ooops ... the terrirory parliaments, ACT and NT,
are unicameral ... sorry.

i suggest you write directly to the Minister.

the Minister for DoCS in NSW is:

Hon Ms Linda Burney,
Minister for Community Services
Level 30 Governor Macquarie Tower,
1 Farrer Place,
SYDNEY NSW 2000

http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/Prod/Parlment/Members.nsf/3b53a75368ba00b4ca256fe2001c9664/8d837093fe30ec35ca256cfa0011aa15!OpenDocument

Ms Burney is a very successful, no nonsense Wiradjuri woman
(of Aboriginal descent ... my grandaughter is Wiradjuri).

when i worked for DoCS, and other gov departments,
everybody in the office drops what they're doing
immediately a "ministerial" comes in.

first priority in any government office
is to attend to queries from the relevant Minister.

I asked Linda Burney to help some children and got a letter back from Jenny Mason (D-G DoCS) saying Linda had requested she reply to me.

It was about a transition that was handled so badly that a two year old child was terrified of leaving me. Jenny wrote back thanking me for my support of the transfer and suggested I take up an offer of counseling. It is 5 months later and now I am in turn terrified for the little girl. DoCS are refusing to send any staff to see if she is okay.

There is only one person within DoCS that could spot the child in a lineup.

DoCS stated some policy change was made due to that transfer being so bad and the Ombudsman’s office supported my complaint. What everyone did was paperwork while ignoring the small individual that had suffered.

The conclusion, if the NGO say she is okay, she is okay.

I think DoCS here are scared of Life Without Barriers. LWB drove the transfer and were extremely callous. I would imagine organizations that brazen consider themselves beyond worrying about policy and certainly were confident in there standing with DoCS; telling their carers to not speak to DoCS staff.

But now all the children will go to NGO’s in NSW and we have a government department working under the Care and Protection Act that appears too afraid to help children. The transfer went against several NSW Children’s Guardian policies and I am yet to convince them to do anything. But no matter how an NGO performs it appears nothing can be done to them.

I don’t think we can have organizations that are untouchable caring for any children.

It is a simple thing I ask, I just want someone that knew the child to go see if she is okay. I am not asking for any information about her I only want to know DoCS will go do what they are supposed to.

I asked Linda Burney again recently to please get this one caseworker to go see, I heard nothing back.