Page 2266 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 5 June 2013
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This, of course, adds to the $4.9 million allocated through the rollover to stage 2 of the upgrade of the Tuggeranong health centre. The Tuggeranong Community Health Centre delivers a comprehensive range of healthcare services to the local community. The centre offers services aimed at assisting clients to better manage acute and chronic conditions in the community and closer to home, while reducing the reliance on hospitals.
It provides community nursing, including ambulatory care clinics; allied health services such as physiotherapy, podiatry and nutrition; diabetes services, including services for those with gestational diabetes—a nurse educator and a dietician; services for women, youth and children; adult mental health services; alcohol and drug counselling; and pathology collection. The upgrade of this facility is something that is welcomed by the community. The improvements will make the community health services in Tuggeranong something that the community will be truly proud of.
Tuggeranong will also see great improvements to education, with several initiatives around the area. These include $1.8 million for the establishment of a new introductory English centre at Wanniassa Hills Primary School. The new facility will give students with limited or no English speaking background who have recently arrived in Australia and Canberra the opportunity for intensive language tuition before settling into mainstream schools in the Tuggeranong school network.
This work is added to by the rectification and upgrade of Taylor Primary School, costing $12.93 million. This project involves the removal of asbestos-containing materials from the school, upgrading and replacing core infrastructure and providing quality 21st century learning and teaching environments at Taylor Primary School. These incentives are vital for growth in the area and ensure that all families will be looked after in the area. This is added to by commitments that work with the ACT schooling system as a whole, including investing in our children’s future
The budget includes targeted investment in government and non-government schools to give every child in Canberra the best start in life, including more than $34 million over four years in new funding to reflect the ACT government’s contribution and transitional support under the national education reform agreement with the commonwealth, which provides a new and innovative funding framework for all Australian schools on a needs-based approach.
This budget also looks at special-needs students, with $1.6 million in 2013-14 to support the transport of students with disabilities to and from ACT public schools, as well as support for students with disabilities with $1.3 million in 2013 to provide additional support for students with complex learning needs in ACT public schools. This is integral to the national education reforms and will support ACT students in this important area.
This government also recognises that teachers are a key part of the education system, which is why this government has committed to investing in our teachers with $3.5 million over four years to provide support to experienced teachers to increase their professional qualifications and undertake research during their careers.
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