Tamara Pararajasingham, Wednesday, 23rd November 2022 - Uniting’s Tamara Pararajasingham explains how the sector was able to push NSW to extend state support for young people in out of home care to 21 and the lessons we can learn from…
Contributor, Thursday, 30th June 2022 - New South Wales is now the only jurisdiction that doesn’t extend comprehensive support to care leavers beyond the age of 18. Here, the Youth Advisory Group of Uniting’s Extended Care…
Sue Shilbury, Tuesday, 24th August 2021 - With the release of the Office of the Children’s Guardian report on the leaving care monitoring program 2020-21, Sue Shilbury shares her opinions on foster care and the improvements…
Wendy Williams, Wednesday, 7th October 2020 - “It has been an important ‘proof of concept’, but more importantly has made a lasting impact on the lives of hundreds of vulnerable children and families.”Australia’s first social…
Doug Taylor, Wednesday, 17th June 2020 - Doug Taylor shares three important lessons that Uniting has learnt about innovating rapidly in response to a crisis.Like many parents at home during COVID, I have been co-opted into…
Doug Taylor, Tuesday, 18th February 2020 - A report released in the latter part of last year could lead to a tipping point of sorts for the not-for-profit sector in 2020, as the implications of this start to play out and we ask questions…
Doug Taylor, Thursday, 23rd August 2018 - Uniting NSW and ACT group executive Doug Taylor runs through four of the biggest myths when it comes to growth strategies in the not-for-profit sector. We’ve all been on a not-for-profit…
Doug Taylor, Tuesday, 26th June 2018 - Business has an important role to play and it’s bigger than just creating profit and creating shareholder returns, writes Doug Taylor, group executive, Uniting NSW and ACT.The Business…
Wendy Williams, Friday, 23rd February 2018 - Australia’s Vocational Education and Training (VET) system is making it difficult for the most disadvantaged young people to gain access and a qualification, at the same time that…
Luke Michael, Tuesday, 5th September 2017 - Australia’s first social impact bond, the Uniting Newpin Social Benefit Bond (SBB), has recorded positive growth for the fourth year in a row, with more than 200 children returned…
Wendy Williams, Monday, 12th December 2016 - Anita Le Lay is the head of Uniting Disability . She is this week’s Changemaker.Le Lay has worked in the care sector for more than two decades.In that time she has taken on leadership…
Doug Taylor, Tuesday, 16th August 2016 - Hot Topic: The director of resilient communities at welfare provider Uniting, Doug Taylor, offers his top three tips on how to survive as an “intrapreneur” working on the transformational…