Page 2905 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 14 August 2019
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MADAM SPEAKER: No there is not.
Ms Lawder: She started it.
MADAM SPEAKER: Ms Lawder, enough.
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: I can assure the Assembly that caseworkers in child and youth protection services and Barnardos work very closely with carers and with care teams for children and young people. It is really important, again, to acknowledge that decisions about the care of children and young people are generally made in the context of care teams and that people across those teams have a good understanding of where children and young people are at and what supports they might need. So while a therapeutic assessment or a therapeutic plan is important and we are committed to ensuring that those plans are completed by June 2020 as I have described, and it is unfortunate that there has been this lag, I can say that we are absolutely committed to ensuring that children and young people get the supports they need when they need them.
Sport—female participation
MS CODY: My question is to the Minister for Sport and Recreation. Minister, what are some of the ways that government is supporting sport participation opportunities for women and girls?
MS BERRY: I thank Ms Cody and acknowledge her enthusiastic support for creating more opportunities for women’s and girls’ participation in sport. On the back of significant government support, the Canberra community has a great opportunity to get behind their elite sportswomen in basketball with the University of Canberra Capitals, in football with Canberra United, and in netball with the Giants. Funding certainty has helped these awesome teams of women to focus on their sport and give back to the Canberra community. And haven’t they given back! I am sure all members were excited to see the UC Capitals go big and secure the championship earlier this year.
In all sporting peak bodies, the government has been driving greater gender diversity in leadership and decision-making following my 2016 announcement that by 2020, next year, all peak bodies funded by the ACT government through their triennial agreements were required to achieve 40 per cent representation of women on their boards or risk being ineligible for funding. In 2017, in response to feedback from women and girls about the need to showcase all that is happening in female local sport and recreation, and more broadly in health and wellbeing, the government worked with HerCanberra to establish the HerCanberra active portal.
Another key part of the government’s election commitment to pursue gender equity in sport was the development of female friendly guidelines for sporting pavilions, which is being delivered through, for example, upgrades at Dickson and Phillip ovals and GIO Stadium as well as community sports pavilions. Finally, a few weeks ago I was happy to announce the recipients of the government’s elite coaching scholarships for women.
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