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The salaries funding allocated to this program is $202 003.

3) The overall salaries cost for field staff working in behaviour management programs for the last three financial years is;

2009/10 – $1,427,234

2008/09 – $1,207,375

2007/08 – $1,171,154

Schools—chaplaincy program
(Question No 1620)

Mr Doszpot asked the Minister for Education and Training, upon notice, on 7 April 2011:

(1) Can the Minister provide a list of all public schools in the ACT that have a chaplaincy program, with corresponding funding, chaplain numbers and student participation numbers over the last three financial years.

(2) Can the Minister provide a list of all schools with counsellors, with corresponding information pertaining to number of counsellors, student participation numbers and funding allocation over the last three financial years.

Mr Barr: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:

1) School Boards decide whether they would like a chaplaincy program in their schools. Schools are not required to report to the Department of Education and Training if they have a chaplain. The National School Chaplaincy Program is an Australian Government-funded initiative. The Department does not provide funding for school chaplaincy programs.

2) All ACT Public schools have access to a school counsellor.

*Represents the budgeted amount of FTE for school counsellors however, senior counsellors, who provide clinical supervision of school counsellors, provide an additional 2.5 FTE of support in schools.

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