Child Safety Seniors and Disability Services

DFSDSCS015

Monday 14 April 2025 (E. Australia Standard Time)

Thursday 05 June 2025 02:00 PM (E. Australia Standard Time) CLOSED

Thursday 29 May 2025 02:00 PM (E. Australia Standard Time)

Thursday 03 July 2025 (E. Australia Standard Time)

Child Safety Seniors and Disability Services

119 Charlotte St
Brisbane City, Queensland 4000
Australia

https://www.dcssds.qld.gov.au/

The department's vision is for Queensland’s children, young people, seniors, carers and people with disability to be safe, empowered in their families, communities and culture and thriving socially and economically

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The Department of Families, Seniors, Disability Services and Child Safety (the department) is seeking Expressions of Interest (EOI) from service providers interested in delivering family-based care services under the new Family Based Care (FBC) Services Investment Specification. The aim of this EOI is to gauge market interest in delivering one, or a number of the new service types across Queensland, and provide the department with information to support investment mapping and planning and to inform where further market engagement and development is required.

This EOI forms part of the departments’ staged transition of Family Based Care service types from existing Child Protection (Placement Services) investment specification to the new FBC Services Investment Specification. The FBC Services Investment Specification includes five new service types to deliver targeted and more specific services aimed to increase the number of foster and kinship carers and deliver greater support to carer households, and a sixth new service type – Specialist Family Based Care, is included to help explore professional models of family based care (not subject to this EOI). New service offerings aim to ensure all carers have access to the support they need to provide care to children and young people. New service types include a base and brokerage funding component, to better and more flexibly support the activities of finding and assessing carers and to respond to the changing needs of carer households, including supporting the costs of delivering care. The new service types are:

1. Connecting Kin (T210)

2. Equipping Kin (T211)

3. Supporting Kin (T212)

4. Foster Care Recruitment (T213)

5. Supporting Foster Care (T214)

6. Specialist Family Based Care (T215).

Refer to attached Expression of Interest (EOI) and subsequent attachments.

Refer to attached Expression of Interest (EOI) and subsequent attachments.

• Queensland
  1: Brisbane
  2: Central West
  3: Darling Downs
  4: Far North
  5: Fitzroy
  6: Gold Coast
  7: Mackay
  8: North West
  9: Northern
  10: Offshore (QLD)
  11: South West
  12: Sunshine Coast
  13: West Moreton
  14: Wide Bay-Burnett

All Regions of Service locations are within Australia.

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Please note: The following addendum has been recently added.

1. Added: (Addendum) DFSDSCS015_Expression of Interest_Addendum 1.pdf

Please consider this addendum when responding.

Please note: The following addenda have been recently added.

1. Added: (Addendum) DFSDSCS015_Expression of Interest_Addendum 2.pdf

2. Added: (Addendum) DFSDSCS015_Expression of Interest_Addendum 3.pdf

3. Added: (Addendum) FBC Industry Briefing Presentation_BMB Region_29 April 2025.pdf

4. Added: (Addendum) FBC Transition of Investment Industry Briefing Presentation_STATEWIDE_22 April 2025.pdf

5. Added: (Addendum) FBC Industry Briefing Presentation_SW Region_28 April 2025.pdf

Please consider these addenda when responding.

Please note: The following addenda have been recently added.

1. Added: (Addendum) DFSDSCS015_Expression of Interest_Addendum 4.pdf

2. Added: (Addendum) DFSDSCS015_Expression of Interest_Addendum 5.pdf

3. Added: (Addendum) FBC Industry Briefing Presentation_SE Region_30 April 2025.pdf

Please consider these addenda when responding.

Please note: The following addenda have been recently added.

1. Added: (Addendum) DFSDSCS015_Expression of Interest_Addendum 6.pdf

2. Added: (Addendum) FBC Industry Briefing Presentation_SCC Region_6 May 2025.pdf

3. Added: (Addendum) DFSDSCS015_Expression of Interest_Addendum 7.pdf

4. Added: (Addendum) DFSDSCS015_Expression of Interest_Addendum 8.pdf

5. Added: (Addendum) FBC Industry Briefing Presentation_FNQ Region 7 May 2025.pdf

Please consider these addenda when responding.

Please note: The following addenda have been recently added.

1. Added: (Addendum) DFSDSCS015_Expression of Interest_Addendum 9.pdf

2. Added: (Addendum) DFSDSCS015_Expression of Interest_Addendum 10.pdf

3. Added: (Addendum) DFSDSCS015_Expression of Interest_Addendum 11.pdf

4. Added: (Addendum) FBC Industry Briefing Presentation_NQ Region Townsville 8 May 2025.pdf

5. Added: (Addendum) FBC Transition of Investment Industry Briefing Presentation at QATSICPP_12 May 2025.pdf

Please consider these addenda when responding.

Please note: The following addendum has been recently added.

1. Added: (Addendum) FBC Industry Briefing Presentation_NQ Region Mackay 9 May 2025.pdf

Please consider this addendum when responding.

Please note: The following addenda have been recently added.

1. Added: (Addendum) DFSDSCS015_Expression of Interest_Addendum 13.pdf

2. Added: (Addendum) FBC Transition of Investment Industry Briefing Presentation_STATEWIDE_19 May 2025.pdf

Please consider these addenda when responding.

Please note: The following addendum has been recently added.

1. Added: (Addendum) DFSDSCS015_Expression of Interest_Addendum 12.pdf

Please consider this addendum when responding.

Please note: The following addendum has been recently added.

1. Added: (Addendum) DFSDSCS015_Expression of Interest_Addendum 14.pdf

Please consider this addendum when responding.