Page 4999 - Week 13 - Thursday, 2 November 2017

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The SHSC expanded to include tenancy support services and other non-accommodation homelessness support services. Due to differences in data concepts (e.g. definition of clients) between SAAP and SHIP, data from SAAP and SHIP are not comparable. It means data from the period from 2011-12 onwards are not comparable with data before 2011-12.

The new collection is also part of a broad based program of reform including new services, contemporary models implemented in the ACT e.g. “any door is the right door”, and the central intake services.

(6) Please see response to question 5, which also applies to this question.

(7) Accommodation places within the ACT Specialist Homelessness Sector comprise both emergency and transitional accommodation which gives the sector the flexibility to respond to service user needs. As such, it is not possible to arbitrarily split transitional and crisis accommodation within the ACT Specialist Homelessness Sector.

The total number of accommodation places currently available in the ACT Specialist Homelessness Sector is 321 places.

This number includes both standalone and congregate properties.

(8) In 2015-16, 309 accommodation places were available in the ACT Specialist Homelessness Sector at any one time.

Prior to 2015-16, ACT Government contracts with the ACT Specialist Homelessness Sector did not specify the number of accommodation places within the sector at any one time.

In 2015-16, a co-design process with the ACT Specialist Homelessness Sector separated accommodation from support services. For the first time, this captured total outputs across the sector in a consistent way.

(9) Crisis and transitional accommodation for people experiencing homelessness is administered by Housing ACT, through Service Funding Agreements with the Specialist Homelessness Services Sector funded under the NAHA and NPAH. For the purposes of supporting specialist homelessness accommodation, ACT head leases properties to the sector and manages the properties in line with the Residential Tenancy Act. The individual agency becomes the tenant and they are in turn responsible for entering into an occupancy arrangement with the client.

(10) The data reports on gender and client number and does not differentiate between supported accommodation and transition housing. The average length of accommodation in homelessness services is detailed below:

Table 4: Length of accommodation (nights)

(11) Please see response to question 10, which also applies to this question.

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