| Divisions | Children, Youth and Families Division | 03 9096 7564 | The Children, Youth and Families Division focuses on the health, safety, development, learning and wellbeing of children, young people and families in Victoria. |
| Divisions | Corporate Services Division | 03 9096 8582 | The Corporate Services Division delivers internal services to the department, such as finance, people services, administration and information services. The division also supports community sector partners through the Funded Agency Channel. |
| Other Bodies | Disability Services Commissioner | 1800 677 342 | The Commissioner has been created to work with people with a disability and disability service providers to resolve complaints. |
| Divisions | Disability Services Division | 1300 650 172 | The Disability Services Division provides and funds a range of services for people with intellectual, physical, sensory and neurological disabilities. |
| Divisions | Executive Services Division | 03 9096 8599 | The division is responsible, as a shared service with the Department of Health, for corporate integrity, freedom of information and cabinet parliament executive services. Executive Services is responsible for providing legal, communication and internal audit support to the Secretary, the department's program divisions, eight regions and two Ministers. The division supports three statutory bodies: the Child Safety Commissioner, the Disability Services Commissioner and the Suitability Panel. |
| Divisions | Housing and Community Building Division | 1300 650 172 | The Housing and Community Building Division provides housing and support to Victorians most in need. This includes homelessness and crisis support, affordable rental housing and training and employment opportunities for people in public housing. |
| Divisions | Industry, Workforce and Strategy Division | 1300 650 172 | The Industry, Workforce and Strategy Division works to develop a stronger industry and workforce to support service delivery and to best meet current and future challenges. The division promotes integrated planning, strategy development and governance across DHS. The division improves policy development and its integration into service delivery, and leads departmental efforts to improve Aboriginal outcomes. This area was previously known as the Portfolio Services and Strategic Projects Division. |
| Other Bodies | Multiple and Complex Needs Initiative | 03 9096 7995 | The Multiple and Complex Needs Initiative (MACNI) is a time-limited specialist service for those 16 years and older identified as having multiple and complex needs, including those with combinations of mental illness, substance abuse issues, intellectual impairment, acquired brain injury and forensic issues. Often these individuals pose a risk to themselves and to the community. |
| Other Bodies | Office of the Child Safety Commissioner | 1300 78 29 78 | The Office of the Child Safety Commissioner makes children a priority. The Commissioner provides advice to both the Minister for Community Services and the Minister for Children & Early Childhood Development on issues impacting on the lives of children, in particular vulnerable children. This is achieved through listening to children, advocating on their behalf, being impartial, leading on child-safe practices, acting with integrity, and being held accountable. |
| Divisions | Service Delivery and Performance Division | 03 9096 0000 | The Service Delivery and Performance Division facilitates a whole of department perspective on operational issues. The division provides a central point of accountability for improving regional performance and manages a number of key projects for this objective. It also has responsibility for statewide co-ordination following emergencies. |
| Other Bodies | Suitability Panel | 03 8608 5757 | The Suitability Panel can decide whether an out-of-home-carer should be disqualified from being on the register of carers or whether a carer's disqualification should be removed. |
| Other Bodies | Youth Parole and Youth Residential Boards of Victoria | 03 9096 7534 | The Youth Parole and Youth Residential Boards exercise jurisdiction over all young people sentenced by a court to a period of detention in a youth justice custodial centre and over young people transferred by the Adult Parole Board from imprisonment in adult prison to serve their sentence in a youth justice centre. |
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