| Minister for Territory Families | |
|---|---|
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since 12 September 2016 | |
| Territory Families | |
| Style | The Honourable |
| Appointer | Administrator of the Northern Territory |
The Northern Territory Minister for Territory Families is a Minister of the Crown in the Government of the Northern Territory. The minister administers their portfolio through Territory Families.[1]
The Minister is responsible for child guardianship, child protection, children and families policy, children's services, family and parent support services, family responsibility agreements and orders, family violence services, men's and women's policy, multicultural affairs, pensioner and carer concessions, out of home care, the Seniors Card, seniors policy, youth affairs and services and youth detention.[1]
The former minister is Dale Wakefield (Labor). She was sworn in on 12 September 2016 following the Labor victory at the 2016 election.[1] The ministry and department were both created in a reorganisation by the incoming government, which was significant for having separated youth justice from adult correctional services for the first time following the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre scandal and subsequent Royal Commission into Juvenile Detention in the Northern Territory.[2][3]
The enlarged Territory Families ministry replaced a number of separate ministries from the preceding Giles Ministry, including the ministers for children and families, women's policy, men's policy, multicultural affairs, Senior Territorians and Young Territorians.[1][4] The Minister for Children in the Gunner Ministry is a new position concerned with "whole of government children's policy", while specific areas of child-related policy lie in Territory Families.[1][5]
- ^ a b c d e "Administrative Arrangements Order". Government of the Northern Territory. 12 September 2016. Archived from the original on 20 March 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
- ^ "NT Chief Minister Michael Gunner unveils new Cabinet". Northern Territory News. 12 September 2016. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
- ^ "Northern Territory axes CEOs and amalgamates departments under public service shakeup". The Guardian. 8 September 2016. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
- ^ "Ministries of the Twelfth Assembly" (PDF). Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
- ^ "Territory Labor launches election campaign". Northern Territory News. 7 August 2016. Retrieved 13 September 2016.