Disability Advice and Response Team (DART)

⁠⁠⁠The Department of Justice and Community Safety is seeking to engage a qualified non-government organisations for the delivery of the Disability Advice and Response Team (DART) in the Children’s Court of Victoria (Children’s Court).

There is opportunity to improve the identification of young people with disability at an earlier stage of their interaction with the justice system and assist them to access disability supports. DART will assist to identify if a young person has a disability and improve the pathways for young people presenting at court with timely access to disability support services. This will reduce delays and the associated burden of adjourning matters on the court system to allow information about the young person’s disability needs to be sought.

DART will assist the Children’s Court to identify when a young person has a disability and will enable the presiding judicial officer to be better informed about the young person’s disability. DART will be available to the criminal division of the Children’s Court of Victoria, including the Children’s Koori Court, as well as Marram-Ngala Ganbu (Koori Family Hearing Days).

Please see Part A, The Invitation number seven Invitation Briefing - Thursday 6 October 2022, 9:00 AM AEDT

Please email CV.GrantsandProcurement@justice.vic.gov.au by 5pm on Tuesday 4 October 2022 to register providing email addresses of up to three (3) attendees. Details of the session will then be emailed to all attendees before the session.

Disclaimer for tenders and grant application processes:

As the Victorian State election will be held on Saturday 26 November 2022, the Victorian Government will assume a caretaker role from 6:00 pm on 1 November 2022 until such time that either it becomes clear that the incumbent government will be returned, or when a new government is commissioned.

In line with the caretaker conventions, the incoming government will determine whether to proceed with this tender process and enter into the contract after the caretaker period.

Tenderers should be aware that:

• all information about this tender process represents the position of the current government only, and is subject to change; and
• the incoming government may decide to not proceed with this tender process.