Alma Mistry

Strategic advocacy in family, youth and children's law @VicLegalAid. Formerly making public interest TV and radio.

[Alma Mistry @AlmaMistry]

Well, this made my week. Deanna thought it was lovely as well.

[Victoria Legal Aid @VicLegalAid]

We must make changes to improve the lives of kids in state care. Our data shows half of our clients placed in residential care will seek help with a criminal matter within two years of their placement.

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@DjirraVIC @thevalsmob @CCYPVictoria

[Victoria Legal Aid @VicLegalAid]

Our latest client data shows residential care is still funnelling kids into the criminal justice system at unacceptable rates.
More transparency, better data is urgently needed to address this over-criminalisation
#CareNotCustody #ChildProtectionWeek
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[Alma Mistry @AlmaMistry]

Inspired and enriched hearing from so many First Nations led orgs and advocates, working everyday to keep families and communities together and connected @SNAICC #voicesatthetop conference on Larrakia Country

[Victoria Legal Aid @VicLegalAid]

‘Having advocates working alongside families, particularly in the early stages of involvement with Child Protection, leads to positive outcomes and can resolve matters before court,’ says Robyn Buchanan, Independent Family Advocacy and Support Manager.

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[Nick Feik @NickFeik]

It’s been largely missed on the mainland, but the series of (linked) cases of child abuse in Tasmania exposed by the recent Commission of Inquiry is the worst I’ve ever encountered. #politas
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[Alma Mistry @AlmaMistry]

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[Victoria Legal Aid @VicLegalAid]

'The repeal of the presumption of equal shared parental responsibility and the simplified best interest factors are critical to making women and children safer.' - VLA's Joanna Fletcher on proposed family law changes https://t.co/VSz7BiZtSH

[Josephine Tovey @Jo_Tovey]

At the height of the 2021 lockdown, I was diagnosed w stage 3 bowel cancer, and was plunged into a world of illness.

I'm doing great now, but rates are rising among younger Australians and we don't fully understand why. I wrote this about my experience:
https://t.co/uRrrZY3ZJY

[Alma Mistry @AlmaMistry]

@Jo_Tovey Beautiful piece, thank you for sharing.

[ACOSS @ACOSS]

Experts, advocates and people who have experience with the income support system agree - $20 a week is not enough to weather the #CostOfLivingCrisis and people on the lowest incomes are living in constant stress and in fear of homelessness.
https://t.co/ELgGYcYFNK

[Victoria Legal Aid @VicLegalAid]

We are proud of our clients & our role in helping dismantle robodebt. But we hope never to be in that position again. Read our response to the @robodebtRC's final report #RobodebtRC https://t.co/AGJJaOJQyY

[Alma Mistry @AlmaMistry]

Congratulations on this well deserved recognition of all your work to improve safety and economic justice for victim survivors of family violence @JoannaF13 #whengoodthingshappentogoodpeople

[Victoria Legal Aid @VicLegalAid]

This is fantastic recognition for Joanna’s many years working to address social justice issues, with a particular focus on preventing and responding to violence against women. https://t.co/Hs7gFaimS2

[Alma Mistry @AlmaMistry]

This is very welcome news. VLA's 2018 report into the permanency amendments found that their intended aims - timely, safe, permanent homes for children who need state intervention and prompt support for families at risk – were not being achieved. https://t.co/3FfubUqhJP

[Victoria Legal Aid @VicLegalAid]

We welcome a review into permanency amendments - these rigid timeframes don't recognise that some families need more assistance & time to achieve reunification #childprotection #viclaw #springst https://t.co/1p9PkCbAn5

[The Age @theage]

"If the department had been willing to work with me, to tell me what I needed to do to have him stay with me, I would have done anything." https://t.co/9S5shUxfmD

[Yoorrook Justice Commission @yoorrookjc]

"and processes to reduce the number of First Peoples children in out of home care is not a policy failure, which it is in my view, of truly epic proportions, it's just somehow the way things are, that it's expected."

[Yoorrook Justice Commission @yoorrookjc]

Commissioner Walter adds, "it worries me that a lack of accountability and it even seems to me that the incredible overrepresentation of First Peoples children in the child protection system has become normalised as if the ongoing failure of departmental legislation policy...

[Yoorrook Justice Commission @yoorrookjc]

In closing, Commissioner Hunter reminds those listening "that every statistic we spoke about today and yesterday was a child and I don't want us to ever forget that." #yoorrook

[Victoria Legal Aid @VicLegalAid]

We outlined several urgent steps that must be taken in our submission to the @yoorrookjc https://t.co/n9GwYofdBp

[Victoria Legal Aid @VicLegalAid]

Victoria's child protection system continues to perpetuate harm on First Nations families. Reform is long past due, but some common sense measures, enacted now, could make a real difference to the lives of many kids #SpringSt
https://t.co/GA1DRtD4FL