Page 3614 - Week 08 - Thursday, 18 August 2011
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• Establishing a Housing Options Worker in Disability ACT, to assist individuals and families to identify and establish housing, tenancy and support options as resources become available.
(6) Any new initiatives will be considered in the normal budget context, considered against all of the issues competing for Government’s limited resources.
(7) In the 2011-2012 Budget, funding of around $7 million has been identified to develop an ‘Intentional Community’ which will house people with a disability supported by members of the surrounding community. A site has been identified in Phillip for the project. Approximately five young people with a disability will be co-located with about twenty public housing tenants, as part of a medium density development. Planning of the project is well progressed and Development Applications will be submitted shortly. Disability ACT will fund the support of these individuals with disabilities in this development.
(8) The overall stock of accommodation for people with a disability will increase by approximately five when the project comes on line. The total stock of accommodation for people with a disability is difficult to measure, particularly now, where Housing ACT is constructing dwellings so that they meet adaptable and/or accessible requirements.
Disability ACT will fund a total of 500 individuals for accommodation support in 2011 12.
(9) Disability ACT measures improved options through three primary mechanisms:
• The capture of annual data through the National Minimum Data Set collection for the ACT.
• A client satisfaction survey as part of its annual performance measures; and
• The use of data obtained through its Client Feedback System that informs Disability ACT on how to improve its services to people with a disability.
In addition Disability ACT under Future Directions, Towards Challenge 2014 and its ‘measures of success’ for Strategic Priority 1, lists 10 performance indicators that will be used to determine if it is delivering the right support at the right time in the right place.
(10) The following data is provided:
• Energy: approximately 25,000 households
• General Concessions: 13,409 properties
• Water: average 13,852 households
• Taxi: 3,200 members
• ACT Spectacle Subsidy Scheme: 8,206
• Senior Spectacles: 2,703
• ACTION: average 374,533 concession rides/month.
(11) This is a peak, point in time figure. The exact number varies from month to month due to fluctuations in the number of electricity account holders who are also Commonwealth card holders.
(12) No.
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