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APPENDIX 2: (Incorporated in Hansard on 13 August 1991 at page 2646)
CHIEF MINISTER FOR THE AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL
TERRITORY
ACT LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
QUESTION WITHOUT NOTICE
13 AUGUST 1991
Ms Maher - asked Mr Connolly, the Minister for Health and Community Services.
What service options to Sharing Places are being considered for people with a disability and -;:en will the services be available.
Mr Connolly - the answer to the Members question is as follows:
On the 31 July officers from the Community Programs Branch of the Bureau and the ACT Office of . Commonwealth Department of Health Housing and Community Services, Disability Services program (DST) met to discuss the current situation with Sharing Places, including the options for the four clients attending the program. These people had been attending Sharing Places through a brokerage arrangement with Work Places, an employment program.
The Commonwealth DST stated that employment Programs are the highest priority for the allocation of funds. This is in line with a commitment to social justice and the aim of ensuring people with a disability realse their full potential.
While the Commonwealth DST program attempts t fund services in areas of greatest need, it acknowledges that these services cannot meet the needs of all individuals in the community. Of the $139, 000 growler fu .^ avail 3hle Sharing Places received $80,962, leaving S52_8 for initiatives. There are six other community participation services competing for these funds, including Independent Living Training service.
The Commonwealth DST has indicated a .Ss to favourably consider the use of existing funds for more than the approved ceiling of 24 people. They arrangements would be on the condition that comes clients would not be compromised. Commonweal DST will again meet with Sharing Places in an attempt to achieve an agreed process for assessing the support of Sharing Places clients, an issue since condition is that Sharing Places not expect financial year to be automatically increase in numbers above the 24 approved.
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