We engage with stakeholders through many and varied committees and working groups, including participating in external committees and groups, and coordinating some of our own.

Committees we lead

WACOSS leads the Peaks Forum, a collaboration of community sector peak bodies in Western Australia.
Read about the Peaks Forum
Council of Social Service Directors and CEOs meet regularly via teleconference, and when possible, for face-to-face meetings and events.

State Committees

  • 6718 Balagarni Group – Roebourne (Yandi for change)
  • Anti-Poverty Week State Committee
  • CEOs for Gender Equity
  • Community Employers WA (CEWA) Board
  • Community Skills WA Board
  • Delivering Community Services in Partnership
  • Department of Communities Partnership Roundtable
  • East Pilbara Interagency meeting
  • Economic Regulation Authority Consumer Consultative Committee – ERACCC
  • Ending Conversion Practices WA 
  • HUGS – Hardship Utility Grants Steering Committee
  • Hedland Collective Steering Committee
  • Hedland Community Safety Advisory Forum – HCSAF
  • Imagined Futures Leadership group
  • Karratha and surrounds Early Years Network
  • Leading Women
  • Law Access Board 
  • Law Access Stakeholder Advisory Committee
  • Make Renting Fair WA
  • National Raise the Age General Meeting
  • Navigating through Life – Research Advisory Committee
  • National Consumer Roundtable on Energy
  • Newman Futures – Liveability and Wellbeing Stream
  • Pilbara District Leadership Group
  • Pilbara Aboriginal Health Planning Forum – PAHPF
  • Recovery and Community Engagement Sub-Committee (RECS)
  • Social Reinvestment WA Executive Committee
    • Social Reinvestment WA Law Reform (Raising the Age) subcommittee
    • Social Reinvestment WA Transparent and Accountable Justice System subcommittee
  • Social Assistance and Allied Health Steering Committee
  • South West Metropolitan Partnership Forum
  • Supporting Communities Forum – SCF
  • Sustainable Health Review, Partnership Group
  • State Welfare Emergency Committee (SWEC)
  • State Welfare Emergency Committee Operations (SWEC OPs)
  • Western Australian Advocates for Consumers of Energy – WA ACE
  • Water Corporation Customer Advisory Panel
  • WA for Human Rights Campaign Steering Committee
  • WA Refugee and people seeking asylum network
  • Youth at Risk Reference Group

National ACOSS-led collaboration committees

  • ACOSS Climate and Energy
  • ACOSS Housing and Homelessness
  • ACOSS Income Support and Employment Policy Network
  • ACOSS Media & Communications 
  • ACOSS Community Sector Policy Network
  • ACOSS Tax Policy Network
  • ACOSS Directors
  • ACOSS Raise the Rate (RTR) Campaign Meetings
  • ACOSS Social Security
  • National COSS Network Policy Committee (COSS Policy Leads)
  • UNSW/ACOSS Poverty & Inequality Steering Committee
Read about the National COSS Network

Other committees we are involved in

  • Belmont/Vic Park CRR Network
  • Community Coalition for Healthy, Affordable Homes
  • DLG Connect
  • Emergency Relief and Food Access Service (ERFAS) Reference Group
  • Equity Project 
  • FINWA Protection and Care Advocacy Network
  • Fremantle CRR Network
  • ICANR Forum Independent Centre for Applied Not-for-profit Research
  • Inner City ER Network Meeting
  • Joondalup and Wanneroo Ending Homelessness Group – JWEHG
  • Peel Homelessness Network Meeting
  • Rockingham Interagency Meeting
  • South East Metropolitan Emergency Relief Forum
  • WA Social Research Network