Andrew Macintosh

2025 onward · Principal Social Worker, Evertrack Family Practice

Evertrack provides Regulation 40 Family Reports under instruction from the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia, Independent Children’s Lawyers, and lawyers for parties; parenting coordination in post-orders matters; and international family and kinship assessments instructed from the United Kingdom.

2021–2025 · Aboriginal Children in Aboriginal Care Program, Department of Families, Fairness and Housing

Andrew held progressive roles as Senior Project Officer, Acting Manager, and Principal Policy Officer within this Australia-first initiative authorising Aboriginal community-controlled agencies to exercise statutory child-protection functions on behalf of the Secretary.

The work included policy and legislative development, contributing to amendments to the Children, Youth and Families Act 2005, program design, and authorisation processes. Andrew was instrumental in multiple budget proposals to the Department of Treasury and Finance that secured funding to progress the program from an Australian-first pilot to statewide rollout. The role required sustained, high-level engagement across government and the Aboriginal community-controlled sector.

2014, 2016–2023 · Statutory Child Protection, Department of Families, Fairness and Housing

Andrew practised in Victorian statutory child protection across multiple periods, progressing from frontline intake through senior practice leadership to operational management. Roles included Advanced Child Protection Practitioner, Senior Supervisory Child Protection Practitioner, Aboriginal Family Led Decision Making Practice Leader, Team Manager, and Deputy Area Operations Manager appointments.

The work spanned intake assessment, statutory investigation, case management, court reporting, and operational leadership across metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria.

2015–2018 · Children’s Guardian and Family Court Adviser, CAFCASS, United Kingdom

Independent appointments through Andrew’s UK private practice, Macintosh SW Ltd, across two periods in Stafford and Cambridge. Andrew prepared section 7 reports under the Children Act 1989, providing advanced social-work assessments in high-conflict private-law children’s matters and complex welfare assessments.

2010–2014 · Child Protection Social Worker, United Kingdom

Frontline statutory child-protection practice with Kirklees Council, Leeds Council, and Salford Council, including statutory case management, complex assessment, multi-agency coordination, and initiation of statutory and legal proceedings to safeguard children.

Family Reports

Victoria primarily, with interstate work undertaken where appropriate. Online attendance may be acceptable where the matter and parties can be properly assessed remotely; where in-person attendance is required, travel is costed into the fee.

Parenting coordination

Australia-wide via video conference, with in-person sessions at the practice rooms on Peel Street, Collingwood, Melbourne, on the 86 tram line.

International assessments

UK-instructed matters undertaken in Australia. Where assessment of home conditions is required, in-person attendance at the family’s location is provided, with travel costed into the fee. Office-based interviews are available at the Collingwood rooms.

The practice works with families across high-conflict, complex parenting, child-welfare and family-violence matters, and is experienced where neurodiversity in parents or children is a feature.