National Care & Support Sector Conference 2026
We’re proud to welcome Doug Taylor, Chief Executive Officer of The Smith Family to one of Australia’s most important conversations on care, support, and the future of the care sector.
That is why education is not separate from the care and support conversation. It sits at the very foundation of it.
And yet across Australia, too many children particularly those experiencing disadvantage are being failed by the gap between the education system’s reach and the depth of support that genuinely transforms a young life’s trajectory.
Doug Taylor has spent his career working to close that gap.
As CEO of The Smith Family one of Australia’s largest children’s education-focused charities, supporting over 60,000 young Australians living with disadvantage every year Doug leads an organisation whose work begins with a child’s education and follows that child through the years that matter most.
The Smith Family understands something that the care sector needs to hear clearly and often:
The most effective form of long term care is the kind that builds a person’s capacity to shape their own life.
Doug brings to this conference a perspective that connects education, disadvantage, and long term care outcomes in a way that is both urgently practical and profoundly important:
✅ Education as the foundation of long term care and support outcomes
✅ Supporting children experiencing disadvantage what genuine transformation requires
✅ The link between early educational intervention and lifelong wellbeing
✅ Community partnerships that wrap around children and families together
✅ Philanthropy, purpose, and the role of civil society in the care sector
✅ Leadership in mission-driven organisations navigating scale, impact, and sustainability.
National Care & Support Sector Conference 2026
Friday, 28th August, 2026
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Join In-Person or ONLINE, Pullman, Albert Park Melbourne,VIC
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