Reframing governance – an effective enabler for quality service delivery
Organisations are complex enterprises, and how they are run is equally so. It can help to think of governance as a bundle of components, including the organisation’s leadership, decision making and responsibility frameworks, risk identification and management, and relationships both within the organisation and between the organisation and its stakeholders.
What is Governance?
Organisations are complex enterprises, and how they are run is equally so. It can help to think of governance as a bundle of components, including the organisation’s leadership, decision making and responsibility frameworks, risk identification and management, and relationships both within the organisation and between the organisation and its stakeholders.
Rights, choices and dignity of risk – a human rights perspective
Risk is an inseparable part of life. It’s the tightrope walk we take every day, from crossing the street to pursuing our dreams. However, when it comes to older adults, a well-meaning but misguided desire to shield them from harm can morph into ageism.
Queensland LNP’s housing policy welcome news
QCOSS has called this week an historic moment in Queensland’s history as it welcomed the LNP’s new housing policy.
Budget delivers for struggling Queenslanders, but concerns remain
The 2024-25 Queensland state budget delivers the short-term financial relief struggling Queenslanders desperately need, the state’s peak body for community services says.
Queensland renters in survival mode facing nation’s worst rent rises
Despite the Miles Government’s ground breaking Homes for Queenslanders Plan, Queensland renters remain at the “brutal edge” of the national housing crisis, a landmark housing report has found.
Demand for emergency relief hits record high in Rockhampton
Demand for emergency household relief has hit a record high in Rockhampton, as large families are crammed into motel rooms, and residents forego specialist medical appointments, community services warn.
Toowoomba children are not attending school because of the cost-of-living crisis
Children are not attending school in Toowoomba because their parents can’t afford their lunches or fuel to get them there, social services warn.
Toowoomba children are not attending school because of the cost-of-living crisis
Children are not attending school in Toowoomba because their parents can’t afford their lunches or fuel to get them there, social services warn.
Cairns’ hidden housing and homelessness crisis
QCOSS held a critical meeting with social services in Cairns on Thursday May 9 against the backdrop of data that demonstrates the increasing cost of living pressures.