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(13) What is this as a portion of the number of people with a disability in the ACT.
(14) What is this as a portion of women with a disability in the ACT.
Ms Gallagher: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:
(1) A number of factors were considered in planning the relocation of some Aged Care and Rehabilitation Services to the Village Creek Centre at Kambah. These included:
• Consideration of future planning and infrastructure requirements.
• Expansion requirements for aged and rehabilitation services based on increased demand that were located on the Canberra Hospital Campus.
• Centralised efficiency – one point of contact.
• Opportunity to remove services that didn’t need to be located at the hospital.
• Opportunities to co-locate services previously provided in different locations.
The Government also considered the benefits from adaptive reuse of former school sites.
(2) The Centre was designed with access to clients with highest need as a minimum design standard.
In the planning phase, the new site provided opportunity to ensure appropriate access for an aged and disabled population, for example; wide corridors, appropriately equipped and private clinic rooms and a central administration area.
(3) The Aged Care and Rehabilitation Service did not undertake any gender-specific planning as no gender-specific services are delivered from the Village Creek Centre.
Functional ability was a major consideration in the decision to move services and also in the design of the refurbished Village Creek Centre.
(4) See (3) above.
(5) There are two bus stops within 300 metres of the Village Creek Centre and one stop has a designated and approved disabled access pathway directly to the front entrance.
ACTION has scheduled easy access, wheelchair accessible buses for the majority of bus trips on Route 62 passing the Centre on Summerland Circuit.
(6) As part of the move to the Village Creek Centre, a significant amount of work was undertaken to develop thorough transport and communication strategies. These strategies investigated options and provided up to date information about transport services to clients of the Centre.
Subsequent meetings have been undertaken with representatives of Territory and Municipal Services (TAMS), specifically ACTION Buses, and also Community Services Directorate to look at strategies for further improving access to the Village Creek Centre.
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