Parks Victoria - Working with Children Checks are now mandatory for all volunteers
Parks Victoria have just released a detailed statement of their position in relation to the management of children and minors in projects and activities auspiced by Parks Victoria, as it relates to the current Child Safe Standards.
In line with many other organisations, Parks Victoria has decided the only effective way to ensure compliance is to mandate that all volunteers who will be engaged in activities auspiced by Parks Victoria, will be required to be in possession of a current Working With Children Check document - which is free to obtain for voluntary work. But you must obtain one by 30 June 2021 to be able to continue to volunteer in the second half of 2021.
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Bank Australia: The Red-tailed Cockatoo link
14/02/21 15:17 Filed in: News
Bank Australia is reducing the environmental cost of its operations by investing in the environment itself. Through a partnership with Trust for Nature and Greening Australia, the bank is rehabilitating areas of rural farm land that are also part of the habitat of the Red-tailed Cockatoo.
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Environmental Volunteering: Latest report via DELWP shows high latent demand
To support offering environmental volunteering opportunities that appeal to Victoria's diverse community, DELWP undertook a small but important piece of social research on engaging more Victorians in environmental volunteering. The project was conducted in partnership with Newgate Research.
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The VMLCG AGM is on January 31 11 AM in Geelong!
11/01/21 19:01 Filed in: News
Well, 2020 is behind us now and we all hope that the past lessons have been learnt and that we will not go back to some of the hard times we had in that year.
We will all have to live with the new Covid normal conditions and still look after each other even more as time moves on. Vaccinations all sound good and we all hope they will solve our problems but only time will tell on that.
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Latest Landcare Victoria Newsletter Available
From the CEO
I’m pleased to provide Landcare Victoria’s November newsletter.
The Government plan to allow camping on licensed water frontages has been a significant point of concern for many in the Landcare community in the last few weeks. We reported on the issue in the October newsletter and provide an update in this issue.
The Landcare community is expressing widespread concern about the imminent end of the current round of funding for the Landcare Facilitator Program. Landcare Victoria is in regular contact with DELWP about the issue. See the report in this newsletter.
The very good news about the decline in the number of Victorian COVID19 cases and associated easing of restrictions means that volunteer group activities can re-commence with appropriate care.
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