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Safety concerns about a child or young person
If you have immediate safety concerns about a child or young person, please call 000.
If you have general safety concerns about a child or young person, please contact the Child Protection intake office where the child lives: https://services.dhhs.vic.gov.au/child-protection-contacts
After 5pm and on weekends, contact the Child Protection After Hours service on 13 12 78.
General enquiries
Where we can help you directly, our enquiry staff will refer you to the most appropriate person within the Commission.
tel: 1300 78 29 78 (Restricted hours of 9.30–11.30am and 2.00–4.00pm apply during the Coronavirus shutdown)
email: contact@ccyp.vic.gov.au
Please note: For media enquiries only, please see below.
Contact us in your language
Interpreter services are available in community languages by calling the Australian Government's Translating and Interpreter Service on 131 450.
Ask your interpreter to call the Commission for Children and Young People on (03) 8601 5884 and ask the switchboard to direct your call to a specific business area.
We also have a range of information available in plain English and community languages.
Media contact
For enquiries from media only.
Darren Lewin-Hill
Senior Communications & Media Adviser
0437 046 360
Mailing address
PLEASE NOTE: During Coronavirus restrictions the Commission will have limited capacity to process mail received through the post.
We request that people sending us material instead email the Commission via contact@ccyp.vic.gov.au
Level 18
570 Bourke Street
Melbourne
Victoria 3000
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Complaints about the Commission
If you wish to make a complaint about the Commission – not a complaint about another agency or organisation – please contact us and we will provide further advice about your formal options in directing your complaint for appropriate consideration.
For further information, please also refer to our external complaints policy (PDF 65.5 KB).