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Member news: 2 May 2023

In this edition:
  • BNPL financial counsellor survey closes 8 May
  • New resource: Carer Connect factsheet
  • Roundtable Session with Westpac Group, 9 May
  • Mental Wellbeing of Business Communities Grants Program Round 2 closes 12 May
  • Tomorrow: Utilities Working Group meeting
  • Sign a petition on Gambling advertising, closing 10 May
  • Positions vacant
  • Upcoming CPD sessions
  • Meeting minutes: update

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Professional Indemnity Insurance Options for Professional Supervisors

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In May 2020, the FCVic Board made a number of enquiries into professional indemnity insurance options for professional supervisors who provide supervision external to their agency. There were limited, appropriate options available. This information provided here outlines the policy option offered by AJ Gallagher.

This is just one option for professional indemnity insurance and professional supervisors should ensure this policy is right for them before applying. Professional supervisors can source their own alternative policies.

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When Gambling and Family Violence intersect

  • 2 hrs
  • 1 CPD points
  • Technical, Skills
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When Gambling and Family Violence intersect session was targeted at specialist gambling FCs. It has drawn attention to the complex area where gambling and Family Violence intersect.

This recording includes scenarios where the person gambling is the perpetrator of FV or the victim of FV, as well as the other side of the story: affected others and financial abuse. Family Violence and harmful gambling are both common and harmful public health problems. Experience of one increases a co-occurrence of the other. For some victims of family violence gambling can function as a survival tool. What are the challenges that arise for us as workers? How can we best support people affected by gambling harm and FV?

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Rain, rain go away: Disaster and floods insurance

  • 2 hrs
  • 1 CPD points
  • Technical
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Currently, there are serious flooding events happening across Victoria. These are predicted to be ongoing. Consumer Action Law Centre’s experienced staff delivered the session with case studies and a Q&A format. This session was designed for financial counsellors to bring current issues from their own practice to an open discussion about how to deal with these issues. The training has touched on notices to vacate, rent arrears and arrangements to repay as well as repairs and mould.

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Worker’s injury compensation

  • 2 hrs
  • 1 CPD points
  • Skills
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In this session resources, you will learn about how to make a claim and what compensation payments are available.
You may be eligible for compensation if you or a client got injured at work and needs medical treatment or time off work. The Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013 (WIRC Act) addresses what happens when a Victorian worker is injured.

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Tax Clinic Referrals for Small Business

  • 1 hrs
  • 1 CPD points
  • Technical
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In this session recording you will hear directly from the Victoria and Monash University Tax Clinic on their role and how you can assist small business clients. This training has provided information on what matters are within the scope and out of scope; times /periods of operation; the process followed in supporting clients; how client referrals to the Clinic are best made and how financial counsellors can best prepare their clients for an upcoming appointment.

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Post disaster – Rebuilding resilience and looking after ourselves and clients

  • 2 hrs
  • 1 CPD points
  • Skills
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Post-disaster – Rebuilding resilience and looking after ourselves and clients session was divided into two sections:

  1. Dr. Rob Gordon recordings snapshots and discussion

The learning outcomes

  • Gain an awareness of the nature of resilience and recovery
  • Understand the ways in which communities can be affected by disaster
  • Work sensitively to support people through disaster aftermath and recovery
  • Understand the skills and importance of maintaining your role when working with people who are still recovering from crisis
  • Manage the client narrative and direct the conversation to areas where you can help
  1. Presentation from a guest speaker- Jen Thompson, Psychotherapist and Trauma Therapist & Trainer.

The learning outcomes from the session recording:

  • Understand trauma effects on clients, resulting from disaster and other events
  • Apply a trauma-informed lens to Financial Counselling casework
  • Safely, supportively, and responsively work with traumatised clients still recovering from the aftermath of a natural disaster; and
  • Embed self-care strategies into practice.

 

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Wage Advance Products

  • 2 hrs
  • 1 CPD points
  • Technical, Skills
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Wage Advance products, like Beforepay and MyPayNow, belong to a particular family of unregulated credit products. They are increasing in number, designed with special characteristics that are employed to avoid being captured by consumer protection laws and regulations. This session has covered what makes them unique, where they fit into the regulatory environment, and how to create and use strategies to work with the problems they cause for your clients.

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How Does Centrelink Treat Compensation Payments & Assets

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  • 1 CPD points
  • Skills
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Receiving compensation for lost income due to an injury or traumatic event can be emotionally restorative and provide people with greater financial freedom, however many people may not realise the impact it can have on their Centrelink payments.
Similarly, people who are planning for a new financial period of their lives, such as downsizing in their retirement, may not understand how the sale of their primary residence and purchase of a new primary residence will be treated by Centrelink in the asset test.
In this session, Eloise Cox, Community Lawyer with Social Security Rights Victoria’s Integrated Services Project, have given an overview of compensation preclusion periods, the assets test, income deeming provisions and common challenges people face in these areas.
This session has also addressed the avenues people can pursue when they do not agree with a Centrelink decision – including appeals – and what help is available for clients and community workers (i.e. when and what SSRV can help with).

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Small Business Indepth – Director penalty notices

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  • 1 CPD points
  • Technical
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This session recording is aimed at small business financial counsellors trained to assist small business owners in company structures. ATO debt is a very common feature of small businesses in financial difficulty, and the number of Director Penalty Notices (DPN) being issued by the ATO is significant. This session highlights the risk of personal liability of directors in receipt of a DPN, and the tight timeframe and limited options available for the company and the directors.

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