for some victims to claim financial assistance, particularly victims of domestic violence who may face barriers reporting crimes to police;

- Facilitating faster and better access to counselling, particularly in rural and regional areas;

- Providing greater support for family members of homicide victims by increasing the maximum amount payable for funeral expenses from $8,000 to $9,500; and

- Ensuring immediate family members of homicide victims are given recognition under the Act, by ensuring spouses, partners and children (under the age of 18) of homicide victims are eligible for recognition payments even when they weren’t financially dependent on the deceased at the time of death.

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New laws improve victim support

justice.nsw.gov.au

New laws introduced today will make it faster and easier for victims of crime and their families to access financial assistance and counselling, particularly those impacted by domestic violence and homicide.