Page 2528 - Week 08 - Tuesday, 9 August 2016
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case analysis team will be developed. The child and youth protection services case analysis team will provide real-time feedback on quality of service and decisions to improve and to strengthen decision-making and accountability. This will enhance Child and Youth Protection Services’ responses to families where cumulative harm is presenting.
A quality assurance and improvement committee is also being established by the director-general to provide arms-length quality assurance and compliance with statutory services. A quality assurance and improvement committee will provide transparency and accountability on the Child and Youth Protection Services’ reforms underway.
Work under the blueprint for youth justice continues to demonstrate reducing numbers of young people coming into contact with or becoming involved in the youth justice system. This has resulted in a declining number of young people in detention in the ACT. To ensure that Bimberi Youth Justice Centre’s operating model is effective and efficient, $100,000 has been provided to review the options that would support better utilisation of the centre.
The ACT government values the role that seniors and veterans play in the life of this territory. The Assembly will note that the government has agreed to recommendations 10 and 11 of the estimates report, and I look forward to working further with the community on matters related to elder abuse and particularly to creating a training package to assist to identify and respond to elder abuse.
The Assembly will be aware that 18 August marks the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan. The ACT government will be providing funding for our veterans organisations to mark the anniversary and we are also working with veterans on a commemorative planting to mark the anniversary.
Being a small jurisdiction, the ACT has been uniquely positioned as a national disability insurance scheme trial site and the first jurisdiction to implement the NDIS. The NDIS is a fundamentally new approach to funding and delivery of disability services and has motivated ACT providers to seek out and consider new service delivery models and ways of engaging their staff and people with disability.
Through the changing environment we must ensure that we safeguard and protect people supported by service providers through improved regulatory powers in the human services sector. The ACT budget includes $145,000 for consultation with people with disability, families, carers and providers about how people with the most complex needs are supported to protect themselves and others. The government will undertake a review of the requirement to establish an office of senior practitioner to provide independent oversight for the reduction and elimination of the use of restrictive practices.
Finally, as the ACT enters into the final months of the transition to the NDIS, with over 4,000 people having already been found eligible for the NDIS, we still need to continue to support our clients and organisations as the transition continues over the
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