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Community Affairs Legislation Committee Examination of Budget Estimates 2003-2004 Additional Information Received VOLUME 1 Centrelink, AIFS & FaCS Output Groups: Cross outputs, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO NOVEMBER 2003 Note: Where published reports, etc.

have been provided in response to questions, they have not been included in the Additional Information volume in order to conserve resources.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION RELATING TO THE EXAMINATION OF BUDGET EXPENDITURE FOR 2003-2004 Included in this volume are answers to written and oral questions taken on notice relating to the budget estimates hearings on 4 and 5 June 2003 FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO Senator Denman Webber Bishop Bishop Bishop Bishop Bishop Bishop Bishop Bishop Bishop McLucas McLucas Bishop Bishop Quest.

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2 4 5 7-8 6, 9-12 13-14 20-21 22 157 158 Moore Moore Moore Moore Moore Moore 146 147 148, 149 151, 156 152 153, 150 154, 155 Centrelink Vol.

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1-3 Business contact service 4 Relocation of Bunbury Call Centre 5-6 IT rollout 7-9 Dutch pension issue 10-14 Data matching 15-16 Debt recovery and credit cards 17-18 Use of credit cards to repay Centrelink debts Centrelink’s forward year ASL 19 Impact of the 1% efficiency dividend on forward year staffing estimates 20 21 Average cost of a Centrelink employee 22 Customer service officers in area and call networks 23-24 Centrelink’s community agent program 25 Abstudy changes 26-27 ESC3 28-31 JET Australian Institute of Family Studies Financial statements, PBS Project budgets Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assault Dr Catherine Hakim AIFS conference National child protection clearing house Cross outputs Bishop Bishop 165 144, 145 Budget forward estimates Budget measures Output Group 1.1 – Family Assistance Revised methodology for FTB reconciliation results Child care benefit debt Research into annual costs of raising children Family tax benefit Tabled at hearing 172 24 3, 160 174-176 27 Family tax benefit Family tax benefit and child care benefit overpayments Collins Webber Webber Bishop Bishop Bishop i 32 33-34 35-40 41 42-43 44-48 49 55-56 57 58-59 60 61-80 81-83 84 Senator Bishop Collins Bishop Bishop Collins Bishop Moore Bishop Collins Bishop Quest.
No 25, 26, 28, 29, 32- 36 30-31 37 38 40 159 167 168-170 42, 43, 45 166, 46, 39, 44 41 Output Group 1.1 – Family Assistance [contd] Family tax benefit reconciliation Reason for FTB repayment choices Fertility Child abuse prevention appropriation Australian Council for Children and Parenting Services for families with children Family relationships services program – men and family relationships/family relationships education Indigenous parenting and family wellbeing Stronger families and communities strategy Vol.
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85-93 94-95 96 97-99 100-103 104-107 108-110 111-115 116-149 Taskforce on child development, health and wellbeing 150-166 Output Group 1.2 – Youth and Student Support Bishop Faulkner Bishop Bishop Bishop 47 48 49-52 53 161-162 Youth and student assistance – restructured reviews JPET review Student financial supplement scheme Commonwealth scholarships and youth allowance Youth allowance - full time/non-full time students 167 168 169-172 173 174-179 Output Group 1.3 – Child Support Moore Moore Moore 54 55 55A Numbers of cases in debt management services Amounts recovered in debt management services since 1998 Staffing levels in CSA 180 181 182 Moore Moore Moore Moore Moore Moore Moore Collins Collins Collins Moore Moore Collins Moore Bishop 56 57 58 60 61 62 63 65 66 64, 67-72 75-77 73, 79 74 78 80-82 163 Output Group 1.4 – Child Care Support Child care benefit expenditure Child care benefit for families using family day care & long day care Child care benefit expenditure for children under 2 years old Website usage Child care services – various requests for information Openings and closures of child care services Registered training organisations that operate child care centres Statement of contentions from DEWR regarding wage case – child care Copy of letter from Family Day Care Association Child care Jobs eduction and training (JET) child care Think tank on work force issues - invitees Child care reference group Special needs subsidy scheme (SNSS) Child care staffing issues 183-184 185 186 187 188-192 193-206
 207 208-211 212-216 217-237 238-239 240-243 244 245-247 248-261 ii Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: Centrelink Topic: Business Contact Service Hansard Page: Written question on notice Senator Denman asked: Question No: 2 1.
What is the aim of implementing Employer Reporting for Business Services to report employee earnings to Centrelink electronically?

The legislative changes that support Working Credit includes changes to the way employment income for most customers is assessed.

From 20 September 2003, customers who have variable employment income will need to report to Centrelink every fortnight before they can be paid so that their payments are assessed correctly.
Centrelink recognises that certain customers, particularly some DSP customers, will need help reporting each fortnight.

Centrelink is introducing Employer Reporting to assist customers working in Business Services with their new reporting requirements.

Employer Reporting is a voluntary process for both Business Services and their employees, which provides the facility for the employer to electronically transfer the customer’s earnings information to Centrelink.

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What sort of information is Centrelink hoping to send and receive via this system?

Employer Reporting allows Business Services employers to report their employees’ earnings directly to Centrelink on a regular basis.

Centrelink will not be routinely sending any information to the Business Service.

The only information Centrelink will provide the Business Service is the Customer Reference Number (CRN) after the customer has consented to the release of that information.
The CRN and the Business Services’ Payroll ID will be “matched” and used to verify that Centrelink is only receiving earnings information and assessing entitlement for the correct consenting customer.

3.

Where is the legislative power to do this, particularly with sensitivity to the rights and privacy of these individuals and that these are individuals with disabilities and some may not fully understand - firstly, what it means to consent to the process, and later, the implications of the new system?
This initiative is one of a number of arrangements being put in place as part of the Working Credit initiative to assist people to report their earnings to Centrelink.

Centrelink ensures an informed consent process with customers and their carers or nominees which is confirmed in writing following the customer’s agreement to participate.
Once the customer has agreed to participate, the employer can transfer the earnings information directly to Centrelink and the information is used to assess the customer’s next payment.

The earnings' information is transferred via Centrelink’s secure web site.
1 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 The customer is required to provide this information under Section 68 of the Social Security Administration Act.

The customer’s consent creates an agency agreement whereby the Business Service reports information on the customer’s behalf.
If customers choose to have their employer report their employment earnings for them they will not need to personally report to Centrelink on a fortnightly basis.

They will still need to report other changes in their circumstances as they occur.

The risk of customers being under or over paid is minimised through this process.

Earnings income reported through Employer Reporting will be considered verified and Centrelink will not ask for this information again through other review activity.
Customers will receive an Earnings Statement every 12 weeks which so that they are able to check that the income provided by the employer is correct.

Changes of circumstances that must be notified are also set out in the statement.

Customers will be able to withdraw their consent at any time.

If they do, they (or their nominee) will be responsible for reporting their earnings, as well as any other changes in circumstances, to Centrelink themselves.

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4.

As this is a voluntary system and not all organisations are going to participate - what is the point in having some organisations in this system and others not?

Employer Reporting is not dependent on 100% participation.

The initiative offers employers an efficient option for assisting their employees with their reporting obligations to Centrelink, and provides an easy option for customers to meet their reporting requirements.
Only those customers who have consented to participation will have their earnings reported to Centrelink via this reporting option.

Employees of Business Services who choose not to participate in Employer Reporting will need to report their earnings using the access options available to all Centrelink customers.

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Does Centrelink intend to make this voluntary option compulsory?

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No.

Employer Reporting offers customers an alternative to reporting their earnings fortnightly through the current access channels.

Under the Working Credit initiative, customers with varying income will need to report their earnings to Centrelink.

Customers will always be able to choose how they notify Centrelink of income or changes in circumstances.

6.

Can Centrelink indicate how many organisations have agreed to participate in this system?
Currently there are two organisations participating in a pilot which is testing the concept.

They are reporting the earnings of approximately 260 Business Services staff.

Consultations are occurring with a number of Business Services with a view to including them in Employer Reporting on an ongoing basis.

2 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 7.
Has Centrelink received any feedback on this service from organisations or the clients of these organisations?

Both employers and employees from the two organisations participating in the pilot have provided positive feedback on the new arrangements.
3 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: Centrelink Question No: 4 Topic: Relocation of Bunbury Call Centre Hansard Page: Written question on notice Senator Webber asked: 1.

What were the reasons for the planned shift of premises by the Bunbury office of Centrelink?
Answer: The need to seek alternative office accommodation in Bunbury was made due to the operational decision to expand Centrelink’s Call Centre operations in the West Australian time zone.

The relative location of Centrelink and other building tenants meant that a satisfactory tenancy layout could not be achieved in the current building.

2.

Has the announcement of the move caused any increase in the cost of rent of current premises – an increase on currently subsidised rent?
Answer: Rental paid for the twelve month lease extension to 30 September 2003 increased by $81.45 per square metre.

3.

What is the cost of the current premises per annum and what will be the per annum cost of the new premises?

Answer: The cost of rental for the current premises (2702m2) per annum is $743,698.48 ($275.24 per square metre per annum).

The cost of rental for the new premises (3200m2) will be $828,800 ($259.00 per square metre per annum) for the first year.

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What will be the cost of shifting premises?

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Will there be any fitout or other additional costs associated with the move to the new premises – and if so, what are they?
Answer: Capital: New building fit-out, including cabling - $1,315,313 Make-good current building - $162,120 Operating Cost (estimates): Removals - $12,000 Centrelink overtime and travel - $7,500 Telecommunications equipment $8,034 Miscellaneous small equipment items - $20,000 Project Management - $14,500 4 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: Centrelink Question No: 5 Topic: IT Rollout Hansard Page: CA266 Senator Bishop asked: IT Rollout – Please give: (a) the blocks of moneys (b) the phasing of dates (c) the implementation dates for each of the blocks Answer: Please see attached.
5 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Question IT Rollout - please give a) the blocks of monies b) the phasing dates c) the implementation dates for each of the blocks Answer Funding for Enhanced IT Technology Capability.
(in $M) Blocks of Projects Portals Data Services Information Systems TOTAL YEARS 44.0 70.8 67.1 Phasing Dates 03/04 04/05 05/06 06/07 07/08 Implementation Date 2.5 8.4 5.9 7.9 16.4 9.0 11.3 26.3 17.4 8.2 7.4 June 2004 -- Dec 2008 June 2004-Dec 2008 9.2 16.5 16.7 18.8 July 2004 - June 2008 Technology Infrastructure 111.5 27.8 28.9 22.8 15.8 16.2 July 2004 - June 2008 Security TOTAL (Departmental funding revenue including capital.)
18.7 8.1 3.3 3.4 3.3 0.6 Dec 2004 - June 2007 312.1 52.7 60.6 85.4 62.2 51.2 6 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: Centrelink Topic: Dutch Pension Issue Hansard Page: CA 285 Question No: 7 Senator Mark Bishop asked: Debt in relation to pensions – With regard to the four agreement partners other than Holland that we currently have extant agreements with, do we have the figures for the numbers of people affected there, the average level of debt and the total debts?
Answer: Debt details for pensions from other countries are as follows: USA Numbers of people with a debt The average level of debt Total debts 611 $2,163 $1.32 million Canada Numbers of people with a debt The average level of debt Total debts 863 $391 $0.34 million Austria Numbers of people with a debt The average level of debt Total debts 1875 $626 $1.17 million Spain Debt information specific to the rate reviews of Spanish pensions is not available.

The reviews were undertaken in 1999.
7 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: Centrelink Topic: Dutch Pension Issue Hansard Page: CA 286 Question No: 8 Senator Mark Bishop asked: Please provide a copy of the letter that was sent to customers by Centrelink talking about variations to exchange rates and telling customers that they did not need to advise Centrelink or the department of changes in exchange rates.
Answer: A copy of the letter is attached hereunder.

8 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Date of issue: 13 February 1998 Name of customer Address This letter is about the way your overseas income and assets affect your Social Security payment Dear The amount of your Social Security payment depends on the Australian dollar value of your overseas income and assets.
We use an exchange rate to calculate how much your overseas income and assets are worth in Australian dollars.

Because this is always changing we have introduced a system that updates the rate automatically each month.

This system will start from 5 March 1998.

Each month, we will take the rate that was current 15 working days before the first Social Security pension payday in the month.

This is the rate we will use for all paydays in that month.
We usually use the Commonwealth Bank’s on-demand airmail buying rate as our exchange rate.

If you get an Italian pension, we will use the rate from the Banca Commerciale Italiana.

Your Social Security payment will be updated automatically.

You do not have to contact us or tell us the exchange rates.

You will get a letter from us every 3 months showing the exchange rates we have used.
If you want to know the current exchange rate, you can obtain this information by phoning our Overseas Income Exchange Rate Line on 1800 050 041.

If there is a difference of more than 5% between the exchange rate we used and the rate you actually received from your overseas income, you can request a reassessment.

To do this, you will need to have something in writing, that shows how much you received.
You can either post us this information or you may prefer to ring 131021 to make an appointment to go to you local Centrelink Office.

However, remember that a new, updated exchange rate will be applied in the next month.
Yours sincerely Centrelink Manager 9 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: Centrelink All Question No: 6 Topic: Data Matching Hansard Page: CA282 Senator Bishop asked: What proportion of income support recipients have a basic data match with their tax file number or that of their spouse’s each year?
Answer: All income support recipients and their spouses are included in the Data-matching Program.

The number released for review would vary according to the numbers detected as possible incorrect payments.

In the 2002-03 financial year there were 123,241 cases released for review where the income support recipient’s income declared to Centrelink did not match the income they declared to the ATO.
In addition, there were 15,155 cases released for review where the income of spouses who were not income support customers did not match with the income they declared to the ATO.
10 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: All Question No: 9 Topic: Data Matching Hansard Page: CA290 Senator Bishop asked: Can you confirm that there was no routine tax file number matching between income support recipients and their partners until the new pilot project announced last year?
Answer: In the Data-matching Program, partners are divided into two categories.

These are: I. II.

Those who are income support customers in their own right.

Those who are not income support customers (non-customer partners).

Those in Category 1 have been included in the Program since its inception in 1991.

The approach to those in Category 2 has varied.


The income of non-customer partners of Family Payment customers was matched from 1991 until this payment was replaced by Family Tax Benefit (FTB), and is now checked through the FTB reconciliation process.

The income of non-customer partners of Parenting Payment recipients has been matched since 1998, and continues to be included.
Under the 2002-03 Budget pilot, matching commenced on non-customer partners of customers receiving pensions and employment assistance payments.

11 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: Centrelink All Question No: 10 Topic: Data Matching Hansard Page: CA291 Senator Bishop asked: How many matches to partners’ tax file numbers have occurred under the pilot project?
Answer: As a result of matching conducted under the Widening Data-matching Pilot project, a total of 15,155 cases were available for review during the 2002-03 financial year.
12 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: Centrelink All Question No: 11 Topic: Data Matching Hansard Page: CA292 Senator Bishop asked: How many comparisons between a person and their partner are you going to do in this year’s budget?
Answer: Centrelink expects to match approximately 10,000 income support recipients who have a partner not in receipt of an income support payment in the 2003-04 financial year.

13 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: Centrelink All Question No: 12 Topic: Data Matching Hansard Page: CA292 Senator Collins asked: How broad is your population?
What is the size of the population that you run against the tax file records and the characteristics included in the matching program that trigger that number.

Answer: For each cycle in the Data-matching Program all Centrelink records except those for FTB customers are included in the matching process.

The cases selected for review would vary according to the numbers detected as being possible incorrect payments.
The income matching process is designed to detect any anomalies between income information that Centrelink may hold for a customer and the income information the ATO holds.

A number of elements have been included in the Program to address the different risks that have been identified for each of the types of payment that Centrelink administers.

For example, the Program detects where a pension customer is receiving income from salary.
The number of Centrelink and Department of Veterans’ Affairs records matched each cycle for 2002-03 against current financial year data, excluding FTB customers, was around 7.3 million.

(The precise number varies from cycle to cycle as customers become eligible or ineligible for payment, based on their circumstances.)

The number of equivalent financial year ATO income records against which the data was matched is around 2.2 million (again the precise number varies from cycle to cycle).
The number of historical financial year Centrelink records matched each cycle, excluding FTB customers, was around 6.3 million (again the precise number varies from cycle to cycle).

The number of historical financial year ATO income records against which the data was matched is around 2.4 million (again the precise number varies from cycle to cycle).
14 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: Centrelink All Question No: 13 Topic: Debt Recovery and credit cards Hansard Page: CA303 Senator Bishop asked: Debt Recovery and credit cards - advise whether Centrelink’s option to repay debts by credit card was referred to the minister’s office and was approved at that time by her or whether it was simply a decision of the line people?
Answer: The decision to provide customers with a credit card repayment option was made by Centrelink on the basis of requests from customers.

The decision was not referred to the then Minister’s Office for approval.
15 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: Centrelink Topic: Debt Recovery and credit cards Hansard Page: CA305 Question No: 14 Senator Bishop asked: Provide a copy of your new revised instructions to staff reminding them that it is not the policy to suggest repayment by credit card before other options.
Answer: Centrelink debt recovery staff were advised on 27 May 2003 that: “Recently, a major metropolitan newspaper reported a customer's claim that Centrelink attempted to force her to use her credit card to repay her debt.

As you know, the credit card payment facility is only one of a number of payment options available to customers.
While Centrelink can advise customers of the credit card payment option, staff should never attempt to force customers to use their credit card to a repay a debt.” 16 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: Centrelink All Question No: 15 Topic: Use of credit cards to repay Centrelink debts Hansard Page: CA 305 Senator Bishop asked: a) How many customers have repaid debts in a lump sum with a credit card by month since its inception; b) How many customers have made partial repayments with a credit card by month since its inception c) The average amount being billed to a customer’s credit card for each transaction.
Answer: Centrelink does not hold details of customers who repaid debts in a lump sum or made partial repayments with a credit card.

The following table provides the number of credit card payments and the average credit card payment by month from July 1998 processed by Centrelink.

There is no data available for credit card payments made via Australia Post prior to October 2001.
Month Credit Cards payments via Australia Post Credit Cards payments via Centrelink No of transactions Average payment per transaction No of transactions Average amount per transaction Jul-98 Aug-98 Sep-98 Oct-98 Nov-98 Dec-98 Jan-99 Feb-99 Mar-99 Apr-99 Jun-99 Jul-99 Aug-99 Sep-99 Oct-99 Nov-99 Dec-99 Jan-00 Feb-00 Mar-00 Apr-00 May-00 unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable 17 0 0 4 33 49 63 75 98 149 196 237 239 272 273 334 373 271 295 351 378 307 435 $0 $0 $370 $456 $321 $245 $343 $374 $346 $294 $373 $289 $299 $331 $373 $301 $297 $248 $226 $250 $220 $280 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Month Credit Cards payments via Australia Post Credit Cards payments via Centrelink No of transactions Average payment per transaction No of transactions Average amount per transaction 499 475 522 455 518 446 361 405 369 387 387 407 384 362 390 399 389 386 321 381 652 742 873 892 872 1,001 1,001 1,139 1,106 1,034
 1,191 1,177 1,027 1,290 1,184 1,279 $280 $322 $231 $254 $203 $266 $252 $202 $273 $294 $296 $256 $304 $269 $371 $336 $369 $263 $249 $435 $409 $410 $311 $375 $397 $378 $340 $309 $397 $421 $386 $346 $421 $326 $334 $339 Jun-00 Jul-00 Aug-00 Sep-00 Oct-00 Nov-00 Dec-00 Jan-01 Feb-01 March-01 April-01 May-01 Jun-01 Jul-01 Aug-01 Sep-01 Oct-01 Nov-01 Dec-01 Jan-02 Feb-02 Mar-02 Apr-02 May-02 Jun-02 Jul-02 Aug-02 Sep-02 Oct-02 Nov-02 Dec-02 Jan-03 Feb-03 Mar-03 Apr-03 May-03 unavailable unavailable unavailable
 unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable 3,424 3,233 2,729 3,301 8,540 6,295 6,760 8,210 7,620 7,969 8,448 10,694 12,408 12,027 14,061 10,981 9,469 10,083 9,720 10,997 unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable unavailable $272 $275 $277 $300 $492 $341 $308 $317 $327 $343 $329 $332 $347 $378 $384 $311 $306 $308 $324 $341 18 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: Centrelink Question No: 16 Topic: Centrelink’s Forward Year ASL including impacts of 02-03 and 03-04 Federal Budgets Hansard Page: CA 305 Senator Bishop asked: In the June round of estimates last year, Centrelink provided two tables of staffing over the forward estimates, one with a base ASL and the other the impact of the 2002-03 budget measures.
They essentially showed for ASL a reduction in staff, from 22,833 down to 22,347 in the 2005-06 year, and the impact of the 2002-03 federal budget on Centrelink’s staffing levels in table 2 was 670 in 2002-03, 824 in 2003-04, 1,121 in 2004-05 and 1,200 in 2005-06.

Can you provide an updated table with base staffing over the forward estimates period, including the impact of the 2002-03 budget and the second table that details the staffing impact of the 2003-04 budget?
Answer: Centrelink’s estimated ASL for the forward years is shown in the following table: 22,176 ASL Base 825 2002-03 Measures 679 2003-04 Measures Total Estimated ASL 23,680 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 21,455 20,702 20,228 1200 1200 397 587 23,281 22,489 21,825 1121 705 Table 1: Forward year estimates of Centrelink ASL Notes: • Outyear estimates of ASL are calculated on known forward year revenue apportioned between salary and administrative expenses, using average salary rates; • The outyear revenue figures do not include revenue assumptions for any future Federal Budget measures; 19 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: Centrelink ............................................................................Question No: 17 Topic: Impact of the 1% Efficiency Dividend on forward year staffing estimates Hansard Page: CA305 Senator Bishop asked: Provide a third table that shows the impact of the one percent efficiency dividend on staffing numbers over the same forward estimates period.
Answer: The efficiency dividend of 1% per annum is calculated and removed from Centrelink’s revenue prior to commencement of the financial year, leaving a net revenue figure within which Centrelink plans and manages it’s budget.

The question is a theoretical one that cannot be readily answered given that Centrelink achieves its budget outcomes through a variety of measures, including internal business capability improvements.

Any reductions to revenue do not translate directly to staffing reductions.
Note: The efficiency dividend of 1% per annum applies across Centrelink’s base revenues as well as adjustments for new policy decisions.

On total revenue of some $2b per annum the dividend is approximately $20m per annum.
20 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: Centrelink ............................................................................Question No: 18 Topic: Average cost of a Centrelink Employee Hansard Page: CA306 Senator Bishop asked: Do you have an average cost of a Centrelink employee, including on-costs?
Answer: For 2002-03 the average cost of a Centrelink employee, including on-costs, is $77,480.

This figure is calculated by dividing the average staffing level for 2002-03 into Centrelink’s total expenses for the following items: • Salary; • Staff related expenses eg.

recruitment costs, Comcare premium, overtime meal allowance; • Training; • Travel, including vehicle leases; • Property leases and outgoings eg.
electricity, cleaning; • Telephony; • IT Leases and maintenance; • Printing and photocopying; • Office requisites; • Financial expenses eg.

Comcover, FBT Note: All customer-related expenses are excluded from this calculation eg.
1300 telephone lines, postage, customer medicals, printing and forms production, Australian Valuation Office 21 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: Centrelink Question No: 19 Topic: Customer Service Officers in Area and Call Networks.

Hansard Page: CA306 Senator Bishop asked: How many customer service officers are there in the network?
How many in the call centre?

– by salary, by overtime, by superannuation?

• Answer: The following table provides the data as at May 2003.

CSO's Area Network Call Network ASL Staff 17,745 4,628 19,164 5,033 Ave.

Annual Salary $44,296 $42,120 Ave.

Annual Super Ave.

Annual Overtime $6,063 $5,542 $994 $209 Table 1: All staff in Area and Call Networks as at May 2003 Definitions: ASL – is Average Staffing Level.
This figure is derived by calculating part time staff as a percentage of fulltime hours and excludes staff on long-term leave without pay i.e.

greater than 12 weeks.

For example a staff member who works 2 days per week is an ASL count of 0.4; a staff member on long-term LWOP has a zero count.

ASL is the most commonly used methodology for calculating affordable staffing levels.

Staff – this count is the total number of ‘heads’ employed i.e.
on the ‘books’, regardless of part time or full time employment and/or long-term absences.

22 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: Centrelink Question No: 20 Topic: Centrelink’s Community Agent Program Hansard Page: CA 329 Senator McLucas asked: What is the ongoing training and support that you provide, and how do you do it, given that the person is quite remote?
Answer: Ongoing training and support is provided to Centrelink Agents using a comprehensive suite of tools.

The available suite was developed prior to the implementation of the Integrated Centrelink Agent and Access Point Servicing Model on 1 July 2002.
The suite consists of the following; • Annual 2 day formal training for each Agent site with optional national accreditation learning opportunities; • Periodical on-site face to face support and mentoring provided by Centrelink Remote Visiting Team (RVT) staff; • An Internet enabled computer, fax and printer and a dedicated Centrelink Agent Coordinator for technical/IT hardware support who is located in the parent Customer Service Centre (CSC); • A telecommunications package which provides access to Centrelink Call Centre for payment and services related support; • A hard copy of the Agents Resource Information folder which is retained on- site by the Agent; and • A Centrelink Agent CD that contains information on payments and services and the latest Centrelink forms and fact sheets.
(Updated quarterly) Agent training is scheduled and managed from the parent CSC or Area Office.

Funding is provided to meet associated costs.

Training facilitators are generally Centrelink staff from the parent CSC who may accompany a RVT on a community visit or schedule a specific visit in order to the deliver the training.

Ongoing support channels are established during these trips, whereby Agents can call the Centrelink Agent Coordinator or Centrelink Call Centre for assistance.
Alternately in some Areas, the Specified Personnel may be brought into a central location and trained as a group.
23 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: Centrelink Question No: 21 Topic: Centrelink’s Community Agent Program Hansard Page: CA 330 Senator McLucas asked: In terms of the number of people who are being provided as the Community Agents, what is the turnover of people through those positions?
Answer: Centrelink contracts Host Organisations to provide services in these communities.

It is the responsibility of Host Organisations to determine who will fulfil the role as the Specified Personnel.

The turn over of Agent Specified Personnel in the last 12 – 18 months has been minor.

Most Specified Personnel have been fulfilling this role for more than 12 months.
24 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: Centrelink Topic: Abstudy changes Hansard Page: CA 332 Senator McLucas asked: Question No: 22 Abstudy changes – please provide the number of children who were at school on 26 January.
Answer: Centrelink is not able to provide statistical data on the number of children who were at school on 26 January as this data is not collected by Centrelink.
25 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: Centrelink ..........................................................................Question No: 157 Topic: ESC3 Hansard page: Written question on notice Senator Bishop asked: Context : (Mr Havlat said: In this current financial year there would be a rollover to the ESC3 process for next year, so there will be a rebuilding or some reconsideration of some functions into next year.
But in this year, as far as I know, it is basically the same thing).

1.

What functions will be subject to reconsideration?

2.

What Centrelink staffing and other functions will alter as a result of changed arrangements under ESC 3?

3.

What is the dollar value of any changes?

4.

Have any functions (staffing or otherwise) been transferred to a.

Job Network providers b. DEWR c. Been abolished Answer: 1.

What functions will be subject to reconsideration?
With the introduction of the Active Participation Model (ESC 3) on 1 July 2003, Centrelink has responsibility for the following functions: • • • • • • streamlined referral of job seekers to the Job Network; allocation of job seekers to one Job Network Members (JNM) for the life of their unemployment; allocation and booking of job seeker appointments through the JNM electronic diary; approval of Job Search Plans (JSP) for JNMs and Community Work Coordinators (CWC) from September 2003; referral of job seekers to participation programs and services, noting that from 1 July JNMs will also be able to refer job seekers to these complementary programs; and JSCI Supplementary Assessments (JSAs) after JNMs have updated information that may have revised the job seekers JSCI and subsequently require further assessment.
2.

What Centrelink staffing and other functions will alter as a result of changed arrangements under ESC 3?

Centrelink is currently in the process of negotiating a new Business Partnership Arrangement (BPA) with DEWR for 2003-06.

The new BPA will articulate DEWR’s policy outcome, services to be delivered and Centrelink’s associated costs.
26 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 3.

What is the dollar value of any changes?

The financial impact of ESC 3 on Centrelink’s revenue will not be known until the negotiation of the BPA has been finalised.

There will be some further implementation costs for 2003-2004 that will be subject to a separate costing process with DEWR.

4.
4.

Have any functions (staffing or otherwise) been transferred to a) Job Network providers?

Under ESC3 Job Network Members will have the capacity to make referrals to a range of complementary programs (eg: Voluntary Work; and Language Literacy and Numeracy).

They will also have the ability to input information that could change a Jobseeker’s JSCI.

b) DEWR?

DEWR contract managers will manage Job Network Member exits, these where previously managed by Centrelink.

c) Been abolished?

No.


27 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: Topic: JET Written question on notice Senator Bishop asked: Question No: 158 JET (i) Please detail the number of JET officers employed a) by classification b) by State c) by Centrelink region?
(ii) Please detail the number of personal advisers a) by classification b) by State c) by Centrelink region who will provide services to parents?

(iii) Please provide details of the number of personal advisers a) by classification b) by State c) by Centrelink region?

(iv) Please provide a breakdown of personal advisers by salary level?

(v) Please provide details of the number of clients a) per day b) per year it is estimated each Personal Adviser will assist?
(vi) Please detail a) the number of childcare places currently available under JET and estimated over the forward estimates period?

b) total funding available under JET per annum for childcare?

(vii) Please provide the average cost, per person for a JET childcare place?

(viii) Please detail the number of VET places or other training places for JET clients?

(ix) Please detail total funding available under JET per annum for VET?

(x) Please provide the average cost per person for a JET VET place?
28 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Answer: (i)(a) 153 JET Advisers (combination of full time and part time) at Centrelink 3 level (APS 5) (b) We are unable to provide details by state as some areas cross state boundaries (c) By Centrelink region as follows: Area West Vic 13 Area Sth East Vic 7 Area Pacific Central 10 Area Brisbane 10 Area Tasmania 5 Area West NSW 7 Area South West NSW 15 Area South Australia 16 Area South Metro NSW 6 Are North Central Vic 9 Area North Australia 7 Area Hunter NSW 8 Area East Coast 12 Area Central & North Qld 9 Area West Australia 19 (ii) (a) 456 Personal Advisers at Centrelink 2 level (APS 3-4) (b) We are unable to provide details by state as some areas cross state boundaries *(c) by Centrelink region Area West Vic 25 Area Sth East Vic 25 Area Pacific Central 42 Area Brisbane 43 Area Tasmania 14 Area West NSW 24 Area South West NSW 28 Area South Australia 39 Area South Metro NSW 23 29 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Are North Central Vic 36 Area North Australia 24 Area Hunter NSW 29 Area East Coast 25 Area Central & North Qld 30 Area West Australia 49 * Personal Advisers provide a generic participation servicing role to AWT customers from all target groups including: • Parenting customers; • Mature Age customers over 50; • Better Assessment At Risk customers (i.e.
Indigenous, Activity Test Exempt and Prison Release); and, • Customers who have a temporary Incapacity.

(iii) Answers are the same as for (ii) (iv) Appointments to Centrelink commenced at the base salary of $34,907.

Successful applicants from Centrelink and transferring from other Commonwealth employment were appointed at a salary level corresponding to their existing salary.

Personal Advisers are employed at the Centrelink 2 level (APS3-4).
Pay Point 1 308 $36,303 Pay Point 2 8 $37,246 Pay Point 3 3 $38,191 Pay Point 4 1 $39,182 Pay Point 5 46 $40,459 Pay Point 6 16 $41,746 Pay Point 7 11 $42,832 Pay Point 8 36 $43,931 Pay Point 9 27 $45,128 (v) (a) and (b) There are no rigid targets in relation to the number of customers per day, per year a Personal Adviser would see.

The number of customers meeting a Personal Adviser will vary depending on the location and the individual circumstances of customers.
An approximate guideline was set at 5 initial interviews or 5 hours of interviewing per day.

30 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 (vi)(a) There is no fixed number of childcare places available under JET.
Rather, JET Child Care provides assistance with finding a childcare place in existing childcare services and with covering the costs of the "gap fee", the difference between the Child Care Benefit and the full fee charged.

Approximately 12,000 JET eligible parents were referred to the JET Child Care program in 2002-2003.

Customer numbers are estimated to increase by 1,500 per annum.

(b) Funding for JET Child Care for 2002-03 was $14.043m.

The funding for 2003-04 is $14.969m.


(vii) The average amount of child care fee assistance paid for JET customers is $38.17 per week for an average duration of 23 weeks.

Therefore, the average amount of childcare fee assistance paid per JET customer is $877.91.

(viii) Please detail the number of VET places or other training places for JET clients?

JET customers do not have specific placements for VET courses.

They are included in the total number of income support customers referred to VET courses.
(ix) See answer to (viii) above.

(x) See answer to (viii) above.
31 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: Australian Institute of Family Studies Question No: 146 Topic: Financial Statements, PBS Hansard Page: CA440/Written question on notice Senator Moore asked: What is ‘Other’ - on page 293 of the portfolio budget statement, the AIFS budget statement of financial performance for the period ended 30 June?
Answer: It relates to a number of miscellaneous items including things like reimbursements for expenses to attend meetings and conferences; interlibrary loans fees; photocopying charges etc.

These revenues amount to close to fifty thousand dollars a year, and are budgeted consistently across the PBS out-years for this reason.
32 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: Australian Institute of Family Studies Question No: 147 Topic: Project Budgets Hansard Page: CA440/Written question on notice Senator Moore asked: We would able be get from you a list of all the current projects you are working on and how much they are worth?
Answer: Appropriation Funded Projects Research Operations Survey Operations Family Trends Analysis Research - General Total Research- General Program A - General Child Care in Cultural Context Australian Temperament Project Development in Diverse Families Total Program A Program B - General Caring for Children After Separation Older Couples Family Transitions Analysis Family Law Developments Marriage in Australia Total Program B Program C - General Families Social Capital and Citizenship Family and Work Decisions Families in Poverty Implications of Relationship Breakdown Living Alone Dynamics of Low Income and Welfare Reliance Total Program C Research Total 2003-04 Budget 10,384 79,974 62,438 23,000 175,796 392,431 304,220 428,929 1,301,376 86,376 54,194 93,764 158,097 17,867 202,728 13,395 30,616 13,611 26,003 44,886 37,698 205,939 57,070 18,600 54,256 10,480 33 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Current Contracts/Grants Projects Client Longitudinal Study of Aust Children (Growing Up in Aust) Child Protection Clearing House Stronger Families Clearing House Stronger Families Learning Exchange Australian Temperament - Crime Prevention Victoria Study Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey Fertility Decision Making Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assault Childcare Choices Donor Insemination Australian Temperament - Driving Behaviour Study Total Budget
 Dept of Family & Community Services Dept of Family & Community Services Dept of Family & Community Services Dept of Family & Community Services Victorian Dept of Justice Dept of Family & Community Services Office of Status of Women Office of Status of Women Aust Research Council -Grant Aust Fertility Social Research - Grant RACV & TAC - Collaboration Completion Date June-11 Total 03-04 Contract Total 3,749,409 17,098,000 June-04 306,525 894,147 June-04 400,000 1,061,500 June-04 1,270,000 1,851,603 April-04 65,000 155,000 June-04 13,680 55,280 June-04 95,000 250,000 June-05 488,625 1,198,208 June-05 19,755 62,765 June-04 18,415 36,808 June-04 41,000 73,800 6,467,409 22,737,111 34 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: Australian Institute of Family Studies Question No: 148 Topic: Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assault – Reference Group Hansard Page: CA442 Senator Moore asked: When that reference group is determined, can you let us know who they are?
Answer: At the time of preparing this answer, the Reference Group had not been appointed.

The names will be on the Centre’s web site, once they have been confirmed.
35 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: Australian Institute of Family Studies Question No: 149 Topic: Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assault, Reference Group Hansard Page: CA442/Written question on notice Senator Moore asked: Do you know how big that group is going to be – Please confirm.
Answer: The intended size of the reference group is nine members.
36 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: Australian Institute of Family Studies Question No: 151 Topic: Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assault, Staffing Hansard Page: CA445 Written question on notice Senator Moore asked: Dr Tomison, when you get your staffing in place, can we get something from you to say that that has been concluded and who the successful researchers are and a little about their background?
That will be public.

You have mentioned your own experience in this area.

Could we get a little information about the people when they are appointed?

Answer: Dr Adam Tomison, (Exec 2), (BSc Hons Deakin) (PhD Monash).

Will be the Unit Manager for the Centre.


Dr Tomison is currently an Acting Principal Research Fellow at the Institute where he has management responsibility for the Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assault, the National Child Protection Clearinghouse and the Training and Support Team of the Stronger Families Learning Exchange.

Dr Melanie Heenan, (BA Hons ) (PhD Monash), has been appointed Senior Research Fellow (Exec 2) with responsibility for the research advisory functions of the centre.
Dr Heenan has an extensive background in research on sexual assault, most recently as a Research Officer with the Victorian Law Reform Commission (2000-2003), where she was involved in the Commission’s current reference investigating the reform of sexual assault legislation.

Alexandra Neame, (BA Hons Queensland) has been appointed Research Officer (APS4) to Provide research assistance and support to the Centre.

Ms Neame is currently undertaking post-graduate studies in the field of sexual assault.
37 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: Australian Institute of Family Studies Question No: 156 Topic: Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assault – Linkages Hansard Page: CA 444 Senator Moore asked: Is it possible – I am not quite sure whom I should ask – to get a briefing note on the kinds of organisations you are wanting to set up that kind of linkage with and the kinds of processes you are using?
Answer: With the employment of research staff at the Centre, a primary task is therefore to identify key bodies (in consultation with OSW and the ACSSA Reference Group) and to undertake a series of meetings to promote the Centre and to strengthen linkages.

This process has already begun.

For example, contacts have been made with the Australian Institute of Criminology and the Victorian CASA network.
At this stage the following key stakeholder groups have been identified: Government agencies (State and Commonwealth): • Attorneys-General • Health & Human Services • Ministers for Women Affairs • Australian Bureau of Statistics • Bureaux of Crime Statistics Police services • Specialist sexual assault units • Community liaison personnel (Gay & Lesbian; Indigenous; CALD) The legal sector: • Judiciary and the Courts • Departments of Public Prosecution • Other legal practitioners Non-government agencies running sexual assault and violence prevention programs • National Assoc of Services Against Sexual Violence (NASAV) • Other sexual assault treatment, counselling and support (professionals and agencies) • Women’s refuge and SAAP programs 38 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Community advocacy groups (women’s groups; men’s groups; anti-violence groups): Health and medical services • Peak professional associations (e.g.
AMA) • Forensic physicians and sexual health practitioners Indigenous communities: • peak bodies • service providers • specialist sexual health services and/or crisis services • men’s groups • drug/alcohol services Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities (CALD) • peak bodies • service providers • specialist sexual health services and/or crisis services • men’s groups • drug/alcohol services Adult survivors of sexual abuse • Key service providers and advocacy groups Aged Care and the Disability sector • Key service providers & peak bodies Rural and remote communities: • Key service providers • Community groups (e.g.
Country Women’s Association) Sex Workers: • Support and advocacy groups (e.g.

Sex Workers Outreach Project NSW) Academic sector: • Sexual assault experts and key research centres • Violence against women general • Violence in Indigenous/CALD communities • Key statutory agencies (e.g.
Australian Institute of Health & Welfare) Key international agencies • UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute 39 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Promotion of the Centre • The promotion of the Centre will be achieved using a number of strategies, including the publication and distribution of promotional materials, publicity in existing Institute publications, and electronically, via the development of the Centre’s website on the Institute’s homepage.
• The Institute will encourage established sexual assault organisations to publicise the existence of the Centre in their publications or on their mailing lists; • The research staff will promote the Centre via membership of and attendance at peak body and other interagency meetings; by accepting opportunities to conduct public and professional information dissemination; and through the administration and promotion of the Centre at Institute and other external conferences and seminars.
• In addition to the provision of on-line resources and enabling stakeholders to access the Centre via telephone/email/fax, the Centre’s research staff will explore additional ways to provide support to rural and remote stakeholders.

For example, the provision of rural-remote education and training seminars has proven to be an important way of engaging with rural and remote communities.
40 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: Australian Institute of Family Studies Question No: 152 Topic: Dr Catherine Hakim Hansard Page: CA446 Written question on notice Senator Moore asked: Please provide a list of Dr Hakim’s visits and engagements that you coordinated for her around the conference.
Can you just include the range of activities that Dr Hakim was involved in when she was here?

You may well have the full list of costings then, as well, and what that involved.

Answer: Monday 10th February Wednesday 12th Tuesday 18th February Parliament House, Canberra Meeting with John Perrin, Social Policy advisor to Prime Minister Seminar to Parliamentary Liberal Party, hosted by Minister for Ageing, The Hon.

Kevin Andrews, MP Dinner with Minister for Ageing, Kevin Andrews and others.
Keynote address to Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference, Melbourne Meeting with Professor Bob Gregory, Australian National University, Division of Economics, Research School of Social Sciences Seminar hosted by Professor Peter McDonald, Australian National University, Demography & Sociology Program, Research School of Social Sciences Wednesday 19th February Tuesday 25th February Wednesday 26th February Thursday 27th February Friday 28th February Two seminars for the Department of Family and Community Services, in Canberra.
Seminar at Department of Social Enquiry, Adelaide University hosted by Dr Barbara Pocock.
Meeting with Senator the Hon Amanda Vanstone, Minister for Family and Community Services, in Adelaide Seminar at the Centre for Independent Studies, Sydney Meeting with Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Pru Goward, Sydney 41 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: Australian Institute of Family Studies Question No: 153 Topic: Conference Costs Hansard Page: CA447 Written question on notice Senator Moore asked: When you do finalise those costs—because we still do not have the total costs of the conference—can we get that information?
Answer: The total costs to the Institute, including international and domestic airfares, transfers, accommodation, taxes and speaking fees for Dr Hakim’s visit were $13,570.
42 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: Australian Institute of Family Studies Question No: 150 Topic: AIFS Conference Hansard Page: CA445 /Written question on notice Senator Moore asked: How much did the AIFS conference of February 2003 cost?

Answer: Total costs: $208,321 of which $207,940 was recovered from registration fees.
The Institute made a contribution of $381.80 from core funds.
43 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: Australian Institute of Family Studies Question No: 154 Topic: National Child Protection Clearinghouse Hansard Page: CA447 Written question on notice Senator Moore asked: Please provide a list of what research and policy advice the clearing house has been asked to provide in the past two years?
Across the board: what has your clearinghouse been used to clear?

Answer: Research and Policy Advice Over the past two financial years (2000/01 to 2002/03) Clearinghouse staff made approximately 130- 140 responses per month to requests for advice.

An overview of the topics covered in stakeholder requests is provided below.
Aspects of child maltreatment • Definitions of the types of maltreatment • The ‘signs’ or risk factors that a child is being maltreated • Abuse of adolescents • Adolescent sex offenders • Autism • Indigenous communities • Internet • Perpetrators • Physical punishment • Youth suicide • Child deaths • Children’s exposure to domestic violence • Parents with a mental disorder • Parents or children with disabilities • Substance –abusing parents • Female sex offenders • Munchausen’s by proxy • Neglect (esp.
chronic neglect) • The role of family structure • Single parent and blended families • The role of poverty 44 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Effects of child abuse • Causes and effects of child maltreatment • Cause and risk factors for sexual abuse: - Sexualised behaviour - Revictimisation and/or re-offending • The short and long-term effects of child maltreatment: Intergenerational abuse – the ‘cycle of violence’ - - Firesetting Child and family support ‘One stop shop’ service models • Community education campaigns & information resources • Early intervention programs • • Dance/drama therapy • Engaging men in responding to child maltreatment • Facilitated communication • Guidelines for people working with children and the development of staff police checks and assessments Interagency coordination and communication • • Parent education programs (and the effectiveness of particular models) • Professional training programs • Programs for children who have been exposed to parental domestic violence • Sex offender programs: - Recidivism - Child offender programs • The role of mediation services • The role of schools: - - - peer programs personal safety programs healthy relationship programs • Trends in the provision of preventative programs • Youth services & youth participation in decision making Child protection services • Review or comparison of: - State/Territory statutory services - International policies and practice Interagency coordination and communication • • Risk assessment practice • Specific programs (e.g.
intake call centres) • Current issues in service provision • Future directions in service provision • Reporting of child abuse, including mandatory reporting • Worker issues including stress and/or burnout in child protection services 45 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Out-of-home care • The nature (and changes to the provision) of out-of-home care services: - Adoption & temporary care - Kinship foster care - - Permanency planning Institutional or systems abuse Indigenous out-of-home care • Preventing child abuse and other family violence • Balancing prevention – undertaking secondary (‘at risk’ families) and tertiary (maltreating families) prevention • The relationship between statutory child protection services and the wider family support system • Key strategies to prevent child abuse and neglect • Risk and protective factors – promoting resiliency • Preventing sexual assault • Prevention in rural-remote communities Research & program evaluation • Adapting research for practice: - Evidence-based practice - Program evaluations & measures of effectiveness - Cost/benefits studies of child abuse prevention (and programs) Incidence of child maltreatment • Statistics on: - - Prevalence studies - National child protection statistics - Child deaths Other • Advice on the process of moderating electronic discussion lists • • International use of salary levies to fund spending on child protection and out-of-home care Identification of other key centres, researchers and/or consultants What does the Clearinghouse clear?
As part of the Clearinghouse advisory role, the Australian Institute of Family Studies maintains a Help Desk service in the Institute’s library.

The Help Desk is staffed by experienced reference librarians who answer general queries from stakeholders regarding child abuse and child abuse prevention.

These requests are received via telephone, fax, mail, email, or can be delivered in person.
Staff respond to queries by drawing on the resources of the research library and all in-house databases, and can also access external on-line and Internet services, when necessary.

46 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Requests for more specialised information and advice are referred to the Clearinghouse research staff.
In responding to requests, research staff undertake tasks ranging from: reviewing policy and other written material; contributing to government reviews and inquiries; • providing specialised literature searches; • • • producing written analyses or briefing documents on particular topics; • • • assisting service providers to develop program evaluations; contributing or developing seminars or other presentations; conducting site visits or meetings with stakeholders to provide advice on policy or practice issues; and, facilitating interagency networking by identifying other key centres, researchers and/or consultants with whom contact may be beneficial.
• The Clearinghouse distributes is publications to a free mailing list of 7800 members (as of June 2003).

Approximately one fifth of the current Clearinghouse mail list is comprised of government agencies and staff (federal, state and local), ensuring that Clearinghouse material is widely disseminated and utilised in the government sphere.
The provision of specialist advice to policy makers, in particular the Australian Council for Children and Parenting (ACCAP) and personnel from the Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services – is undertaken as required.

The Clearinghouse has established strong relationships with relevant Commonwealth departments and agencies, with State and Territory statutory child protection departments, and a range of criminal justice, health and education departments.
This has been achieved, in part, via the provision of specialist advice on aspects of child maltreatment, child protection, child abuse prevention and the relationship between child maltreatment and other forms of family violence.

This advice has taken the form of responding to requests for advice, conducting literature searches, providing briefings, seminars, presentations and via the completion of contracted research tasks.
Web Pages Downloaded On-line access to the Clearinghouse Website provides a further means of demonstrating the information provision role played by the Clearinghouse.
Clearinghouse Web site total Year 2001-2002 250,780 2002-2003 (until May 31) 337,787 Clearinghouse Publications 143,435 211,438 47 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: Australian Institute of Family Studies Question No: 155 Topic: National Child Protection Clearinghouse Hansard Page: CA448 Written question on notice Senator Moore asked: What kinds of requests you have had from government in terms of research in the past two years?
Answer: In addition to providing specialist advice to government departments and agencies (at the Commonwealth, State and Local levels), the Clearinghouse has received and responded to a number of requests to undertake primary and secondary research projects.

2001-02 In 2001-02, the Clearinghouse undertook two contract-funded secondary analyses of key child protection issues.
• A report was completed for the South Australian Department of Human Services focused on the identification of strategic directions in child protection practice.

• A report was prepared on child maltreatment in Aboriginal communities for the Western Australian Government Inquiry into Responses by Government Agencies to Complaints of Family Violence and Child Abuse in Aboriginal Communities.
2002-03 In 2002, the Clearinghouse explored the feasibility of tendering for a comparative study assessing the relative costs (per child) of providing child protection services in each Australian state and territory for the Productivity Commission.

However, the study was not undertaken because of pre-existing projects.
In 2003, the Clearinghouse assisted the NSW Department of Community Services (via the NSW Parenting and Research Centre) to develop a child protection research strategy and with advice on the development and effectiveness of risk assessment measures, and the re- development of child protection intake services.
In June 2003, the NSW Department of Community Services requested the Clearinghouse to consider tendering for a short-term study of the efficacy of risk assessment measures for the NSW child protection system.

This offer was not taken up as the project was not considered suitable at the time.
48 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: All ......................................................................................Question No: 165 Topic: Hansard Page: Written question on notice Senator Bishop asked: 1.
As at the Budget 2003-2004 please provide the latest detailed four year forward estimates expenditure for all administered appropriations across all output groups (including final estimates for 2002-2003)?

2.

As at the Budget 2003-2004 please provide the latest detailed four year forward estimates of customer numbers for each administered payment across all output groups (including final estimates for 2002-2003)?

3.
3.

As at the Budget 2003-2004 please provide the latest detailed four year forward estimates of average payment rates for each administered payment across all output groups (including final estimates for 2002-2003)?

Answer: Attachment A summarises the expenditure estimates for the FaCS portfolio for 2002-03 to 2006-07, current as at the 2003-04 Budget.
These estimates reflect assumptions about economic parameters (the unemployment rate, CPI, and Male Total Average Weekly Earnings), expected changes in customer numbers and the expected impacts of announced policy changes.

Accordingly, the estimates are revised regularly as assumptions are refined in the light of emerging trends.
Attachment B summarises the customer numbers relating to the special appropriation payments for the FaCS portfolio for 2002-03 to 2006-07, current as at the current as at the 2003-04 Budget.

Attachment C summarises the average payment rates of customers relating to the special appropriation payments for the FaCS portfolio for 2002-03 to 2006-07, current as at the 2003-04 Budget.
49 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Family and Community Services Portfolio - 2003-04 Budget Estimates Forward Estimates of Administered Expenses Attachment A Administered Item Outcome 1 Stronger Families Items applicable across Outcome 1 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 $m $m $m $m $m Ex Gratia - payments and savings provisions for DVA pensioners receiving Family Tax Benefit A and Child Care Benefit National Secretariats ts to Universities and other organisations for special studies and research Sub-Total 0.527 0.683 0.081 1.291 0.541 0.694 0.083 1.318 0.553 0.702 0.085 1.340 0.553 0.711 0.086 1.350 0.553 0.720 0.088 1.361 Output Group 1.1 - Family Assistance Child Abuse Prevention Family Adjustment Payment Grants to Family Relationship Support Organisations (including payments under the Family Law Act 1975 and the Marriage Act 1961) Indigenous parenting and Family Well-being Services for Families with Children 4.021 0.020 4.113 0.000 4.208 0.000 4.300 0.000 4.395 0.000 27.719 29.515 30.176 30.833 31.503 2.084 7.941 1.869 8.047 1.912 8.142 1.956 8.230 2.001 8.319 Stronger Families & Communities Strategy - Families Initiatives 17.999 27.197 32.104 32.841 33.598 Family and Youth Support (National Illicit Drug Strategy) SPP Services for families with children SPP Double Orphan Pension Family Tax Benefit Maternity Allowances Sub-Total 4.875 0.371 2.015 0.000 0.376 2.063
Sub-Total Output Group 1.2 - Youth and Students Support Green Corps Job Placement, Employment and Training Program Mentor Marketplace Reconnect (Youth Homelessness) Targeted Youth Assistance Programme Transition to Independent Living Allowance Youth Activities Services Youth Allowance - Ex-Gratia Payments to Former
 Recipients in South Australia Austudy Payment Fares Allowance Student Financial Supplement Scheme Youth Allowance Sub-Total Output Group 1.3 - Child Support Child Support Agency - Payments to cover cheque dishonours 3.606 4.209 4.633 5.099 5.609 Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988 - Payment to cover shortfalls in the Child Support Trust Account Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988 - Unexplained Remittances Sub-Total 81.404 90.585 95.114 99.823 104.864 0.149 85.159 0.180 94.974 0.189 0.198 0.208 99.936 105.120 110.681 50 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group 1.4 - Child Care Support Child Care Assistance Child Care for eligible parents undergoing training Support for Child Care Support for Childcare SPP Child Care Benefit Sub-Total 1.000 14.043 0.000 14.969 0.000 15.354 0.000 15.735 0.000 16.125 180.906 191.523 195.268 198.901 202.605 10.301
 9.520 9.728 9.931 10.138 1,479.563 1,595.632 1,722.571 1,849.728 1,981.508 1,685.813 1,811.644 1,942.921 2,074.295 2,210.376 Total Stronger Families 15,422.643 16,198.166 16,822.750 17,465.929 18,052.450 Outcome 2 Stronger Communities Items applicable across Outcome 2 National Secretariats Sub-Total Output Group 2.1 - Housing Support Family homelessness Prevention and Early intervention pilot National Housing Priorities National Housing Research Supported Accommodation Assistance Program - National
 Priorities Commonwealth State Housing Agreement (for expenditure under the Housing Assistance Act 1996) Social Housing Subsidy Program Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (for expenditure under the Supported Accommodation Assistance Act 1994) Sub-Total Output Group 2.2 - Community Support Business and Community Sector Partnerships Emergency Relief Program Ex gratia payments to victims of the Bali disaster and family members of victims Family and Community Network Initiative Indigenous housing and infrastructure - expand the supply of healthy housing National Research on Gambling Payments under s.33 of FMA Act 1997 Payments under special circumstances Reimbursements to Great Southern Rail for concessional fares Stronger Families & Communities Strategy - Communities Initiatives Volunteer Management Program Compensation for extension of fringe benefits to pensioners and older long term allowees and beneficiaries Concessions for Commonwealth Seniors Health Card Holders SPP National Reciprocal Transport Concessions for State Seniors Card Holders Sub-Total 0.822
Total Stronger Communities 1,448.261 1,406.980 1,464.356 1,473.354 1,494.930 51 Senate Community
 Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Outcome 3 Economic and Social Participation Items applicable across Outcome 3 National Secretariats Payments to Universities and other organisations for special studies and research Sub-Total Output Group 3.1 - Labour Market Assistance Payment to voluntary work agencies Personal Support Program Welfare Reform Consultative Forum Bereavement Allowance Mature Age Allowance Newstart Allowance Parenting Payment (Partnered and Single) 5,742.173 5,948.075 6,169.719 6,499.182 6,863.051 Partner Allowance (Benefit) Partner Allowance (Pension) Pensioner Education Supplement Special Benefit Widow Allowance Sub-Total Output Group 3.2 - Support for People with a Disability Rehabilitation Services 0.000 129.048 156.597 161.582 165.905 Employment Assistance and Other Services (including
 expenditure under the Disability Services Act 1986) Commonwealth/State Disability Agreement Disability Support Pension Mobility Allowance Sickness Allowance Wife Pension (DSP) Sub-Total Output Group 3.3 - Support for Carers Carer Allowance Carer Payment Sub-Total Output Group 3.4 - Support for the Aged 309.496 532.034 367.659 548.738 432.053 565.811 490.553 582.694 524.362 599.931 6,900.272 7,207.256 7,254.395 7,444.808 7,705.672 75.216 85.197 84.390 90.107 358.899 326.052 93.867 105.255 286.617 104.933
National Information Centre on Retirement Investments 0.452 0.462 0.471 0.481 0.491 Age Pension Self Funded Retirees' Supplementary Bonus Telephone allowance for Commonwealth Seniors Health Card Holders Widow B Pension Wife Pension (Age) Sub-Total Total Economic & Social Participation 40,198.594 42,264.923 44,517.436 46,535.974 48,731.488 Total Portfolio Administered Appropriations 57,069.498 59,870.069 62,804.542 65,475.257 68,278.868 52 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Family and Community Services Portfolio 2003-04 Budget Estimates Customers Administered Items Age Pension Austudy Payment Bereavement Allowance Carer Allowance Adult Carer Allowance Child Carer Payment Disability Support Pension Double Orphan Pension Family Tax Benefit A Family Tax Benefit B Maternity Allowances Mature Age Allowance Mobility Allowance Newstart Allowance Parenting Payment (Partnered)
 Parenting Payment (Single) Partner Allowance (Benefit) Partner Allowance (Pension) Pensioner Education Supplement Sickness Allowance Special Benefit Widow Allowance Widow B Pension Wife Pension (Age) Wife Pension (DSP) Youth Allowance 2002/03 1,840,552 35,706 58 161,763 134,670 71,879 666,330 1,541 3,429,284 1,207,089 346,699 40,403 42,948 560,071 194,339 439,095 43,224 60,665 48,596 9,245 12,407 42,740 3,930 21,751 40,574 382,571 2003/04 1,871,647 35,477 58 178,338 109,748 82,024 670,544 1,525 3,405,379
 1,197,974 347,032 37,494 46,298 561,341 183,305 445,116 33,858 57,223 54,046 9,351 13,633 46,517 2,706 18,869 35,239 374,080 2004/05 1,909,132 35,173 59 189,889 105,549 93,171 653,245 1,525 3,418,002 1,210,976 347,664 28,781 50,097 631,082 174,731 454,590 17,950 42,239 59,872 10,618 16,469 50,370 1,741 15,319 29,947 372,496 Attachment B 2005/06 1,941,603 35,281 59 201,482 108,712 105,346 647,107 1,525 3,431,047 1,223,972 348,218 17,393 54,295 657,374 168,882 465,836 5,753 25,985 65,164 11,803 19,380 55,114 1,143 12,292 25,337 371,280 2006/07 1,982,511 35,632 60 213,069 111,967 119,320 646,900 1,525 3,444,120 1,237,397 348,757 10,367 59,408 645,403 164,481 478,246 5,236 24,278 71,079 11,920 20,204 59,141 603 9,986 20,979 369,261 53 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Family and Community Services Portfolio 2003-04 Budget Estimates Average Rates $ Attachment C Administered Items Age Pension Austudy Payment Bereavement Allowance Carer Allowance Adult Carer Allowance Child Carer Payment Disability Support Pension Double Orphan Pension Family Tax Benefit A Family Tax Benefit B Maternity Allowances Mature Age Allowance Mobility Allowance Newstart Allowance Parenting Payment (Partnered) Parenting Payment (Single) Partner Allowance (Benefit) Partner Allowance (Pension) Pensioner Education Supplement Sickness Allowance Special Benefit Widow
 Allowance Widow B Pension Wife Pension (Age) Wife Pension (DSP) Youth Allowance 2002/03 370.02 285.49 623.62 94.84 97.27 376.34 396.82 50.07 94.58 77.80 627.72 362.08 66.95 331.16 270.95 382.76 311.77 321.75 53.93 355.16 356.31 385.39 405.96 347.97 340.28 225.71 2003/04 384.44 305.67 634.45 97.27 101.52 390.40 411.63 51.75 98.38 79.61 639.14 372.31 69.49 337.98 277.40 397.17 320.68 332.26 52.77 368.79 376.94 394.94 417.57 363.61 354.79 234.61 2004/05 398.90 321.46 642.30 99.63 105.66 405.34 426.37 52.73
 101.36 83.13 653.23 377.57 71.61 351.66 283.85 411.64 327.43 349.34 55.90 377.63 390.46 403.72 432.52 378.85 369.05 243.88 2005/06 414.92 329.34 657.91 101.89 109.61 421.80 441.79 53.85 104.10 86.57 667.83 389.50 73.83 364.81 291.85 428.88 322.08 369.04 55.16 387.66 399.41 414.83 447.24 395.67 383.08 250.49 2006/07 430.68 338.18 666.12 104.29 113.71 439.09 456.23 55.13 106.03 90.08 682.48 395.83 76.11 369.32 300.73 446.55 332.34 376.02 54.47 399.60 411.80 425.45 453.90 411.51 395.22 257.04 54 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: All Question No: 144 Topic: Budget Measures Hansard Page: CA312 Senator Mark Bishop asked: The ABN and PAYG are the ATO measures.
They were funded in the 2001-02 Budget.

When did you do them?

Answer: Both initiatives were part of the Research and Development Measures in the 2001–02 Budget.

Both initiatives were 2 year feasibility studies.

The ABN initiative commenced on 1 July 2001 and the PAYG initiative on 1 October 2001.
55 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: All Question No: 145 Topic: Budget Measures Hansard Page: CA314 Senator Mark Bishop asked: please provide the customer groups that are going to be targeted for the expanded data matching reviews and then, within that, the order of priority to each of the customer groups.
Answer: The customer groups that will be affected based on the 125,000 additional reviews are: Age Pension Austudy Carer Payment Disability Support Pension Newstart Allowance Parenting Payment Partnered Parenting Payment Single Partner Allowance Sickness Allowance Special Benefit Widows Allowance Youth Allowance 4% 0.8% 1% 6.5% 48.4% 8.6% 12.5% 1.7% 0.3% 0.4% 0.5% 15.3% There is no order of priority.

The estimates were based on historical performance of data-matching exercises.
56 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 REVISED METHODOLOGY FOR FTB RECONCILIATION RESULTS FaCS and Centrelink have recently revised the methodology for calculating the number of top-up payments and overpayments that occur after a family’s entitlement to Family Tax Benefit is reconciled at the time of tax assessment.
The new methodology more accurately reflects the overall net outcome for families who have a re-reconciliation.

At the end of each financial year a family’s actual entitlement to Family Tax Benefit is determined when both partners (where applicable) have lodged their tax returns.

Some families may have a subsequent reconciliation as a result of new income details or other changes in circumstances becoming available.
Previously, only the effect of the last reconciliation, rather than the combined net effect of all reconciliations was counted.

Under the revised methodology, the overall net outcome for individual customers is captured.

Previously released figures have been revised to provide a consistent time series that will allow analysis of trend data.
Example 1 The following example shows how the new methodology differs from previously released data for 2000-01: • A customer who received a $200 credit on the first reconciliation but a subsequent nil adjustment on the second reconciliation is now measured as a $200 top-up, rather than a nil adjustment.
Example 2 The following example shows how the new methodology differs from previously released data for 2000-01, and 2001-02: • A customer who received a $600 top-up on the first reconciliation but a subsequent adjustment of a $400 debit on the second reconciliation is now measured as a $200 top-up, rather than a $400 overpayment.

The reconciliation of lump sum claimants through the tax system has been included for the first time in the total reconciliation result.
Re-reconciliations of lump sum claims occur if the original payment was based on an estimate of the partner’s income and the claimant’s actual income.

The number of top-ups or overpayments for lump sum customers is only 1% of total top-ups and overpayments.
57 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Question No: 172 Output Group: 1.1 Family Assistance, 1.4 Child Care Support.......................................... Topic: Child Care Benefit Debt Hansard Page: CA301 Proof Committee Hansard, Wednesday 4 June 2003 – (Now CA 430 Official Committee Hansard) Senator Collins asked: Could you provide me, over today and tomorrow, a comparison on amounts of debts let us say going up every $200?
Senator Bishop asked - can we have that for CCB and FTB and the comparison years in $100 or $200 bands, whatever is available?

Answer: Information provided below as at 27 June 2003 is for 2001-02 only.

It is not possible to provide a comparison between 2000-01 and 2001-02 because the $1,000 waiver was applied to debts for 2000-01.

The information has been provided according to income ranges that were readily available.
In each table the number of debts below $1,000 has been further broken down into $100 bands (and into $50 bands for debts below $100).
FTB Debt Amount No of FTB Customers 2001/2002 $0 - $49 $50 - $99 $100 - $199 $200 - $299 $300 - $399 $400 - $499 $500 - $599 $600 - $699 $700 - $799 $800 - $899 $900 - $999 $1000 - $1999 $2000 - $2999 $3000 - $3999 $4000 - $4999 $5000 - $5999 $6000 - $6999 84,637 51,450 70,633 51,545 39,427 33,303 29,292 25,834 22,171 19,945 18,011 114,620 46,733 18,434 8,711 3,910 2,221 58 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 FTB Debt Amount No of FTB Customers 2001/2002 $7000 - $7999 $8000 - $8999 $9000 - $9999 OVER $10000 TOTAL 1,153 651 356 487 643,524 CCB Debt Amount No of CCB Customers 2001/2002 $0 - $49 $50 - $99 $100 - $199 $200 - $299 $300 - $399 $400 - $499 $500 - $599 $600 - $699 $700 - $799 $800 - $899 $900 - $999 $1000 - $1999 $2000 - $2999 $3000 - $3999 $4000 - $4999 $5000 - $5999 $6000 - $6999 $7000 - $7999 $8000 - $8999 $9000 - $9999 OVER $10000 TOTAL 56,485 23,892 26,264 15,595 10,275 7,210 5,412 4,154 3,220 2,521 1,980 8,660 2,067 639 217 95 50 25 10 4 4 168,779 59 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.1 Question No: 24 Topic: Research into annual costs of raising children Hansard Page: Written question on notice Senator Webber asked: 1.
Has the department undertaken any research into the average annual costs of raising children (0-18 years of age) in Australia?

2.

Can this research be provided?

3.

Can this information be provided by age of child?

4.
4.

Can this information be further broken down into specific areas of expenditure, such as: • Accommodation – rental and owned • Food • Clothing • Schooling • Child care • Other expenditures Answer: The department has not recently undertaken any research into the average annual costs of raising children.

In 1999, the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM) prepared a report titled “Estimates of the costs of children in Australian families, 1993-94” for FaCS.
A copy of that research, now somewhat dated, is provided.

It is also available at http://www.facs.gov.au/internet/facsinternet.nsf/aboutfacs/respubs/research- policyrespaperseries_three.htm.

NATSEM also published a similar report in 2003, but this later research was not commissioned by or undertaken for FaCS.
In 2001, FaCS published a research paper titled “Updating Australian budget standards costs of children estimates”, which looks at the costs of children of various ages in different family structures.

Copies of that research paper are attached.

It is also available at http://www.facs.gov.au/internet/facsinternet.nsf/aboutfacs/respubs/research- policyrespaperseries_seven.htm.
60 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.1 Family Assistance Question No: 3 Topic: Family Tax Benefit Written question on notice Senator Webber asked: 1.

How many families have received family tax debts because their child’s income exceeded $8 346?

2.
2.

Of these debts, how many were retrospective debts, raised despite the fact that the Family Assistance Office was notified as soon as the child commenced employment?

3.

What was the average amount of these debts?

4.

How many of these families appealed their debt?

5.

Of these, how many debts were waived?

6.

How many debts were due to the primary caregiver’s income exceeding $11,206 for a child under five, or $8,347 for a child over five?

7.
7.

Of these, how many were debts raised retrospectively, despite the FAO being informed immediately of the change in circumstances?

8.

Of those debts due to the earnings of the primary caregiver, how many of the families earned a combined annual income of less than the cut-off for the maximum rate of FTB(A)?

9.

What was the average amount of these debts?

10.

How many of these families appealed their debt?

11.

Of these, how many debts were waived?

12.


How many recipients have received debt notices because of a subsequent claim for a percentage of the benefit by the other parent under shared care rules?

13.

What was the average amount of these debts?

14.

How many of these debts involved a dispute over shared care percentages?

15.

How many of these families appealed their debt?

16.

Of these, how many debts were waived?

17.

How many debts were due to irregular child support payments?

18.
18.

Of those debts due to the amount of child support received, how many of the recipients were on an annual income of less than the cut-off for the maximum rate of FTB(A)?

19.

What was the average amount of these debts?

61 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 20.

How many of these families appealed their debt?

21.

Of these, how many debts were waived?

22.


How many families who received debt notices this last financial year did so in previous years also?

23.

How many families were made aware of their debt after having their tax return stripped?

24.

What options are available for families to work out their FTB eligibility before lodging their tax returns?

25.

Can a breakdown of the families in receipt of FTB(B) be provided, broken down into primary earner’s income?

26.
26.

How many people have been forced to repay FTB payments because they have been misled by their partner as to their income, and have since separated?

27.

What was the average amount of these debts?

28.

How many of these families appealed their debt?

29.

Of these, how many debts were waived?

30.

How many instances are there of debts that have been found to be entirely due to circumstances beyond the person’s control?

31.
31.

Of these, how many were still required to repay the debt after it was determined that the family did not meet the added hardship requirement?

Answer: 1.

943 debts were raised in the period March to June for the 2001/2002 financial year.

Prior to this time these debts could not be separately identified.

3,779 debts were raised in the period July to March for the 2002/2003 financial year.

2.
2.

If it becomes unknown that the child’s taxable income has exceeded or is likely to exceed the cut-out amount during the income year, the child is no longer considered to be an FTB child for that entire year.

Entitlement is reassessed immediately to prevent any further incorrect payments.

3.

Average debt was $919.92 in the period March to June for the 2001/2002 financial year.

Prior to this time these debts could not be separately identified.
Average debt was $640.67 in the period July to March for the 2002/2003 financial year.

4.

As at 31 March 2003, 100 customers had asked for a review of their child income debts.

5.

49 of the total number of debts raised in the period March to June for the 2001/2002 financial year, as advised in the answer to Question 3.1, were waived.
62 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 As at 31 March 2003, 503 of the total number of debts advised in the answer to Question No.

3.1 have been waived in the 2002/2003 financial year.

6-11.

This level of information is not available because the Centrelink debt database does not record this level of detail.

12.
12.

Family Assistance Office procedures involve verifying the care arrangements with both parents before payment is made.

A debt because of a subsequent claim by the other parent will only arise where a parent fails to advise the Family Assistance Office of the shared care arrangement when they claim their entitlement, and in effect claims more than they are entitled to.

As at 31 March 2003, 7,190 shared care percentage reduction debts have been raised in 2002/2003.

See also answer to Question 3.26.


13.

As at 31 March 2003, the average amount of a shared care percentage reduction debt for 2002/2003 was $412.31.

14.

This level of information is not available from the Centrelink debt database.

15.

As at 31 March 2003, 267 customers had asked for a review of their shared care debts.

16.

As at 31 March 2003, 1601 shared care percentage reduction debts have been waived in 2002/2003.

17-21.
17-21.

This level of information is not available because the Centrelink debt database does not record this level of detail.

22.

As at 28 March 2003, 276,838 customers had incurred a FTB overpayment in both the 2000/2001 and 2001/2002 financial years, but 192,040 or 69% had their first overpayment waived.

23.

As at 20 June 2003, 232,278 customers had their FTB overpayments partially or fully recovered from their tax returns for the 2001-2002 year.
All these families were made aware of their debt upon receipt of their tax notice of assessment.

Tax refund offsetting has been included in FTB forms and information products since July 2000.

It is also explained in the 2002 Tax Pack.

63 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 24.

Options available are: 1.


Family Assistance Estimator The Family Assistance Estimator is an online service available through the Family Assistance website www.familyassist.gov.au.

Customers can use this online tool to work out their possible entitlement to Family Tax Benefit and Child Care Benefit.

2.

Family Tax Benefit Calculator The Family Tax Benefit Calculator is an online service available through the Australian Taxation Office website www.ato.gov.au .
This service is primarily used by tax practitioners and customers who have chosen to receive their Family Tax Benefit payment as a lump sum through the Tax Office at the end of the income (financial) year.

3.

Family Assistance Offices/Call Centres Customers can either telephone or visit the Family Assistance Office to discuss their family assistance entitlement.

4.
4.

Family Assistance Publications A number of Family Assistance publications are available from all Family Assistance Offices and electronically via the Family Assistance Office (www.familyassist.gov.au) and Centrelink (www.centrelink.gov.au) websites.

The publications provide an overview of the payments available to families, the eligibility criteria, payment rates and income thresholds.

Publications include: FAO Guide to Payments; the Centrelink Guide to Commonwealth Government payments.

25.
25.

The income test for FTB B is based on the secondary earner’s income in couple families.

Sole parents are entitled to maximum rate FTB B irrespective of income.

The numbers below include 579,288 sole parents.

The table below shows the breakdown for FTB B fortnightly recipients as at 4 April 2003.
Primary earner’s income $0 or less More than $0 to $5,000 More than $5,000 to $10,000 More than $10,000 to $15,000 More than $15,000 to $20,000 More than $20,000 to $25,000 More than $25,000 to $30,000 More than $30,000 to $35,000 More than $35,000 to $40,000 More than $40,000 to $45,000 More than $45,000 to $50,000 More than $50,000 to $55,000 More than $55,000 to $60,000 More than $60,000 Total Number of FTB(B) customers 270,172 28,938 131,040 76,806 61,447 66,296 96,326 80,433 76,716 62,344 58,659 45,997 39,877 115,347 1,210,398 64 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 26.
It is not possible for Centrelink to know whether an ex-partner has misled a customer about income details.

However, where a customer separates during the financial year, the customer will not receive an overpayment relating to that year.

27-31.

Please refer to Question No.

3.26.


65 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.1 Family Assistance Question No: 160 Topic: Family Tax Benefit 1-14, 23-27 Written question on notice Senator Bishop asked: 1.

Could an update of Table 5 - page 27 of the FaCS 2001-2002 Annual report (Vol 2) be provided with the latest available figures?

2.
2.

What is the current average fortnightly payment rate for each of the FTB customer groups detailed in the above table?

3.

In respect to FTB-A families who receive payments fortnightly what is the actual average Adjusted Taxable Income (ATI) for: i) Families who receive the maximum rate (with income support payment)?

ii) Families who receive the maximum rate (without income support payment)?

iii) Families who receive a broken rate?

iv) Families who receive the base rate?


v) Families who receive below the base rate?

4.

In respect to each of the customer groups in Q 3 (above) please provide the distribution of families with ATI's in $2,500 bands?

5.

How many families receive FTB-A for: i) one child only?

ii) two children?

iii) three children?

iv) four children?

v) five or more children?

6.

What is the average ATI for each of the family sizes in Q 5 (above) 7.
For each year since 2000-2001: i) how many families have claimed their FTB-A as a fortnightly payment?

ii) how many families have claimed their FTB-A as a lump sum through Centrelink?

iii) how many families have claimed their FTB-A as a lump sum through the ATO?

iv) how many families have claimed their FTB-A as a reduced tax witholding?

v) what was the total value of FTB-A payments paid through each of the above means?

8.
8.

For each year since 2000-2001, of families who claimed their FTB-A as a lump sum through Centrelink and the ATO, how many were entitled to: i) the maximum rate?

ii) a broken rate?

iii) the base rate?

iv) below the base rate?

66 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 9.

For each year since 2000-2001 i) how many families have claimed their FTB-B as a fortnightly payment?
ii) how many families have claimed their FTB-B as a lump sum through Centrelink?

iii) how many families have claimed their FTB-B as a lump sum through the ATO?

iv) how many families have claimed their FTB-B as a reduced tax witholding?

v) what was the total value of FTB-B payments paid through each of the above means?

10. i) For 2001-2002 how many families lodged a claim and were granted FTB-B for a child under 5?
ii) In that year how many families who were claiming FTB-B for a child under five stopped receiving the payment due to their income exceeding the maximum allowable amount?

iii) What was the average fortnightly duration of FTB-B receipt for a child under five during 2001-2002?

11. i) For 2001-2002 how many families claiming FTB-B for a child under 5 received the maximum rate, and broken rate?

ii) For those receiving the broken rate what was their average FTB-B ATI?
12. i) For families without income support what was the estimated average family ATI for 2001-2002?

ii) What was the actual average family ATI for 2001-2002 after reconciliation (YTD figures will suffice)?

13.

For families without income support what was is the estimated average family ATI for 2002-2003?

14.

For families without income support what was is the current estimated average family ATI for 2003-2004?

15.
15.

What is the net additional annual cost of indexing the lower FTB-A income threshold from $30,806 to $31,755 for 2003-2004?

16.

What is the net additional annual cost of indexing the upper FTB-A income threshold from $79,643 to $82,052 for 2003-2004?

17.

What is the net additional annual cost of providing an each additional child amount of $3,285 in addition to the upper FTB-A income threshold?

18.
18.

What is the net additional annual cost of increasing each of the maximum rates and base rates of FTB-A for 2003-2004?

19.

If the additional cost of each of the items listed in Q 15-18 cannot be provided separately what is the detailed costing methodology that was used to determine the net budget impact of the indexation of FTB-A from 1 July 2003?
67 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 20.

What is the net additional annual cost of indexing the FTB-B income free area from $1,752 to $1,825 for 2003-2004?

21.

What is the net additional annual cost of indexing each of the maximum FTB-B payment rates for 2003-2004?

22.
22.

If the additional cost of each of the items listed in Q 20 & 21 cannot be provided separately what is the detailed costing methodology that was used to determine the net budget impact of the indexation of FTB-B from 1 July 2003?

23.

Using the latest available information about families who receive Family Tax Benefit fortnightly: i) How many families receive FTB-A only?

ii) How many families receive FTB-A and FTB-B?

iii)How many families receive FTB-B only?

24.


Of those families who receive both FTB-A and FTB-B fortnightly how many receive: i) the maximum rate of FTB-A?

ii) a broken rate of FTB-A?

iii) the base rate of FTB-A?

iv) less than the base rate of FTB-A?

25.

How many families who claimed a lump sum payment of FTB for the 2000-2001 FTB income year through Centrelink or claimed through the ATO: i) received FTB-A only?

ii) received FTB-A and FTB-B?

iii) received FTB-B only?

26.


Of those families who received a lump sum payment comprising FTB-A and FTB-B through Centrelink or the ATO for the 2000-2001 FTB income year how many received: i) the maximum rate of FTB-A?

ii) a broken rate of FTB-A?

iii) the base rate of FTB-A?

iv) less than the base rate of FTB-A?

27. i) Please provide for the 2000-01 year and 2001-02 year (to date) the number of Families by state with FTB debts, CCB debts?
ii) Please provide for the 2000-01 year and 2001-02 year (to date) by state, the value of FTB debts, CCB debts?

68 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Answer: 1.

The most up to date data available is as at 30 May 2003 (see Table 160.1(a), below).
Table 160.1 (a) Family Tax Benefit—number of clients assisted fortnightly (as at 30 May 2003) PAYMENT TYPE NUMBER OF FAMILIES NUMBER OF CHILDREN Family Tax Benefit Part A Maximum rate (with income support payment) Maximum rate (without income support payment) Broken rate Base rate Below base rate Not specifiedª Total With Rent Assistance Family Tax Benefit Part B Maximum rate Sole parents Couples Not specifiedª Total Broken rate Couples Total Sole parents Couples Not specifiedª Total The above numbers do not include clients claiming through tax system.
ª Customers in this group have not been allocated a payment type code.

 2.
The current average fortnightly payment rates for each of the customer groups in Table 5, page 27 of the FaCS 2001-02 Annual Report (Vol 2) are detailed in the table 160.1(b) below.
69 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Table 160.1(b) Family Tax Benefit—average fortnightly payments for customer groups (as at 30 May 2003) PAYMENT TYPE AVERAGE PAYMENT Family Tax Benefit Part A Maximum rate (with income support payment) Maximum rate (without income support payment) Broken rate Base rate Below base rate Not specifiedª Total With Rent Assistance Family Tax Benefit Part B Maximum rate Sole parents Couples Not specifiedª Total Broken rate Couples Total Sole parents Couples Not specifiedª Total Average Payment of FTB(A) $273.20 $232.30 $216.90 $73.10 $48.20 $43.00 $172.90 $298.30 Average Payment of FTB(B) $83.80 $90.00 $84.00 $86.00 $42.10 $83.80 $65.90 $84.00 $74.50 The above numbers do not include clients claiming through tax system.
ª Customers in this group have not been allocated a payment type code.

3.
As at 20 June 2003 the actual average Adjusted Taxable Income (ATI) for customers who were in receipt of FTB A on 28 June 2002 is: i) Customers who receive the maximum rate (with income support) : $21,199.04 ii) Customers who receive the maximum rate (without income support) : $30,134.27 iii) Customers who receive a broken rate : $33,763.81 iv) Customers who receive a base rate : $57,450.25 v) Customers who receive below the base rate (tapered base) : $82,052.07 Averages provided exclude customers with a zero income.
4.

Table below shows the distribution of customers with actual ATI as at 20 June 2003 in $2500 bands for customers who were in receipt of FTB-A for 2001/2002 financial year as at 28 June 2002.

* The actual income figures in the table below are taken from records provided to Centrelink by the Australian Taxation Office.

Where a customer and/or their partner either has not lodged a return, or those records have not yet been provided by the ATO, they are included in the '$0' income group.
In addition, the classification of a person's 70 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 rate into broken, base, taper etc can change over a financial year, thus in order to simplify reporting we use a snapshot of their rate classification at the end of the relevant financial year.
Please note: this means that there will be a certain proportion of cases, where the rate classification at the end of the financial year does not match a customer's full year actual income.

71 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Table 160.4: Family Tax Benefit recipients for 2001/02 financial year by their Adjusted Taxable Income in $2500 bands (as at 28 June 2002).
ADJUSTED TAXABLE INCOME BROKEN RATE BASE RATE FTB(A) RATE TYPE MAXIMU M RATE ON INCOME SUPPORT MAXIMU M RATE NOT ON INCOME SUPPORT TAPER RATE TOTAL $0* More than $0-$2,500 More than $2500-$5,000 More than $5000-$7,500 More than $7500-$10000 More than $10000-$12500 More than $12500-$15000 More than $15000-$17500 More than $17500-$20000 More than $20000-$22500 More than $22500-$25000 More than $25000-$27500 More than $27500-$30000 More than $30000-$32500 More than $32500-$35000 More than $35000-$37500 More than $37500-$40000 More than $40000-$42500 More than $42500-$45000 More than $45000-$47500 More than $47500-$50000 More than $50000-$52500 More than $52500-$55000 More than $55000-$57500 More than $57500-$60000 More than $60000 TOTAL * See the note above.
5.
The table below specifies the number of families who receive FTB(A) by the number of FTB(A) children in that family.
Table 160.5: Family Tax Benefit(A)—Number of families by number of FTB(A) eligible children (as at 30 May 2003) NUMBER OF FTB(A) ELIGIBLE CHILDREN NUMBER OF FAMILIES PROPORTION OF FAMILIES Family Tax Benefit Part A One child only Two children Three children Four children Five or more children TOTAL 72 677,179 700,769 294,707 83,280 27,593 1,783,528 38.0% 39.3% 16.5% 4.7% 1.5% 100.0% Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 6.
The table below shows the combined estimated average Adjusted Taxable Income (ATI) of both the customer and partner who receive FTB(A) by the number of FTB(A) children in that family.

Actual average ATI for the 2002/2003 financial year is not available until customers have lodged their tax returns.
Table 160.6: Family Tax Benefit(A)— Estimated average Adjusted Taxable Income estimate by number of FTB(A) eligible children (as at 30 May 2003) NUMBER OF FTB(A) ELIGIBLE CHILDREN AVERAGE ESTIMATED ATI (of customer and partner) Family Tax Benefit Part A One child only Two children Three children Four children Five or more children TOTAL $30,072.80 $39,139.20 $40,024.10 $37,140.50 $31,153.50 $35,626.20 7.

This information is currently not available.

8.


As at 28 June 2002, of the customers who claimed their 2000/2001 FTB A entitlement as a lump sum with the ATO: i) 12,342 were entitled to a maximum rate; ii) 6,774 were entitled to a broken rate; iii) 66,752 were entitled to a base rate; and iv) 0 were entitled to below the base rate.
As at 13 June 2003, of the customers who claimed their 2001/2002 FTB A entitlement as a lump sum with the ATO: i) 11,514 were entitled to a maximum rate; ii) 3,382 were entitled to a broken rate; iii) 62,100 were entitled to a base rate; and iv) 20 were entitled to below the base rate.

Please note: as a person's rate type can change over a financial year depending on changes in their circumstances, this information is based on the customer's final rate type for the relevant year.
Information on Centrelink lump sum claims is not broken down to this level.

9.

This information is currently not available.

10. i) This level of information is not available from the Centrelink database.

As at 28 June 2002, 609,709 customers with at least one child under the age of five were in 73 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 receipt of FTB B.
However, this figure includes claims made during the 2000/2001 financial year and does not include claims made through the ATO.

ii) This level of information is not available from the Centrelink database.

iii) This level of information is not available from the Centrelink database.

11. i) As at 28 June 2002, 395,480 families claiming FTB(B) for a child under 5 were receiving the maximum rate, and 214,229 families were receiving the broken rate.
ii) The average FTB(B) ATI of the secondary earner for customers receiving FTB(B) broken rate was $6,074.47.

12. i) The estimated average family ATI for 2001-02 for families receiving FTB without income support was $42,004.22 per annum, as at 28 June 2002. ii) For customers in receipt of FTB as at 28 June 2002, the actual average Adjusted Taxable Income after reconciliation as at 20 June 2003 was $41,895.02.
Note: Actual income figures used are as at 20 June 2003 and are subject to further change as more customers lodge their tax returns.

Averages provided exclude customers with a zero income.

13.

As at 30 May 2003, the estimated average family ATI for 2002-03 for families receiving FTB without income support was $44,676.53 per annum.

14.

This information is not available until 2003/2004 financial year.
At the beginning of each financial year, Centrelink asks customers to update their income estimates for the year.

23.

As at 30 May 2003: i) 597,130 families received FTB(A) only.

ii) 1,186,398 families received both FTB(A) and FTB(B).

iii) 28,391 families received FTB(B) only.

74 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 24.
The table below shows the number of families who receive both FTB(A) and FTB(B) broken down by FTB(A) payment type.

Table 160.

24: Family Tax Benefit(A)—Number of families entitled to FTB(A) and FTB(B), by FTB(A) payment type (as at 30 May 2003) FTB(A) PAYMENT TYPE NUMBER OF FAMILIES PROPORTION OF FAMILIES Family Tax Benefit Part A Maximum rate Broken rate Base rate Less than the base rate Not specifiedª TOTAL ª Customers in this group have not been allocated a payment type code.
501 802 364 044 308 534 10 707 1 311 1 186 398 42.3% 30.7% 26.0% 0.9% 0.1% 100.0% 25.

As at 28 June 2002, of those people who received both FTB(A) and/or FTB(B) in their 2000-01 lump sum payment from the ATO: i) 49,454 received FTB(A) only; ii) 36,414 received FTB(A) and FTB(B); iii) 11,446 received FTB(B) only.

Information on Centrelink lump sum claims is not broken down to this level.

26.
26.

As at 28 June 2002 out of the families who received both FTB(A) and FTB(B) in their 2000-01 lump sum payment from the ATO: i) 7,340 received the maximum rate of FTB(A); ii) 4,383 received the broken rate of FTB(A); iii) 24,691 received the base rate of FTB(A), and iv) 0 received less than the base rate of FTB(A).
Please note: as a person's rate type can change over a financial year depending on changes in their circumstances, this information is based on the customer's final rate type for the relevant year.

Information on Centrelink lump sum claims is not broken down to this level.

Please also see the response to Question No.160.8.


75 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 27. i) The table below shows the number of families by state and territory with FTB and CCB reconciliation overpayments for the 2000/2001 financial year as at 28 March 2003.

Note: The figures in both tables are based on the new reconciliation methodology.
The CCB figures in both tables are based on the existing methodology.

Table 160.

27i: Number of FTB and CCB families by state and territory with reconciliation overpayments for the 2000/01 financial year (as at 28 March 2003) STATE 2000/2001 FINANCIAL YEAR FAMILY TAX BENEFIT CHILD CARE BENEFIT ACT NSW NT QLD SA TAS VIC WA Unknown TOTAL Note: The figures in this table are based on the new reconciliation methodology.

The CCB figures are based on the existing methodology.
Value 9,890,733 214,654,054 6,398,251 121,119,805 46,969,105 14,168,238 165,649,072 61,613,099 4,407,229 644,869,586 Number 3,235 56,423 1,671 43,758 14,691 4,481 39,861 14,450 994 179,564 Number 10,683 228,659 7,564 149,313 58,954 19,637 177,726 71,232 4,690 728,458 Value 1,003,852 15,958,744 574,259 12,503,207 3,109,440 775,271 11,441,515 3,533,687 367,173 49,267,148 27. ii) The table below shows the number of families by state and territory with FTB and CCB reconciliation overpayments for the 2001/2002 financial year as at 28 March 2003.
Table 160.

27ii: Number of FTB and CCB families by state and territory with reconciliation overpayments for the 2001/02 financial year (as at 28 March 2003) STATE 2001/2002 FINANCIAL YEAR FAMILY TAX BENEFIT CHILD CARE BENEFIT ACT NSW NT QLD SA TAS VIC WA Unknown TOTAL Note: The figures in this table are based on the new reconciliation methodology.

The CCB figures are based on the existing methodology.
Value 6,997,575 151,282,374 5,138,669 89,877,830 33,855,366 9,891,203 116,150,344 46,358,585 2,248,401 461,800,347 Number 2,600 44,527 1,632 37,469 12,318 3,627 32,103 12,225 526 147,027 Number 8,078 168,112 5,858 113,150 43,689 14,343 132,054 55,136 2,520 542,940 Value 862,142 12,957,454 654,856 11,155,860 2,702,679 655,907 9,303,911 3,069,124 177,366 41,539,299 76 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.1 and 1.4 Question No: 160.
27 (Revised on 15/08/03) Topic: Family Tax Benefit and Child Care Benefit overpayments Written question on notice Senator Bishop asked: i) Please provide for the 2000-01 year and 2001-02 year (to date) the number of Families by state with FTB debts, CCB debts?

ii) Please provide for the 2000-01 year and 2001-02 year (to date) by state, the value of FTB debts, CCB debts?
Answer: i) The table below shows the number of families by state and territory with FTB and CCB reconciliation overpayments for the 2000/2001 financial year as at 27 June 2003.

This information includes amounts up to $1,000 that were waived.
Table 160.27a: Family Tax Benefit and Child Care Benefit reconciliation overpayments for the 2000/01 financial year (as at 15 August 2003) State Family Tax Benefit Child Care Benefit Number Value Number Value 2000/2001 ACT NSW NT QLD SA TAS VIC WA Unknown TOTAL Note: The FTB figures in this table are based on the new reconciliation methodology.

The CCB figures are based on the existing methodology.
$9,971,487 $216,531,970 $6,508,208 $122,036,534 $47,242,628 $14,268,603 $166,650,405 $62,100,149 $4,555,704 $649,865,688 3,269 57,243 1,691 44,252 14,762 4,507 40,137 14,574 1,019 181,454 10,757 230,125 7,694 150,058 59,243 19,735 178,528 71,608 4,829 732,577 $1,015,216 $16,176,518 $579,189 $12,646,978 $3,129,881 $775,243 $11,529,896 $3,551,099 $375,846 $49,779,866 ii) The table below shows the number of families by state and territory with FTB and CCB reconciliation overpayments for the 2001/2002 financial year as at 27 June 2003.
77 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Table 160.27b: Family Tax Benefit and Child Care Benefit reconciliation overpayments for the 2001/02 financial year (as at 15 August 2003) 2001/2002 State Family Tax Benefit Child Care Benefit Number Value Number Value ACT NSW NT QLD SA TAS VIC WA Unknown TOTAL Note: The FTB figures in this table are based on the new reconciliation methodology.
The CCB figures are based on the existing methodology.
$8,414,216 $187,273,757 $5,993,370 $110,535,691 $42,776,116 $12,099,970 $145,234,359 $57,866,467 $3,072,430 $573,266,376 2,960 51,431 1,766 42,430 14,048 4,091 37,417 13,998 638 168,779 9,326 200,325 7,122 133,135 51,706 16,760 157,013 64,970 3,167 643,524 $998,505 $15,943,998 $717,925 $13,370,621 $3,295,530 $784,648 $11,422,213 $3,709,479 $228,242 $50,471,161 78 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.1 Family Assistance Question No: 160 (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 & 22) Topic: Family Tax Benefit Hansard Page: Written question on notice Senator Bishop asked: 15 What is the net additional annual cost of indexing the lower FTB-A income threshold from $30,806 to $31,755 for 2003-2004?
16 What is the net additional annual cost of indexing the upper FTB-A income threshold from $79,643 to $82,052 for 2003-2004?

17 What is the net additional annual cost of providing an each additional child amount of $3,285 in addition to the upper FTB-A income threshold?

18 What is the net additional annual cost of increasing each of the maximum rates and base rates of FTB-A for 2003-2004?
19 If the additional cost of each of the items listed in Q 15-18 cannot be provided separately what is the detailed costing methodology that was used to determine the net budget impact of the indexation of FTB-A from 1 July 2003?

20 What is the net additional annual cost of indexing the FTB-B income free area from $1,752 to $1,825 for 2003-2004?

21 What is the net additional annual cost of indexing each of the maximum FTB-B payment rates for 2003-2004?
22 If the additional cost of each of the items listed in Q 20 & 21 cannot be provided separately what is the detailed costing methodology that was used to determine the net budget impact of the indexation of FTB-B from 1 July 2003?

Answer: Family Tax Benefit (FTB) rates and thresholds are indexed once yearly at 1 July in accordance with Schedule 4 of the A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999.

In summary the process is as follows: 1.

2.

3.

4.
2.

3.

4.

In January the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) publishes the CPI for the December Quarter for the previous year.

The FTB rates and thresholds increased are calculated by the percentage change in the CPI over the 12 months to the end of December.

These are then rounded according to the rounding base specified in Schedule 4.

New amounts apply from 1 July.


79 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 The cost of indexation is not calculated as outlined in the questions 15-22.

To cost these would be a hypothetical costing with no relevance.

The cost of indexation as included in the FTB estimate listed in the Portfolio Budget Statement is not a simple calculation of the total value of these changes.
This would only be appropriate if the only changes occurring were the indexing of the rates and thresholds.

In practice there are many factors affecting how the indexation of rates and thresholds impacts on actual expenditure, which need to be accounted for.

For example, movements in the CPI occur in tandem with other inflationary changes such as increases in family incomes.
Demographic changes also influence the cost of indexation on actual expenditure as the absolute and relative number of children in different age groupings change, and so on.

These changes all affect how the indexing of FTB rates and thresholds impacts on expenditure.
80 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.1 Family Assistance Question No: 174 Topic: Family Tax Benefit Hansard Page: CA 491 Written question on notice Senator Bishop asked: Is the quantum of repayment higher than you had put in your forward figures, your planning?

(FTB debt payment recovery).

Answer: No.


81 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.1 Family Assistance Question No: 175 Topic: Family Tax Benefit Hansard Page: CA 493 Written question on notice Senator Bishop asked: What is the reason for the $700 million difference?

Answer: See answer to written question on notice 176.
82 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.1 Family Assistance Question No: 176 Topic: Family Tax Benefit Hansard Page: CA 494 Written question on notice Senator Bishop asked: • What were the components and the figures that led to the $11.38 billion in the 2002-03 budget?

• What was the reconciliation process for each of those figures?
• Were they up or down - that is, were they accurate?

• What are the components of the 2003-04 budget and the figures allocated for each of the components?
Answer: The table below provides Family Tax Benefit estimates at the component level as follows: • 2002-03 Budget Estimates as at 2002-03 Budget (March 2002) • 2002-03 Final Estimate as at 2003-04 Budget (March 2003) • 2003-04 Budget Estimate as at 2003-04 Budget (March 2003) Throughout the 2002-03 financial year the 2002-03 Budget Estimates were adjusted to align more closely with current observations of the level of each component.
These adjustments resulted in a reduction of the expense component by $723m.

This reduction is reported as the expense difference between the 2002-03 Budget Estimate and the 2002-03 Final Estimate.

As Family Tax Benefit is paid through a Special Appropriation, a change in the Budget Estimates has no impact on customer entitlements.
Component Cash Movement in Payables Movement in Receivables (Debt) Expense 02-03 Budget Estimate $m 02-03 Final Estimate $m 03-04 Budget Estimate $m 11,386.356 (3.409) 1 (1.755) 2 11,381.192 10,935.010 (44.132) 3 (233.108) 4 10,657.770 11,245.305 35.136 5 (27.910) 6 11,252.531 1Movement between Final Estimate 2001-02 ($193.732m) and Budget Estimate 2002-03 ($190.323m).

2Movement between Final Estimate 2001-02 ($56.421m) and Budget Estimate 2002-03 ($58.176m).
3Movement between Actual 2001-02 ($208.541m) and Final Estimate 2002-03 ($164.409m).

4Movement between Actual 2001-02 ($166.555m) and Final Estimate 2002-03 ($399.663m).

5Movement between Final Estimate 2002-03 ($164.409m) and Budget Estimate 2003-04 ($199.545m) 6Movement between Final Estimate 2002-03 ($399.663m) and Budget Estimate 2003-04 ($427.573m).
83 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.1 and 1.4 Question No: 27 Topic: Family Tax Benefit and Child Care Benefit overpayments Hansard Page: CA 296 Senator Mark Bishop asked: On the figure of 1.685 million families who have been reconciled, what is the total number of FTB and CCB debts?
Answer: As noted during the hearing on 4 June, a new methodology has been adopted for calculating FTB reconciliation results.

As yet, the methodology for CCB reconciliation is unchanged.

However, FaCS is working with Centrelink to adopt the new methodology for CCB.

At the end of March 2003, the number of families whose FTB for 2001-02 has been reconciled is 1,685,523, and the number of these families with an FTB overpayment, using the new methodology, is 542,940.
At the end of March 2003, the number of families whose CCB for 2001-02 has been reconciled is 647,089, and the number of these families with a CCB overpayment, using the existing methodology for CCB reconciliation, is 147,027.
84 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.1 Question No: 25 and 26 Topic: Family Tax Benefit reconciliation Hansard Page: CA 293 and CA 294 Senator Mark Bishop asked: FTB reconciliation – I want to go first to an update on the 2001-02 family assistance reconciliation.

How many families have an FTB overpayment?


Can you go back and adjust the extant data for the last two or three years and identify those figures?

Please table that information for each quarter for the 2000-01 reconciliation process as well as the 2001-02 reconciliation process up to the latest information, which is March 2003.
Answer: Quarterly data for FTB reconciliation results using the new methodology for 2000-01 and 2001-02 is as follows: 85 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 2000-01 data at end of: Sep 01* Dec 01 Mar 02 Jun 02 Sep 02 Dec 02 Mar 03 Top-Up Number % Total Amount Average Amount Overpayment Number % Total Amount Average Amount Nil Change Number % Number Total 333,487 23% $249m $746 514,929 36% $403m $782 378,351 24% $312m $826 568,081 35% $473m $832 451,436 24% $403m $892 666,772 35% $577m $865 472,186 23% $431m $912 699,419 34% $616m $881 477,034 22% $436m $915 722,037 33% $638m $884 477,521 22% $438m $916 728,458 34% $645m $885 600,411 41% 660,298 41% 795,438 42% 857,368 42% 966,487 45% 963,923 44% 1,448,827 1,606,730 1,913,646 2,028,973 2,165,558 2,169,902 * 1st quarter data not available for 2000-01 reconciliation.
2001-02 data at end of: Sep 02 Dec 02 Mar 03 Top-Up Number % Total Amount Average Amount Overpayment Number % Total Amount Average Amount Nil Change Number % Total 226,997 25% $133m $587 266,753 30% $190m $712 390,582 25% $289m $740 492,966 32% $396m $803 434,258 26% $349m $803 542,940 32% $462m $851 398,884 45% 658,582 43% 708,325 42% Number 892,634 1,542,130 1,685,523 86 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.1 Family Assistance Question No: 28 Topic: FTB/CCB Reconciliation Hansard Page: CA 298 Senator Bishop asked: What is the total outstanding debt for FTB and CCB currently owing?
Answer: As at 28 May 2003 there was $373.6m in outstanding FTB reconciliation overpayments from 2000/2001 and 2001/2002, and $27.17m in outstanding CCB reconciliation overpayments.

Note: The above FTB overpayment information does not include the non-lodger overpayments.
87 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.1 Family Assistance Question No: 29 Topic: FTB/CCB Reconciliation Hansard Page: CA 298 Senator Bishop asked: Going back to those figures you gave me of 327,000 for the FTB and 52,000 for the CCB, how many of those are dual year debt repayers?
Answer: As at 28 May 2003, of the 327,726 customers with outstanding FTB reconciliation debts, 34,338 had two debts.

Of the 52,653 customers with outstanding CCB reconciliation debts, 1,786 had two debts.
88 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.1 Family Assistance Question No: 32 Topic: FTB/CCB Reconciliation Hansard Page: CA 348 Senator Bishop asked: How many FTB A and FTB B recipients who left their claim for FTB to their tax return at the end of the financial year received more than the minimum rate?
Answer: As at 13 June 2003, of those FTB(A) recipients who claimed FTB as part of their 2001-02 tax return, 19,591 received more than the base rate.

FTB(B) does not have a statutory base rate, however of those FTB(B) recipients who claimed FTB as part of their 2001-02 tax return, 13,045 received less than the maximum rate of FTB(B).
89 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.1 Family Assistance Question No: 33 Topic: FTB/CCB Reconciliation Hansard Page: CA 349 Senator Bishop asked: How does this compare with the number of A and B recipients paid more than the minimum rate who were paid fortnightly during the year and is there a differential in that?
Answer: As at 28 June 2002, of those FTB(A) recipients who were paid fortnightly during the 2001- 02 financial year, 1,051,906 received more than the base rate.

FTB(B) does not have a statutory base rate, however of those FTB(B) recipients who were paid fortnightly during the 2001-02 financial year, 327,966 received less than the maximum rate of FTB(B).
90 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.1 Family Assistance Question No: 34 Topic: FTB/CCB Reconciliation Hansard Page: CA 349 Senator Bishop asked: Please provide the breakdown for this in the preceding years from the 2000-2001 year onwards as well?
Answer: As at 28 June 2002, of those FTB(A) recipients who claimed FTB as part of their 2000-01 tax return, 19,116 received more than the base rate.

FTB(B) does not have a statutory base rate, however of those FTB(B) recipients who claimed FTB as part of their 2000-01 tax return, 13,530 received less than the maximum rate of FTB(B).

As at 29 June 2001, of those FTB(A) recipients who were paid fortnightly during the 2000- 01 financial year, 1,043,121 received more than the base rate.
FTB(B) does not have a statutory base rate, however of those FTB(B) recipients who were paid fortnightly during the 2000-01 financial year, 331,716 received less than the maximum rate of FTB(B).
91 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.1 Family Assistance Question No: 35 Topic: FTB/CCB Reconciliation Hansard Page: CA 349 Senator Bishop asked: How many of these claimants received the maximum rate of FTB A and FTB B and how does this compare to the number of FTB A and FTB B recipients paid the maximum rate who were paid fortnightly during the years?
Answer: As at 13 June 2002: i. of those FTB(A) recipients who claimed FTB as part of their 2001-02 tax return, 11,514 received the maximum rate; ii.

of those FTB(B) recipients who claimed FTB as part of their 2001-02 tax return, 29,649 received the maximum rate; for their particular family circumstances.

As at 28 June 2002: i. of those FTB(A) recipients who were paid fortnightly during the 2001-02 financial year, 620,354 received the maximum rate; ii.
of those FTB(B) recipients who were paid fortnightly during the 2001-02 financial year, 871,267 received the maximum rate; for their particular family circumstances.
92 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.1 Family Assistance Question No: 36 Topic: FTB/CCB Reconciliation Hansard Page: CA 349 Senator Bishop asked: Please provide the breakdown for that question in the preceding years from the 2000-2001 year onwards?
Answer: As at 28 June 2002: i. of those FTB(A) recipients who claimed FTB as part of their 2000-01 tax return, 12,342 received the maximum rate; ii.

of those FTB(B) recipients who claimed FTB as part of their 2000-01 tax return, 34,330 received the maximum rate; for their particular family circumstances.

As at 29 June 2002: i. of those FTB(A) recipients who were paid fortnightly during the 2000-01 financial year, 637,016 received the maximum rate; ii.
of those FTB(B) recipients who were paid fortnightly during the 2000-01 financial year, 849,353 received the maximum rate; for their particular family circumstances.
93 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.1 Family Assistance Question No: 30 Topic: Reason for FTB Repayment choices Hansard Page: CA302 Senator Collins asked: Are people reporting to Centrelink now their reason for opting for one of these repayment choices?

If so, can you tell us what those reasons are?


Answer: Records are not kept on the reasons why customers choose which repayment choice as there is no legislative basis to require customers to do so.
94 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.1 Family Assistance Question No: 31 Topic: Reason for FTB Repayment choices Hansard Page: CA348 Senator Bishop asked: (a) What is the take-up rate for people paid by Centrelink for FTB A and FTB B (b) the take-up rate for those who choose to take either payment or the joint payment through the Taxation Office for each of the past three years?
Answer: Eligibility for FTB is determined when the claim is submitted.

We are in the process of undertaking analysis of the take up rate of FTB, whether they use Centrelink and/or tax payment options, but the results are not yet available because of data restrictions.

We would note the large number of families receiving FTB A and FTB B.
95 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.1 Families are strong Question No: 37 Topic: Fertility Hansard Page: CA35 Written question on notice Senator Bishop asked: Please provide a copy of the ANU commissioned work on ‘pathways to childlessness’.
Answer: The “pathways to childlessness” (known as the “Dimensions in childlessness”) project was undertaken by Rosangela Merlo as part of her PhD in the Demography Program at the ANU Research School of Social Sciences.

Ms Merlo made a confidential presentation of her survey findings to FaCS in May 2002.

The findings are not yet available for public release.

The presentation fulfilled the contract with FaCS.


96 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.1 Question No: 38 Topic: Child Abuse Prevention Appropriation Hansard Page: CA#356 Senator Bishop asked: Please provide (a) a breakdown of the name of each project, (b) the funds that have been allocated (c) where the money is going to be spent.
Answer: As at June 2003, projects that are expected to receive funding (new or continuing) under the Child Abuse Prevention Appropriation in 2003-04 include the following: (i) Early Intervention Parenting Short Name/Trading Name State/Territory Project Expected Ending Date Expected Funding (over lifetime of contract/agreement, including GST) Byron Shire Council NSW CARE Parent Support Project 30 June 2004 Child Abuse Prevention Service NSW Awareness/Intervention/Stronger Families - CAPS 30 June 2004 Coffs Harbour Aboriginal Family Community Care Centre Inc NSW Parents as Partners 30 June 2004 Deniliquin Council for Social Development Family Support Program NSW Deniliquin Family Support - Series of Parenting Programs 30 June 2004 Fairfield City Council Good Beginnings Inner Western Sydney KU Children's Services Lower Mountains Family Support Service NAPCAN Australia Shoalhaven Division of General Practice Inc NSW NSW NSW NSW NSW NSW The Caravan Park Parenting Project 30 June 2004 Good Beginnings Volunteer Home Visiting and Parenting Program 30 June 2004 KU Family Programs 30 June 2004 Family Links Project 30 June 2004 Family and Community Workshops based on Traditional Aboriginal Culture Young Parents Early Intervention Parenting Project August 2003 30 June 2004 Tresillian Family Care Centres NSW Pilot Home Visiting Intervention Programme (PHVIP) 30 June 2004 UnitingCare Burnside - Macarthur Family Services NSW Engaging and Strengthening Parents with Mental Health Problems 30 June 2004 97 $214,500 $254,375
 $297,000 $101,750 $235,125 $338,666 $271,334 $129,295 $220,000 $76,313 $297,000 $152,625 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 YWCA NT Anglicare Central Queensland Ltd QLD YWCA Palmerston Parenting Support Service Specialised Early Intervention Parenting Program 30 June 2004 November 2003 Northern Peninsula Area Women's Shelter ATSI Corporation QLD Northern Peninsula Area Intensive
 Family Support 30 June 2004 Playgroup Association of Queensland Inc QLD Save the Children Fund - Queensland Division QLD Sing and Grow 30 June 2004 Mobile Playscheme 30 June 2004 Sisters Inside Inc QLD Project PEEK (Programs to Enable and Empower Kids) 30 June 2004 $254,375 $231,000 $288,750 $303,816 $152,625 $305,248 Anglican Community Care Inc SA Flying Start 30 June 2004 $209,000 Port Adelaide Central Mission Inc SA Support and Strength in Families [Takikurtinna Wiltarnendi] 30 June 2004 University of South Australia (School of Psychology) - Whyalla Campus SA Rural and Remote Parenting Support to Preschool and Primary School Age Children 30 June 2004 Anglicare Devonport Lady Gowrie Tasmania Abercare Family Services TAS TAS VIC Parenting Support Project (Good Beginnings) Lady Gowrie Early Intervention Program Home-Start Western 30 June 2004 30 June 2004 30 June 2004 Australians Against Child Abuse VIC Every Child Is Important: A community based parenting program 31 July 2003 Goulburn Valley Family Care Inc VIC Parent Child Day Stay Program 30 June 2004 Migrant Resource Centre North East Inc VIC Parenting in a New Culture - An Orientation Program 30 June 2004 Early Intervention Parenting Projects 30 June 2004 Parenting Plus 30 June 2004 $231,990 $186,881 $271,334 $75,925 $305,250 $279,400 $254,375 $245,896 $321,750 $303,875] Parenting Australia The Queen Elizabeth Centre Agencies for South West Accommodation Inc VIC VIC WA Uniting Church in Australia Property
 Trust (WA) WA Victoria Park Youth Accommodation Inc WA 30 June 2004 $288,291 30 June 2004 $305,250 30 June 2004 $203,500 Delivery of parenting packages targeting 'at risk' young parents that support and strengthen parenting roles and reduce the likelihood of future crisis.
Skills based programs are individually tailored.

Involves collaboration with the social work area of local university (Edith Cowan University).

Mofflyn Early Intervention Program - Early intervention parent support service, interpreting certain aspects of NEWPIN programs.

(NEWPIN is a self-help, early intervention child protection program that works with families under stress to break the cycle of destructive family behaviour.)
Building blocks for stronger families 98 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Good Beginnings Hobart TAS Good Beginnings Volunteer Home Visiting and parenting program 30 June 2004 Good Beginnings Katherine NT Good Beginnings Volunteer Home Visiting and Parenting Program 30 June 2004 NAPCAN Australia National Child Protection Week Campaigns 30 June 2004 (ii) Good Beginnings Prototypes Short Name/Trading Name State/Territory Project Expected Ending Date Belconnen Community Service Inc ACT Good Beginnings Prototype Project 30 June 2004 George Street Neighbourhood Centre Association Inc QLD Good Beginnings Prototype Project Home Based Support Program 30 June 2004 Nambour Community Centre QLD Good Beginnings Prototype - Project Home Based Support Program 30 June 2004 Alexandrina Council SA Southern Fleurieu Volunteer Home Visiting Program Good Beginnings Prototype 30 June 2004 (iii) Child Abuse Prevention Projects Short Name/Trading Name State/Territory Project Expected Ending Date $382,789 $340,829 $440,000 Expected Funding (over lifetime of contract/agreement, including GST) $132,856 $135,625 $128,059 $50,001 Expected Funding (over lifetime of contract/agreement, including GST) Good Beginnings Australia Ltd TAS Good Beginnings Tasmanian Fathering Program 15 April 2005 $41,406 NAPCAN Australia NSW Australian Institute of Family Studies VIC Australian Association for Infant Mental Health
 Australian Association for Infant Mental Health Australian Research Alliance for Children & Youth 15th International Congress on Child Abuse and Neglect, Brisbane 18-22 September, 2004 National Child Protection Clearinghouse Frozen Futures Conference - November 2002 Contribution to the running costs of National Conference - Adelaide, 24-27 July 2003 Establishment of network of researchers; development of a nationally agreed research agenda; establishment of formal linkages.
31 July 2004 $110,000 8 December 2003 $881,433 $11,000 $11,000 30 June 2004 $222,000 COTA National Seniors Partnership Ltd Support for Grandparents Raising Grandchildren August 2003 $165,000 99 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.1 Families are Strong Question No: 40 Topic: Australian Council for Children and Parenting Hansard Page: CA359/Written question on notice Senator Collins asked: Australian Council for Children and Parenting Board – (a) Please provide a list of those persons and their particular areas of expertise that warranted their appointment to the board.
(b) terms of their appointment.

Is it one year or three years?

Answer: (a) • The Chair of the Council is Professor Alan Hayes.

Professor Hayes is the Dean and Head of Division for the Australian Centre for Educational Studies at Macquarie University.
• Continuing members of the Council are: - Ms Muriel Cadd, Chief Executive Officer of the Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency; - Dr Bronwyn Gould AO, Medical practitioner working with children, parents and young people; - Mr Sandy MacKenzie, Consultant in strategic planning, business development and corporate relations, including work on ‘at risk’ youth; - Professor Graham Vimpani, Director of Community Child and Adolescent and Family Health Service, Hunter Area Health Service, and Professor and Head of Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Newcastle.
• Newly appointed members of the Council are: - Ms Jo Comans, Executive Director of the National Family Day Care Council of Australia; - Ms Divonne Holmes a Court, Founder of Smart Population and Board Member of Good Beginnings Australia; - Dr Anne Graham, Senior Lecturer at the School of Education, Southern Cross University; - Ms Kelly Trewin, Manager of the Consulting Service at CREATE Foundation; - Mr Joe Tucci, Chief Executive Officer of Australians Against Child Abuse; and, - Mr Simon Schrapel Executive Manager of Family and Community Development at Anglicare SA.
• The Commonwealth appointed representative is Mr David Hazlehurst, Assistant Secretary, Family and Children’s Policy Branch, Department of Family and Community Services.

• The Council also includes three representatives appointed by the Community Services Ministers’ Advisory Council.

They are Ms Jan Brazier (WA), Ms Vicki Rundle (Tasmania) and Ms Pam White (Victoria).

A short biographical summary on each member providing further details of members’ expertise is attached.
(b) The term of appointment of Council members is two years from the date of the first meeting for this term.
100 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Australian Council for Children and Parenting Community Members - Biographical Data Professor Alan Hayes (NSW) Prof Alan Hayes is Professor of Early Childhood Studies and Dean and Head of the Australian Centre for Educational Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney.
His qualifications include a Bachelor of Arts and a PhD in Psychology and his publications, films, and video productions are in the area of applied developmental psychology, with a particular focus on social contexts of development and issues related to risk, resilience, and individual differences.
His writings highlight the importance of early intervention, family and community focused promotion and prevention efforts and the need to resist short-term, single “program” approaches to complex multiply determined social and developmental problems.

Ms Muriel Cadd (VIC) Ms Muriel Cadd is currently the CEO of the Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency.

Ms Cadd is active on many boards concerning children, families and the Indigenous population.
Her recent activities include Chairperson of the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care and member of the Australian Council of Social Service.

Ms Cadd is also an active member of a number of Indigenous and community organisations, including the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service, the ATSIC Indigenous Peoples Organisations Forum, and the Children’s Welfare Association of Victoria.
Ms Jo Comans (NSW) Ms Jo Comans has held a range of executive positions in both state and national professional associations and is presently the Executive director of the National Family Day Care Council of Australia (NFDCCA), the national peak body for the Family Day Care program.

Ms Comans has over 20 years experience in the child care industry with a particular focus in Family Day Care, including managing large Family Day Care schemes in both NSW and the ACT.
Dr Anne Graham (NSW) Since 1993, Dr Anne Graham has been a Lecturer at the School of Education at Southern Cross University, currently holding the position of Senior Lecturer.

Dr Graham has over 20 years experience as a teacher and educator in university, school and community settings.

She has received a number of awards for her teaching excellence.

Dr Bronwyn Gould AM (NSW) Dr Bronwyn Gould has post graduate qualifications in both paediatrics and psychological medicine.
Her research area concerned factors associated with resilience following adversity in childhood.

Dr Gould has experience spanning over 20 years in general practice specialising in work with children, parents and young people.

A major focus of her work is vulnerable young people.

More recently, she has established and provides an on site medical service for homeless women and women with children at Lou's Place, Darlinghurst.
She is also actively involved working with children and young women in a voluntary capacity through Guides Australia.
Dr Bronwyn Gould is a current member of the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN), the American Professional 101 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Society on the Abuse of Children (ASPAC) and the Association of Children’s Welfare Agencies (ACWA).

Dr Gould is a continuing member of the Council.


Divonne Holmes a Court (NSW) Ms Divonne Holmes a Court is the founder of Smart Population, a non-profit venture aimed at raising broad-based education and participation levels for the existing and future population by focusing on improving the relationship between children and parents/carers.

Ms Holmes a Court was educated at the Columbia University in New York, and the Boston University School of Law.
Mr Sandy MacKenzie (NSW) Mr Mackenzie was Federal Member for Calare 1975-1983.

Since 1983 Mr Mackenzie has acted as a consultant in fundraising, strategic planning, business development and corporate relations.

Mr MacKenezie has been involved in working with the Population and Community Development Association of Thailand to develop on-the-job training programs with local businesses for ‘at risk’ youth, especially daughters of poverty stricken small farmers.
As a consultant to the Macfarlane Burnet Centre for Medical Research, Mr MacKenzie developed a harm reduction model for dislocated youth, especially those affected by substance dependency, homelessness, abuse and minority isolation.

Mr Mackenzie is a continuing member of the Council.
Mr Simon Schrapel (SA) From May 1999, Mr Schrapel has held the position of Executive Manager, Family and Community Development, at Anglicare SA, where he is responsible for a broad range of services from Child Care to Alternative Care, Supported Accommodation, Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation, Refugee programs, Emergency Relief, Community Development, Community Legal Services, Relationship Education and Family Support amongst other areas.
Mr Schrapel originally trained in Social Work in Adelaide and has worked for several years in a variety of social work and community development positions in both the U.K, and Sri Lanka before returning to Australia in 1989.

Mr Schrapel has been the Chairperson of the SA Council of Social Service since July 2002.

He is also the current Chair of the Child and Family Welfare Association of Australia.
Ms Kelly Trewin (QLD) Ms Kelly Trewin is currently the Manager of the Consulting Service at CREATE Foundation which is an organisation committed to promoting the safety and well being of children and young people in care.

She commenced this role in 1998 and is responsible for planning and development of the consulting service; research and policy development; project management; training development and delivery and the support and development of young people and centre staff.
Ms Trewin started her career as a Youth Worker.

She has worked predominantly with children and young people within state care systems of Australia to ensure the rights of these young people are enshrined within legislation, policy and practice.

Mr Joe Tucci (VIC) Joe Tucci is the CEO of independent children's charity, Australians Against Child Abuse.

He is a qualified social worker and registered psychologist.
He is a Clinical Member of the 102 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Victorian Association of Family Therapists (VAFT) and a member of the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW).
His experience includes statutory child protection work, family counseling at the North Melbourne Community Health Centre, child abuse research with the Child Abuse and Family Violence Research Unit at Monash University and a period of work with the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) in England.

He is also completing his PhD researching emotional child abuse at Monash University.

He has lectured on child abuse and family therapy at Monash and Deakin Universities.
Joe has been the CEO of Australians Against Child Abuse since 1996.

Professor Graham Vimpani (NSW) Prof. Vimpani is currently the Director of the Community Child Adolescent and Family Health Service, Hunter Area Health Service.

He is also Professor and Head of the Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Newcastle.

He is the medical director of the child protection team of the John Hunter Children's Hospital in Newcastle.
Prof. Vimpani has a professional experience of almost 30 years in paediatrics and child health in universities, hospitals and community settings.

Prof Vimpani has held various professional memberships both in Australia and overseas, including the Division of Paediatrics of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians/Australian College of Paediatrics from 1978, and the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN), APSAC.
Prof. Vimpani is the founding member of the National Investment for the Early Years (NIFTeY Australia) and is a continuing member of the Council.
103 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.1 Question No: 159 Topic: Services for Families with Children Hansard Page: Written question on notice Senator Bishop asked: Please provide details of the proposed expenditure under both Appropriation Bills for this measure – (a) what the projects/programs are, (b) the agency conducting them, (c) the amount being spent, and (d) proposed finishing dates for each.
Answer: As at June 2003, projects that are expected to receive funding (new or continuing) under the Services for Families with Children Appropriation and the Services for Families with Children SPP Appropriation in 2003-04 include the following: Services for Families with Children Appropriation (i) Aboriginal and Islander Child Care Agencies Short Name/Trading Name State/Territory Project Expected Ending Date Expected Funding (over lifetime of contract/agreement, including GST) Aboriginal Children's Service Ltd NSW Coffs Harbour Aboriginal Family Community Care Centre Inc NSW Aboriginal and Islander Child Care Agency - Redfern Aboriginal Family & Children's Services - Coffs Harbour 30 June 2004 30 June 2004 Aboriginal and Islander Development and Recreational Women's Association QLD Aboriginal and Islander Child Care Agency - Mt Isa December 2003 Bargumar Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Corporation QLD Aboriginal and Islander Child Care Agency - Caboolture 30 June 2004 Central Queensland Aboriginal & Islanders Child Care Agency Inc QLD Aboriginal & Islander Child Care Agency - Rockhampton 30 June 2004 Kalwun Development Corporation Ltd QLD TAIHS Childcare Agency Townsville QLD Aboriginal and Islander Child Care Agency - Gold Coast Aboriginal and Islander Child Care Agency - Townsville 30 June 2004 30 June 2004 The Aboriginal & Islander Community Health Service Brisbane Ltd QLD Aboriginal and Islander Child Care Agency - Brisbane 30 June 2004 WE CARE Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Service for Aged
 and Disabled Association Inc QLD Aboriginal and Islander Child Care Agency - Ipswich 30 June 2004 $124,475 $133,453 $88,938 $67,935 $179,640 $46,530 $518,312 $177,692 $156,523 Aboriginal Family Support Services Inc SA Aboriginal and Islander Child Care Agency - Adelaide 31 December 2003 $582,137 104 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency Co-op
 Ltd Yorganop Childcare Aboriginal Corporation VIC WA Aboriginal and Islander Child Care Agency - Victoria Aboriginal and Islander Child Care Agency - Yorganop 31 December 2005 $836,356 (ii) Playgroups Program Short Name/Trading Name State/Territory Project Expected Ending Date ACT Playgroups Association Inc ACT Playgroup Associations 24 September 2004 Playgroup Association of NSW Inc NSW Playgroup Associations 30 June 2004 Playgroup Association of the Northern Territory Inc NT Playgroup Associations 30 June 2004 Playgroup Association of QLD Inc QLD Playgroup Associations June 2004 Save the Children Fund - Queensland Division QLD Intensive Playgroups Project 30 June 2005 Expected Funding (over lifetime of contract/agreement, including GST) $158,783 $1,687,904 $200,162 $1,130,504 $341,000 Playgroup Association of SA Inc SA Playgroup Associations 1 November 2004 $480,952 Playgroup Association of Tasmania TAS Playgroup Associations 30 June 2004 $210,972 Playgrouping Victoria VIC Playgroup Associations 30 June 2004 $1,176,111 Playgroups Council of Australia Inc VIC The Inclusion of Rural and Remote Families in Quality Playgroups Projects 31 October 2003 $373,573 Playgroup Association of WA Inc WA Playgroup Associations 30 June 2004 $605,000 (iii) Services for Families with Children Projects Short Name/Trading Name State/Territory Project Expected Ending Date Expected Funding (over lifetime of contract/agreement, including GST) Byron Bay Community Association NSW Hope
 for the Children Foundation Inc NSW Rainbow Food Project - Improve Awareness of Good Nutrition and Healthy Lifestyles Contribution to Sydney City Network for provision of Home Visitation Service to referred families November 2003 $82,500 30 April 2004 $55,000 The Devonport Playhouse Inc TAS Oz Child VIC Contribution to the running costs of The Devonport Playhouse Inc 30 June 2004 Parents Charter: Lifestyle and Nutrition Program 30 April 2004 $26,500 $137,500 105 Senate Community Affairs Legislation
 Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 (iv) Other Services for Families with Children Short Name/Trading Name State/Territory Project Expected Funding (per annum, including GST) Barnardos Australia Canberra ACT Kids Friends Programme $20,790 per annum D4 Darlinghurst Ltd NSW D4 - Darlinghurst OSHC Vacation Emergency Weekend Holiday Care $133,896 per annum Dubbo Community Services & Information Centre Inc NSW Dubbo Community Services & Information Centre $4,132 per annum Katoomba Neighbourhood Centre Ltd NSW Katoomba Neighbourhood Centre Bus Operational Costs $8,899 per annum Kemblawarra Child & Family Centre Inc NSW Kemblawarra Centre Director/Social Worker $40,717 per annum Mercy Family Centre Ltd NSW Mercy Family Children's Services Coordinator $29,652 per annum Outreach Support - Kids Activity Centre Ltd NSW Outreach Support, Kids Activity Centre - Mount Druitt $75,862 per annum Randwick Information & Community Centre Inc NSW Randwick Information & Community Centre $3,835 per annum Singleton Neighbourhood Centre Inc NSW Singleton Community Aid & Resource Centre $2,764 per annum Sisters of Mercy NSW Salary of Executive Director $37,063 per annum St Saviour's Neighbourhood Centre NSW St Saviour's Neighbourhood Centre Goulburn - Director of Services $36,974 per annum Technical Aid to the Disabled Ltd NSW Technical Aid to the Disabled, Ryde $99,317 per annum Waltja
 Tjutangku Palyapayi Inc NT Waltja Tjutangky Palayapayi Citizen Advice Bureau Ipswich Inc QLD Citizens Advice Bureau, Ipswich $55,000 per annum $10,452 per annum Community Support Centre Innisfail Inc QLD Open Youth Program Save the Children Fund - Queensland Division QLD QLD Community Information and Advice Centre, Innisfail $2,008 per annum Open Youth Program, Townsville $136,855 per annum Caravan Park Mobile Playgroup, Brisbane $53,651 per annum Anglicare Victoria VIC North West Foster Care Brunswick
 Neighbourhood House VIC Brunswick Neighbourhood House $70,601 per annum $50,577 per annum Families in Distress Foundation VIC Families in Distress Foundation $42,367 per annum Melton Neighbourhood Centre VIC Melton Neighbourhood Centre $56,068 per annum Newport Outlets Co-op VIC Outlets Co-operative Ltd $36,617 per annum 106 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 The Poor Sisters of Nazareth VIC Larmenier Child & Family Centre $110,655 per annum UnitingCare Connections Balga Presbyterian Church Christian Community Inc City of Fremantle Communicare Inc VIC WA WA WA WA Wheelers Hill Family Centre Balga Detached Youth Work Project Family Life Project Meeting Place - Welfare Workers Communicare Drop in Centre $41,674 per annum $22,742 per annum $23,401 per annum $64,265 per annum $5,443 per annum Wanslea Family Support Services Inc WA Wanslea Family Support Services $225,599 per annum Services for Families with Children SPP Appropriation (i) Other Services for Families with Children Short Name/Trading Name State/Territory Project Expected Funding (per annum, including GST) Department of Community Services [NSW] Department of Community Services [NSW] Department of Community Services [NSW] Department of Community Services [NSW] Department for Community Development [WA] NSW Blacktown Family Crisis Service $77,542 per annum NSW CAPS - 24 Hour
 Parenting Help Line $121,615 per annum NSW The Grace Child Care Centre Inc/Waverly Occasional Care $13,728 per annum NSW Wiley Park Special Pre-School Association/Jannawi Family Centre $150,525 per annum WA Kwinana Family Activity Group $31,494 per annum 107 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.1 .....
Question No: 167 Topic: Family Relationships Services Program - Men and Family Relationships/Family Relationships Education Hansard Page: CA#337 Senator Moore asked: Please provide an update of funding for 2003-04 by service and by State/Territory for: (a) Men and Family Relationships Services (b) Family Relationships Education Answer: The expected program payments for Men and Family Relationships Services and Family Relationships Education for 2003-04, under the Family Relationships Services Program, are outlined below.
Men And Family Relationships Services Organisation - Trading Name Marymead Child and Family Centre Burnside Centacare (Wilcannia - Forbes) Centacare Bathurst Centacare Broken Bay Centacare Sydney Community Connections North Coast Inc Interrelate Manning Support Services Inc Newcastle Family Support Services Inc Relationships Australia (NSW) The Family Centre Community Projects Inc Unifam - Counselling & Mediation Relationships Australia (NT) Lifeline Bundaberg Lifeline Darling Downs & Sth West Queensland Ltd Lifeline Sunshine Coast Men's information & Support Association Inc Mercy Family Services Qld Relationships Australia (QLD) Inc Youth & Family Services (Logan City) Inc Expected 2003-2004 Funding with GST $42,990 $343,706 $171,491 $95,181 $187,536 $74,997 $53,684 $173,054 $58,098 $103,650 $21,235 $69,193 $147,268 $12,569 $85,847 $161,052 $190,877 $146,491 $87,684 $100,357 $64,421 State/Territory ACT NSW NSW NSW NSW NSW NSW NSW NSW NSW NSW NSW NSW NT QLD QLD QLD QLD QLD QLD QLD 108 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Anglicare SA Inc Centacare Adelaide Centacare Catholic Diocese of Port Pirie Port Adelaide Central Mission Inc Port Pirie Central Mission Inc Anglicare Tasmania Inc Relationships Australia (TAS) Australian Greek Welfare Society Ltd Bethany Family Support Inc Child and Family Services Ballarat Inc Children's Protection Society Inc Goulburn Valley Family Care Inc
 LifeWorks Relationship & Education Services Mallee Family Care Inc Migrant Resource Centre Nth East Inc Noble Park Family Mediation Ctr Relationships Australia (VIC) Southern Family Life Service Association Inc Agencies for South West Accommodation (ASWA) Anglicare WA Centrecare Inc Men's Outreach Service Ngala Family Resource Centre GRAND TOTAL Family Relationships Education SA SA SA SA SA TAS TAS VIC VIC VIC VIC VIC VIC VIC VIC VIC VIC VIC WA WA WA WA WA Organisation - Trading Name Anglican Counselling
 Service - Diocese of Armidale Centacare Archdiocese of Canberra & Goulburn Relationships Australia, Canberra & Region Inc Anglicare NSW Centacare Bathurst Centacare Broken Bay Centacare Parramatta Centacare Sydney Centacare Wagga Wagga Centacare Wollongong Interrelate Relationships Australia (NSW) The Family Centre Community Projects Inc Unifam - Counselling & Mediation State/Territory ACT ACT ACT NSW NSW NSW NSW NSW NSW NSW NSW NSW NSW NSW 109 $63,851 $139,579 $151,508 $48,674 $62,927 $50,395 $95,617 $76,123 $158,692 $150,912 $113,333 $85,735 $274,385 $144,947 $129,841 $111,560 $81,978 $114,526 $76,456 $214,736 $129,981 $145,840 $96,860 $5,109,836 Expected 2003-2004 Funding with GST $94,144 $32,653 $19,772 $64,907 $57,363 $56,829 $56,376 $159,731 $96,773 $136,451 $131,084 $263,147 $65,010 $73,849 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Relationships Australia (NT) Centacare Brisbane Centacare Cairns Centacare Central Queensland, Rockhampton Centacare Toowoomba Centacare Townsville Kinections Relationships Australia (QLD) Anglicare SA Inc Centacare Adelaide Lutheran Community Care Relationships Australia (SA) Inc Whyalla Counselling Service Inc Anglicare Tasmania Inc Centacare Family Services Relationships Australia, Tasmania Bethany Family Support Inc Centacare Ballarat Inc Centacare Diocese of Sandhurst Centacare Melbourne Family
 Relationships Institute Inc LifeWorks Relationship & Education Services Marriage Education Programme Inc Relationships Australia (Vic) Stepfamily Association of Victoria Inc Upper Hume Community Health Service Inc Anglicare WA Catholic Marriage Education Services Relationships Australia (WA) NT QLD QLD QLD QLD QLD QLD QLD SA SA SA SA SA TAS TAS TAS VIC VIC VIC VIC VIC VIC VIC VIC VIC VIC WA WA WA $32,793 $209,381 $19,168 $40,038 $38,820 $19,697 $268,327 $81,260 $63,740 $141,877 $39,015 $86,340 $38,541 $26,516
 $83,304 $53,895 $98,627 $135,243 $62,545 $37,576 $187,930 $126,385 $26,088 $205,425 $37,813 $65,651 $95,582 $66,488 $196,450 $3,892,606 110 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.1 Question No: 168 Topic: Indigenous Parenting and Family Wellbeing Hansard Page: CA#360 Senator Bishop asked: Why has the program funding been reduced from almost $2.1 million in 2002-03 to $1.86 million in 2003-04?
Answer: The 2002-03 funding figure for the Indigenous Parenting and Family Wellbeing program included funding carried over from an earlier financial year.

As stated in the response to Question No.

170 (from Senator Moore), the Indigenous Parenting and Family Wellbeing program was transferred from the Department of Health and Aged Care (DH&AC) to the Department of Family and Community Services (FaCS) in 2000-01.

In 2000-01, $500 000 was carried forward into 2001-02 and 2002-03 ($250 000 each year).
The carry-over was due to a delay in finalising administrative arrangements between DH&AC and FaCS and a delay in transferring the funds to FaCS, which prevented expenditure taking place.
111 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.1 Question No: 169 Topic: Indigenous Parenting and Family Wellbeing Hansard Page: CA#360/361 Senator Bishop asked: Can you provide us with the allocation of program funding in the current budget year: (a) projects completed in the last year (including funding) (b) projects not yet completed (including funding, expected completion dates) Answer: As at June 2003, projects that received funding under the Indigenous Parenting and Family Wellbeing initiative in 2002-03 include the following: (a) Projects expected to be completed in 2002-03 Short Name/Trading Name State/Territory Project Expected Ending Date NAPCAN Australia NSW Learning and Respect - Art Exhibition 31 October 2002 Mission Australia QLD Border Rivers Families Project 20 June 2003 Expected Funding (over lifetime of contract/agreement) ($ including GST) $33,680 $224,026 Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Council (SA) Inc SA Family Harm Minimisation 31 December 2002 $142,500 Murray Valley Aboriginal Co-operative Ltd VIC Kids Health Program 18 June 2003 $197,000 Northern District Community Health Service Inc VIC Indigenous Parenting & Family Wellbeing Program 23 June 2003 City of Armadale City of Wanneroo Yorganop Childcare Aboriginal Corporation WA WA WA Armadale Aboriginal Family Support Project 30 June 2003 Aboriginal Playgroup in Banksia Grove Service 31 December 2002 30
 June 2003 Will address an identified gap in existing resources suitable for Aboriginal families/foster carers/services through the development of culturally appropriate resources.
$82,000 $264,000 $18,500 $100,000 (b) Projects that are expected to continue in 2003-04 112 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Short Name/Trading Name State/Territory Project Expected Ending Date Expected Funding (over lifetime of contract/agreement) ($ including GST) Billabong Aboriginal Corporation ACT Our Families Our Communities Unified Service (OFOCUS) Project September 2004 $245,652 Gulargambone Community Development Employment Program Aboriginal Corporation NSW Interrelate/Yarrawarra NSW Aboriginal Family Support - an Aboriginal family support worker 14 November 2004 $165,000 Aboriginal Family Wellbeing Facilitation Service - Training of Aboriginal people as mediators 18 November 2004 $384,560 Newcastle Family Support Services Inc NSW Koti bula umullan - Family support worker 31 October 2004 $314,368 Tharawal Aboriginal Corporation NSW 22 January 2005 $471,900 Aboriginal Outreach and Home Visiting Service - 1) Community Development Worker and 2) Development of a flexible and sustainable transport system for young mothers in the Campbelltown area.
Yoorana Gunya Family Violence Healing Centre NSW Indigenous Parenting and Family Liaison - Three family support workers - Part 2 April 2004 CAAPS Galiwin'ku Community Inc NT NT Parenting is Caring for Kids 31 March 2005 Yalu (Nurturing Centre) 17 June 2004 Kummara Association Inc QLD Strengthening Indigenous Families Project 19 March 2006 Magani Malu Kes Townsville Ltd QLD Helping Our Kids June 2005 Murri and Torres Strait Islander Network Inc QLD Young Aboriginal Boys and Girls at Risk - Cultural Reclamation Program 31 March 2005 Circular Head Aboriginal Corporation TAS Indigenous Parenting and Family Wellbeing 30 June 2004 SETAC TAS Indigenous Parenting 30 June 2004 Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre TAS Indigenous Parenting and Family Wellbeing 30 June 2004 Mildura Aboriginal Corporation Quantum Support Services VIC VIC Rumbalara Aboriginal Corporation VIC Parenting Support Group January 2005 Wanjana Lidj Parenting Program 16 May 2005 Burri Family Preservation Parenting Program and Day Stay for Young Mothers 30 June 2006 113 $379,500 $278,002 $220,000 $495,124 $450,113 $283,163 $75,350 $42,350 $99,000 $44,550 $53,700 $175,900 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 City of Wanneroo WA Nyoongah Aboriginal Community Playgroup 30 June 2006 Ngangganawili Aboriginal Community Controlled Health & Medical Service Aboriginal Corporation WA Wiluna Parenting and Early Childhood Development Wellbeing
 30 June 2006 $40,425 $309,628 Pilbara TAFE WA 30 June 2004 $143,000 Will focus on an ‘empowerment and strengths’ approach in engaging parents in active positive roles within their families/the community.
Will also examine causal factors of inappropriate parenting and test options for models of emotional healing.

114 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.1 Question No: 170 Topic: Indigenous Parenting and Family Wellbeing Hansard Page: CA#361 Senator Moore asked: When was the initiative transferred from Health?
Answer: Responsibility for administration of the funds was transferred from the Department of Health and Aged Care to the Department of Family and Community Services during 2000- 01.
115 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.1 Question No: 42 Topic: Stronger Families and Communities Strategy Hansard Page: CA364 Senator Collins asked: Stronger Families and Communities Strategy –When were these projects advised of their successful funding application?
Answer: Eleven projects funded as part of the Early Childhood Initiative were announced in the Prime Minister’s media release of 16 May 2003.

The Department subsequently contacted all auspice organisations to commence funding agreement negotiations.
116 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.1 Question No: 43 Topic: Stronger Families and Communities Strategy Hansard Page: CA365 Senator Bishop asked: Please provide the criteria by which they were approved?
Answer: Prior to the creation of the Early Childhood Initiative, these projects were developed and assessed in line with the guidelines and selection criteria applying to the various Strategy Initiatives.

With establishment of the Early Childhood Initiative, these projects were identified as being ones that related to early intervention for children aged 0 – 5 years and suitable for approval in accordance with the established criteria.
Projects seeking funding under the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy are considered against: the overall Strategy aims and those of the relevant funding initiatives the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy principles - - - core funding criteria that apply for all projects - funding criteria for the specific funding initiatives under which projects would be funded - Funding Priorities PRINCIPLES The Strategy is supported by eight principles that projects need to reflect: • Working together in partnerships • Encouraging a preventative and early intervention approach • Supporting people through life transitions • Developing better integrated and coordinated services • Developing local solutions to local problems • Building community capacity • Using evidence and looking to the future • Making the investment count 117 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 CORE FUNDING CRITERIA Applications to the community-based initiatives are are considered against the following criteria: • community support for the project including evidence that: - the community has identified a need for the project - families and communities targeted by the project have had a say in project design and activities - opportunities exist for communities and families to be involved in the project implementation and evaluation of outcomes • demonstration of the benefit to families or the community in both the short-term and • • • long-term the project’s contribution to building the community’s capacity to address issues in the longer term the extent to which the project complements, rather than competes with, other projects and activities in the community while addressing an unmet need the degree to which the project reflects the Department of Family and Community Services’ targeting plans CRITERIA SPECIFIC TO INITIATIVES In addition to the core criteria, there are additional criteria specific to each of the community-based initiatives.
The 11 projects selected for the new Early Childhood Initiative were originally considered for funding under the Stronger Families Fund, Early Intervention, Parenting and Relationship Support Initiative or Local Solutions to Local Problems initiative criteria.
The Stronger Families Fund As well as meeting the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy’s core funding criteria, Stronger Families Fund projects must: • • identify and address major issues affecting family wellbeing; recognise the value of prevention, early intervention and the development of skills and resources that allow families to become stronger and more resilient; • be primarily aimed at families with young children (preferably between 0-5 years); • help families in times of life transitions, eg, having a baby, getting a job; • coordinate and create links between local services; and • have the capacity to participate in action research.
118 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Early Intervention Parenting and Family Relationship Support As well as meeting the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy’s core funding criteria Early Intervention Parenting and Family Relationship Support projects must satisfy criteria for the appropriate element below.
Enhancing Parenting Skills - projects aimed at enhancing parenting skills must show: • an early intervention or prevention focus to help develop good parenting skills; • a willingness to participate in action research; and • coordination and creation of linkages between local services.
Playgroups – playgroup related projects must show: • that a contribution is being made to the development of better links between families and local parenting and family support services; and • evidence of appropriate skills and abilities to establish and support a playgroup.

Relationship Education – projects aimed at enhancing relationship education must show: the potential to contribute to a national development across this field.
This includes knowledge about effectiveness of programs – what works for whom and why.

• Local Solutions to Local Problems As well as meeting the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy’s core funding criteria, Local Solutions to Local Problems projects must show: they make better use of existing infrastructure than is currently the case; and • • community involvement and the development of partnerships between communities, business and government.
FUNDING PRIORITIES These priorities include: Early Intervention and Prevention focussing on: - Family relationships - Early Childhood - Crime and violence Welfare Reform focussing on: - Job creation - Training opportunities - Volunteering - Social participation 119 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.1 Question No: 45 Topic: Stronger Families and Communities Strategy Hansard Page: CA365 Senator Bishop asked: Please provide the allocations for the 2003 financial year, the amounts outstanding for the 2003 financial year, the allocations to date for the 2004 financial year and outstanding amounts left to be allocated for the 2004 financial year.
Answer: Administered Funds for Stronger Families and Communities Strategy initiatives* ($m) 2002-03 2003-04 Budget 40.4 53.68 Allocated 31.245 33.406 Unallocated 9.155 20.274 In 2003-04 the following funds have been set aside but are not yet formally committed: • $3.0m has been set aside for volunteer small equipment grants • $8.8m has been set aside for the National Agenda for Early Childhood (outcome 1) * Figures exclude special appropriations in relation to Child Care Benefit.
The impact of Stronger Families and Communities Strategy initiatives on Child Care Benefit is not directly identifiable.
120 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.1 Question No: 166 Topic: Stronger Families and Communities Strategy Written question on notice Senator Bishop asked: 1) Please provide a detailed breakdown of four year forward estimates for each of the elements within the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy (including final estimates for 2002- 03)?
2) For Stronger Families and Community Strategy projects please provide in table format: the name of all currently funded projects the electorate(s) in which they operate the annual funding they receive the length of funding (ie, first funded in 2002 for three years) 3) Please provide a breakdown for each of the forward estimates years of the amount of funding allocated for each year that is already committed to funded projects and the amount that is available to be allocated for new projects?
Answer: 1) Forward estimates of administered expenses from annual appropriations for the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy ($m.
): Initiative 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 Stronger families fund Early intervention Child care Leadership Local solutions Volunteers Total It should be noted that the Stronger Families and Community Strategy is a lapsing program and will be subject to review in the 2004-05 Budget context under the lapsing program review requirements.
The effects of the Strategy on departmental appropriations and on administered expenses from special appropriations are not uniquely identified in the forward estimates, and would have changed over time since the 2000-01 Budget due to factors such as changes to indexation parameters.

The following figures, which include the effects of such changes in factors, are therefore estimates.
121 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Estimated expenses from special appropriations for the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy ($m.

): Initiative 2005-06 2006-07 2003-04 2004-05 2002-03 Child care 10.489 17.229 17.712 18.154 18.608 Estimated expenses from departmental appropriations for the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy ($m.
): Initiative 2005-06 2006-07 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 All 9.469 12.022 7.174 12.594 7.507 The following are the original figures as at 2000-01 Budget for those initiatives which are met solely from departmental expenses.

Includes Longitudinal study ($m.)
Initiative 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 Longitudinal study Can do community Communication 2) See table attached 3) See table attached 0.500 1.800 1.001 3.600 0.800 1.000 0.501 - - 5.401 - - 0.500 - - 122 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 (3) Administered Funds for the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy as at 1 July 2003 OUTCOMES n 00-01 Allocatio m) ($ Stronger Families Fund Early Intervention Parenting Early Childhood Initiative Childcare* Leadership Local Solutions to Local Problems National Skills TOTAL 0.266 0.342 1.141 0.976 0.321 1.167 4.213 n 01-02 Allocatio m) ($ 6.871 11.624 6.543 9.953 3.915 3.451 42.357 nspent U 4.887 5.859 1.374 6.377 2.033 -1.339 19.191 nspent U 0.043 -0.089 0.00# 0.836 -0.026 -0.492 0.273 n m) ($ Allocatio 02-03 7.656 10.343 9.555 7.531 2.955 2.360 40.400 03/04 Expected n ($m) Allocatio 8.610 8.565 10.000 12.359 8.639 3.196 2.311 53.679 mitted m nco U 2.456 0.464 8.800 3.765 1.766 1.588 1.435 20.273 04/05 Expected n ($m) Allocatio 16.132 15.972 0.000 12.631 10.219 3.974 2.930 61.858 mitted m nco U 13.235 14.753 0.000 8.935 9.398 3.751 2.808 52.880 05/06 Expected n ($m) Allocatio 16.503 16.339 0.000 12.897 10.454 4.065 2.997 63.255 mitted m nco U 15.997 16.170 0.000 12.423 10.422 4.065 2.967 62.044 06/07 Expected n ($m) Allocatio 16.882 16.715 0.000 13.167 10.695 4.159 3.066 64.684 mitt m nco U 16.882 16.715 0.000 13.024 10.695
 4.159 3.066 64.541 nspent U 1.597 2.395 -0.174 4.543 0.342 0.039 0.413 9.155 * Figures exclude special appropriations in relation to Child Care Benefit.
The impact of Stronger Families and Communities Strategy initiatives on Child Care Benefit expenses is not directly identifiab # Childcare allocation was overspent by $1.046m using the funding from the Child Care Broadband.
123 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Blank page 124 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Project Title Electorate Total Amount Approved Summary Community Partnerships Programme Partnerships for Prosperity.
Volunteers Sharing Dementia Care "Connect Four" action based program "New Farmers" Volunteer Development Program "No Dole" Project at Rockhampton State High School 2001 "Playskills" - Early Intervention Program for Preschoolers and their families Aboriginal Dance Workshops Aboriginal Mens Program Accommodating Change - Regional Housing for Community Workers Adult Seasons for Growth AFL Leadership Programme.
African Community Youth Partnership Program Albany Reconciliation Harmony Ball AMBA - video and promotional material Anti-Violence Project - Lismore Ashmont Community Resource Centre Auburn Small Business Skills Development Project Australian Indigenous Rural Leadership Program Awakening of the Wandjina Bagot Community Nutrition program Balonne Indigenous Leadership Coordinator Barossa Youth Action Plan Barunga Nursery School Project Beenleigh Families' Information Centre (Families Now) Belmont Community Facilitator Beltana Year of the Outback Better Start Program Chifley,Greenway,Hunter Kennedy Fraser,Canberra Curtin Brisbane Capricornia Fraser Parkes Port Adelaide Kalgoorlie Dickson Lingiari Melbourne Forrest Kingsford-Smith,State-Wide Page Riverina Reid National Kalgoorlie Solomon Maranoa Wakefield Lingiari Forde Swan Grey Fairfax,Fisher $119,160 $42,196 $18,500 $51,631 $54,280 $30,000 First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year $49,224 First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in
 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 4 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years First funded in 2000-2001 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2000-2001 for 4 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years $7,150 $132,538 $51,198 $112,560 $24,560 $55,000 $4,092 $10,000 $170,190 $342,150 $24,130 $400,000 $20,400 $47,000 $294,798 $6,000 $18,694 $420,650 $25,000 $5,087 $176,225 125 Beyond the Basics Beyond Their Limits - Sporting Heroes BiG Brekky BIG hART Bimbadeeen Indigenous In-community Leadership Training Black on Track - Hunter Boggabilla and Toomelah CommunityLink Information and Access Centre Coordinator.
Boonah Can-do Project Booraka Personal Futures Planning Project Booringa Shire Adventure Campsite Boree Aboriginal Corporation--Koori Link Borroloola Community Services Plan.
Bowraville Growing Community Break O'Day Training Needs Analysis and Training Plan Break O'Day Volunteer Resource Centre Bridges Community Leadership Project - Blacktown Bridgewater Urban Renewal Project Bright Start Broken Hill Community Centre Renovations Project Broken Hill Community Mentoring Broughton Plains Community Hub Building a Cambodian community-Reconnecting Children, Young people and Parents Building Better Boards Conference Building Better Communities to Support the Unemployed Building Capacity to Support Dads Building Community in Mandurah Building Community Program Building on Basics Building Rural Leaders - Ms Alison Jones Building Strong and Healthy Families in Derby Building Stronger Families and Communities in the Daly/Cox-Finniss Region Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Adelaide National Fairfax,Fisher National Riverina,State-Wide Paterson Gwydir Forde Forrest Maranoa Calare Lingiari Cowper Lyons Lyons Chifley,Greenway,Prospect Franklin Grey Parkes Parkes Grey Bruce,Hotham $69,412 $110,000 $8,000 $540,000 $169,000 First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years $180,876 $188,000 First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years $80,000 $56,364 $30,025 $350,000 $53,900 $262,000 $21,600 $207,463
 $189,000 $125,638 $764,721 $25,000 $12,000 $18,750 $97,366 First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2000-2001 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2000-2001 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 4 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years Bennelong Denison,Lyons,Bass,Franklin $18,181 $242,416 First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years National Brand Port Adelaide Goldstein,Melbourne Ports Dawson Kalgoorlie Lingiari $180,000 $306,443 $28,000 $28,000 $1,000 $564,610 $470,140 First funded in 2003-2004 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 4 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years 126 Building Stronger Families: Empowering parents to prevent bullying Bungaba Community Development Bush Mob Byron Innovators Cairns Youth Mentoring Scheme Cambrai Community Playground Capacity Builder Projects Capacity Building for Families of Children with Disabilities Project Cape York Indigenous Community Workshop Cape York
 Men's Leadership Forum Capital Region Community Leadership Program.
Caring Across Communities Cartwright Family Connections Project Celebrating Lancefield Together - Community Action Group Centacare Bathurst Early Intervention Parenting Funds Central Coast men's Group - Indigenous Learning Central West Volunteer Skills Development Chances for Children Child and Parent Expo.
Children and Families Everywhere - Enfield (CAFE) Children and Violence Music Development Project Chinese Parents Group Choose with Care: Building National Capacity to Create Safer Organisations & Environments for Australia's Children Claymore Employment Cooperative Project Coledale (Tamworth) residents under 12's project Community "young families drop-in" project Community Animators Training Strategy Community Capacity Builder - Cloncurry Community Capacity Builder - Mary Valley Community Capacity Builder - Mount Morgan Community Capacity Builder - Tara Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Perth Gwydir Lingiari Richmond Leichhardt Barker State-Wide Batman Leichhardt Leichhardt State-Wide Canberra Werriwa Burke $278,017 First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years $38,500 $185,000 $15,000 $199,723 $5,000 $8,958 $6,097 $66,500 $81,200 $152,000 $51,500 $118,664 $40,000 First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years Calare,Parkes $624,548 First funded in
 2001-2002 for 3 years Dobell Calare Farrer,Mallee Barker Adelaide Solomon Bruce,Holt,Hotham,Isaacs National Macarthur New England Throsby Lilley,Longman,Petrie Kennedy Fairfax Hinkler Maranoa First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2003-2004 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2000-2001 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year $7,000 $140,000 $50,000 $5,000 $312,845 $30,000 $11,781 $275,000 $192,550 $65,000 $8,500 $110,525 $27,442 $32,600 $30,000 $30,000 127 Community Capacity Builder - Woorabinda Community Capacity Builders - Gulf Savannah Community Capacity Builders - North Stradbroke Island Community Capital Community Connections-Waverley Chances for Children Community Coordinator in Miriam Vale Community Development Unit Community Empowerment Project Community Finance Initiative Community Information Centre Community Leaders Mentoring Program Community Leadership Project Community Partnership Project Albury Community Shed Community Strengthening Project - Stage 2 Community Strengthening Project - Stage 2.
Community Supporting Community Community Volunteer Training Confident Parenting Program Connecting Families Wagga Wagga Project Connecting Parents Connecting the Community (Revised Submission) Coober Pedy Youth Leadership Project Cootamundra Families & Communities Self -Help Programme Counsellor based In Cessnock Creating Capable Communities Croc Festivals Cross Cultural Parenting (Northern Suburbs) Dads Admitted Back To Society (DADS) Dads in Distress Coffs Harbour Dar Al Shifah, Islamic Family Support.
Developing Effective Young Parents Developing Integrated Community Leadership in the Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Maranoa Kennedy,Leichhardt Bowman $40,000 $96,000 $35,000 First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year Lilley Bass $100,534 $216,666 First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years $30,000 $98,262 $290,200 $83,000 $40,770 Hinkler Lingiari Melbourne Moreton Melbourne Bass,Braddon,Denison,Franklin,Lyons Bonython Hume McEwen McMillan Gellibrand McPherson National Kingston Riverina Boothby,Hindmarsh Isaacs Grey Hume $30,000 $152,000 $42,000 $40,009 $40,661 $14,950 $25,000 $141,540 $180,000 $500,816 $345,764 $182,766 $54,000 First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2000-2001 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 4 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 4 years First funded in
 2001-2002 for 3 years Hunter Goldstein,Hotham,Melbourne Ports National Bonython,Makin Oxley Cowper Perth O'Connor Parkes $238,500 First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years $200,000 $91,926 $19,644 $69,139 $125,994 $160,000 $42,200 First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years 128 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Melbourne $213,400 First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years Central West of NSW Development and implementation of parenting supports for parents with a disability Development of Great Mates mentoring program in the Hunter Valley and in Mt Druitt Chifley,Hunter,Newcastle,Pat erson First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years Stirling Boothby Herbert Lingiari Prospect Lingiari Wentworth National Bass,Franklin,Lyons Kalgoorlie Longman Maranoa Kalgoorlie O'Connor Development of leadership skills in CALD communities.
Disability Help Project Diversity Community Garden Townsville Djamarr'kuli Maynmak Nuthanawuy Djama Do It Yourself Project (DIY) St Clair Docker River Kungka's Mentoring Project Early Intervention and Prevention for families at Risk Casey,McEwen,Aston Eastern Suburbs Community Leadership Program Emergency Relief Training and Development Enormity Inc. Enterprise Development in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands Equipment for Children's Therapy Playgroup Esk/Kilcoy Shires Skill Development project Esperance Relationship Counselling Establish community action groups for Aboriginal families.
Establishment of Community Garden Eureka Family & Children's Services Centre Evaluation of "Connections" Project Evaluation of Indigenous Community Action Groups Project Extended Family Extension of "Connections" Project Extension of Uncles and Aunties Program in the NSW North Coast Eyes Wide Open Eyes Wide Open - Phase 2 FACET (Family Outreach Project) Facilitated Community Capacity Building - Goonellabah Fairbridge: Pathways for Young People Program Brand Brand Oxley Page Canning Capricornia Ballarat Parkes,Richmond,Wentworth O'Connor Brisbane,Dickson,Petrie Parkes,Richmond,Wentworth Richmond $139,805 First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years $91,463 $46,800 $68,090 $86,300 $76,888 $238,800 $216,360 $98,726 $148,000 $30,000 $13,700 $52,941 $124,920 $108,000 $33,053 $12,407 $15,000 $12,000 $83,800 $69,600 $137,500 $56,490 $74,490 $634,912 $88,220 First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2000-2001 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2000-2001 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2003-2004 for 1 year
 First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years $300,000 First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years 129 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Families in Cultural
 Transition Family / Parenting Day 2002 Family and Community Centre Co-ordinator - Merimbula Family and Friends - Parent Aide Program Family and Friends - South Gold Coast Parent Aide Program Family as Community Family Communication Program Family Counsellor Family Income Management Trials (Cape York) Family Magazine "Zena 21" Family Networks: Getting the Most for You and Your Child's Future Family Support Service Family Support Worker for Migrant Families in Auburn LGA Family Violence Prevention Program Family Wholeness Program Family Worker in Hackham West Community Centre Fatherhood Support Project Finding Yourself Fit-out of Community Centre and Library in Aramac Food, Family and Culture Project Food-share - expansion to South and North Coasts Food-share - expansion to South and North Coasts - Variation Footprints to the Future Forster trauma support Fostering Resilient Families Friends of Campbelltown TAFE Child Studies Playgroup Fusion Mentoring Program Future Parents Program Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual and Transgender (GLBT) Anti-Violence Committee (Townsville) Geraldton Community Facilitator Prospect Brisbane Eden-Monaro Moncrieff McPherson Lingiari Parramatta Gwydir Leichhardt National,Reid Holt Barker Reid Higgins,Melbourne Ports Brisbane Kingston Bonython,Port Adelaide Farrer,Murray Capricornia Brisbane Gilmore,Page,Cowper Sydney Bass Paterson Moore Macarthur Wakefield Brisbane Herbert O'Connor $382,990 $7,500 $131,150 First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years
 First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years $207,548 $260,974 First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years $264,408 $11,000 $10,000 $1,447,988 $50,400 $127,344 First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years $165,000 $133,026 First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First
 funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years $297,484 $19,800 $80,253 $141,844 $60,325 $16,500 $28,878 $255,000 $15,000 $137,080 $75,000 $330,670 $81,800 $13,040 $226,323 $64,755 First funded in 2001-2002 for 4 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2000-2001 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2000-2001 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 4 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2000-2001 for 2 years $25,000 First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years 130 Get Active Getting their voice heard - strengthening the Aboriginal network in Halls Creek Gilles Plains Community Garden Project Girls' Time Out Pre-Parenting Support Program Glen Mervyn Young Women's Health Program Golden Plains Rural Development Program Good Beginnings - Latrobe Good Beginnings/VACCA Indigenous Parenting Program Goodwood Connect Gordon Estate Community Centre Coordinator Goyder's Line Arid Botanical Garden & Interpretive Centre Grandparenting across cultures Great Mates Great Southern Befrienders Project Groovy Grannies Woman's Day promotion Gudu Safe House development support - Eden Gunnedah Miners Support Group--service access co-ordinator
 Gurriny Yealamaucka - Family Well Being Project Gwabegar and Pilliga CommunityLink Centre Co- ordinator Hastings Women's and Children's Refuge Hayes Park School and Community Hall Healing and Re-empowerment Health Promoting Homes - parenting program Health Services Accommodation at Longreach 'Helping Families' - an Intensive Youth & Family Support Project Hervey Bay Indigenous Community Leadership Training Home based learning - Various Regions Home Budgeting Program - Empowering the Community Home Services
 Directory Horn of Africa Recreation/Education program - Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Dawson Kalgoorlie Sturt Capricornia Kingsford-Smith Corangamite McMillan Batman,Jagajaga Denison Parkes Grey Wills Stirling O'Connor National Eden-Monaro Gwydir Leichhardt Gwydir Lyne Throsby Brand Fraser,Canberra Capricornia Kalgoorlie $1,300 $15,500 First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years $20,470 $92,238 $120,545 $35,000 $286,092 $68,316 $236,693 $236,000 $15,693 $200,000 $280,000 $2,500 $60,000 $18,250 $17,230 First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 4 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2000-2001 for 4 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2000-2001 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year $79,600 $161,400 First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years $82,250 $2,800 $21,875 $109,940 $32,520 $231,120 First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for
 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 4 years Wide Bay $41,984 First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years Shortland Fraser,Canberra Ryan Melbourne $265,300 $2,500 First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year $1,600 $11,828 First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years 131 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY
 SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Sewing project Horton House Nursing Home - Breakfast Club Hunter Caravan Parks - Community Leadership Strategy Hunter Childrens Services Forum Hunter Community Renewal Scheme - Hunter Housing Maintenance Employment Training Project Hume Shortland Newcastle Shortland Kingsford-Smith O'Connor Gwydir Throsby Brand Lingiari,Solomon Hyden People Care Support Officer I Care About Me Illawarra Community Development Partnership Imagine Kwinana (Building a Stronger Kwinana) Indigenous Community Education (Financial Literacy) Project Indigenous Community Justice Mechanisms Indigenous Debutante Ball, Bourke Indigenous Diabetes Management and Care Program Indigenous Home Instruction Program for Pre-school Youngsters (HIPPY) Indigenous Scouting Project Indigenous Youth & Men Social management Project Grey Indigerelate Lismore Integrated Approach to Family Capacity Building Integrated Service Response to Pregnant and Parenting Young People International Year of Volunteers Skills Development Island Quarry Community Participation Project - Byron Bay Ivanhoe Youth Program Journey of Healing and Hope Through Song Jumbunna Intensive Parenting Project Jump Start Jumpstart Kentish Community Capacity Building Kickin the Blues Kids + Sport Kids Helping Kids with Disabilities National Gwydir Kalgoorlie National Richmond Leichhardt Forde National Richmond Parkes Brisbane Page Maranoa Brisbane,Lilley Lyons Parkes Fraser National $5,000
 $87,000 First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years $100,000 $60,000 First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years $112,952 $3,250 $539,000 $50,000 $150,000 $80,000 $15,000 $60,000 First funded in 2001-2002 for 4 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2003-2004 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First
 funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year $200,000 First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years $1,304,000 $153,021 $200,910 $727,500 $204,326 First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years $50,000 $150,000 First funded in 2000-2001 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years $42,500 $16,068 $195,000 $39,068 $28,004 $47,000 $83,354 $150,000 $100,000 First funded in 2000-2001 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2000-2001 for 4 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years 132 Kiwirrkurra Community Project Koori Guudhas Playgroup Koori Parenting Project Krafty Kids Project Kunbarllanjnjna Strong Community Program Kununurra Men's House Lajamanu Horse Sports Le Fevre Children's Drop-In Program Lead On Lead On Leadership Development Program for youth at Mowla Bluff.
Leadership Program in Miriam Vale Leadership Project Leadership Project LEGS (Learning, Enjoying, Growing and Support) for Early Childhood In Rystone Life Be In It Leadership Program Lightning Ridge Family and Community Workshops local government mapping Local government mapping Local government mapping Local government mapping Local government mapping Local government mapping Local government mapping Local government mapping Local government mapping Local government mapping Local Government Mapping Local Government Mapping Local Government Mapping Local government mapping exercise Local Volunteer Help Service Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Kalgoorlie Hume Indi Gwydir Lingiari Kalgoorlie Lingiari Port Adelaide Mallee,Murray Oxley Kalgoorlie Hinkler Melbourne Sydney Calare $120,000 $129,040 $159,000 $79,000 $60,000 $284,297 $30,000 $58,053 $260,000 $132,000 $262,500 $49,080 $387,486 $18,000 $110,550 First funded in 2000-2001 for 4 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2000-2001 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 4 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 3
 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years Adelaide Gwydir Gellibrand Batman,Calwell,Melbourne,Wi lls Bendigo Bruce,Holt,Hotham,Isaacs Burke,Gellibrand,Lalor,Mariby rnong Corangamite,Corio Dunkley,Flinders Gippsland Indi,McEwen McMillan Batman,Jagajaga Calwell Bendigo (Loddon Shire) Ballarat,Bendigo Canberra,Fraser $21,200 $45,800 $10,000 First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in
 2001-2002 for 2 years $10,000 $10,000 First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years $10,000 $10,000 $10,000 $10,000 $10,000 $10,000 $10,000 $10,000 $10,000 $10,000 First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year 133 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Lower Bucca PreSchool Group Macarthur Resident Leadership project Making Happen a Nannup Community Project Maleny Community Audit Needs Analysis and Strategic Plan Mandurah community development Mandurah Community Planning Mature Age Working Project Men and Family Relationships Program Mens Mobile Resource Unit Men's Parenting Program Men's Shed Mentoring Program Merredin Child Health Centre Relocation Mid West Gascoyne Parent Support Project (EIP) Mid West Parent Support Project - Phase 2 (SFF) Midvale Parenting Project Miimi Mothers Creative Circles Milang Community Resource Centre Minimbah Young Aboriginal Families Support Program Minto Under 12's Project Mobile Community Facilitator - Western Sydney
 Mobile Toy Library Moira regional community revitilization program MOPS: Mothers of PreSchoolers - Wyong Mothers of Preschool Children (MOPS) Mt Pierre Experiential Learning Program Muli Community (Woodenbong) Wheels to Meals Project.
Muloobinba Aboriginal Family Support Service Multicultural Council Family Officer Multicultural Family and Community Building Project Multicultural Lifeskills Project Cowper Macarthur,Werriwa Forrest Longman Brand Brand Bradfield Lyne Richmond Chisholm,Hotham Barker Kingston Kalgoorlie O'Connor O'Connor Pearce Cowper Barker New England Werriwa Greenway,Mitchell Eden-Monaro Murray Dobell Wakefield Kalgoorlie Page Hunter,Newcastle,Shortland Solomon Brisbane,Dawson,Fairfax,Fish er,Herbert,Hinkler,Leichhardt, McPherson,Moncrieff,Moreton ,Rankin,Wide Bay Rankin $42,400 $253,476 $8,500 $25,670 $7,500 $33,455 $15,000 $245,890 $189,489 $4,820 $10,076 $40,429 $10,000 $250,000 $81,159 $198,000 $70,000 $27,626 $191,000 $393,000 $60,000 $195,500 $75,000 $5,000 $5,000 $80,355 $5,000 First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 4 years First funded in 2003-2004 for 1 year First funded in 2000-2001 for 4 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 4 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years
 First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 4 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year $163,170 $117,068 First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years $338,325 First funded in 2000-2001 for 4 years 134 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO
 ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Newcastle Cowper Maranoa National Maranoa Cowper Cowper Parkes National Multicultural Neighbourhood Centre Workshops - Newcastle Multimedia and Stagecraft Training (MAST) [previously: Leadership, Training and Mentorship Pre-employment Skills for Youth] Murilla Day Care Centre Murray Darling Basin Commission Murri Murri Month Nambucca Blokes Project Nambucca Men's Shed Narromine Community Needs Workshop National Arts & Museums Regional Volunteer Skills Project National Capital Education Tourism Project National Homelessness Conference National Peers Skills Program National Torture and Trauma proposal National Volunteer Skills Centre Network of Ex-Residents of Queensland Institutions Networking the Networks Newpin Fathers Program - Blacktown Non-English Speaking Background Parents Program Moreton Noongar Nyininy Family Support Officer Noosa Shire Pilot Program to Provide Intervention to Families and Friends Bereaved through Suicide O'Connor Fairfax National Solomon National Solomon National State-Wide Curtin Chifley,Greenway North Casino Management and Skills Project Northern Country Regions Interest Free Loan Program Northern Rivers Indigenous Leadership Program Northern Tablelands Aboriginal Planning Forum Northwest NSW Leadership Program - Ben Soc Nundah Community Enterprise Cooperative Ocean Shores Parenting, Relationships and Drug Awareness courses.
On Track - Youth Leadership Orana Playgroup/ Early Intervention Project Our Community - Answers from Within Page Grey Lyne New England,Cowper New England Lilley Richmond National Parkes Indi $45,249 First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years $79,000 First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years $28,300 $60,000 $10,000 $76,697 $96,000 $6,000 $600,000 $300,000 $1,000 $173,000 $144,546 $1,600,000 $219,864 $22,345 $216,300 $150,296 $12,230 $39,390 First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2000-2001 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2003-2004 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 4 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2003-2004 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year $79,215 $80,000 First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years $210,000 $186,860 $50,000 $24,450 $20,095 $980,000 $322,910 $21,090 First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years
 First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year 135 Ourcommunity.com.au P5 Program PALS Project Parent Aide Program - Hervey Bay Parent Trouble-shooting Team Parenting for Refugees Parenting program for Large Families Parenting support service for teenage mums who use Balga Senior High School Childcare Service.
Parenting with Understanding Program Parents & Infants Connection Service (PICS) Parents & Kids Together Parents of Hemiplegia children website.
Parents Only (Adults Only) Parents with a mental illness Partnering Vulnerable Families Partners in Parenting Pathways for Families Peace Park Nimbin Peer Support Program Phase 2 of the Kimberley Management Support Service Feasibility Study Pingelly Youth Skate Park Planning Project for Moree SFF Proposal Play Equipment for Erin House Playgroup In A Box Playgroup leaders for Ethnic Communities Positive Parenting of Toddlers : A primary care initiative Posters Power Community Youth Programme Preventing Family Violence Workshop Progressive Youth Promoting Positive Youth Leadership - Millmerran Promoting family and community wellness in the Spanish Speaking Community of Victoria Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 National Forde,Oxley Kingston Wide Bay Forde Bruce,Gellibrand Melbourne Ports Stirling Barker,Grey,Wakefield Solomon Denison,Franklin,Lyons National,Bennelong Bonython Solomon Curtin Canberra Kingston Page Higgins Kalgoorlie Pearce Gwydir Fairfax Lingiari Wills Melbourne Brisbane National Brisbane Maranoa,Groom $84,909 $23,693 $22,700 $301,391 $16,765 $291,935 $32,400 $157,000 $27,448 $95,728 $325,000 $5,000 $62,413 $332,000 $339,880 $167,449 $566,251 $33,000 $34,511 $80,000 $31,000 $15,000 $20,100 $60,000 $42,000 $109,818 $3,180 $100,000 $111,597 $102,900 First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First
 funded in 2000-2001 for 4 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 4 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 4 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003
 for 4 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years Burke,Calwell,Gellibrand,Lalo r,Maribyrnong,McEwen $323,205 First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years 136 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Provicare/Greek Archdiocese of Australia Pt Augusta Community Leadership Program Put the Spirit Back in Molendinar Putting Eggs into Other Baskets Quality Relationships Alliance Ramingining Women's Centre Ramingining Womens Centre Project Reclaiming the Future - the Youth of Papunya Region Recognition and Development of Emergency Management Volunteers Recreation support for young families Red Ochre Links - Dubbo Redcliffe Domestic Violence Support Service Project Relationship Skills - Far North Coast Schools Relaying our Tracks Renovate/Extend premises to establish a Multi- functional Community Centre Resourceful Parenting Returning Them Home - Video Production Revitalising our Community River Reconnect
 River Towns - Bourke River Towns - Brewarrina River Towns - Walgett River Towns - Wilcannia Riverwood Leadership Project Roebourne Cross Cultural Festival Rural Family Counselling Service Rural Leadership Program Safe Schools Safe Communities School Readiness - Making the Transition from Preschool to School SDN Services Early Intervention Program - Waterloo Seasons for Growth Seasons Pre-Adolescent Parenting Program & Support Service Perth Grey Moncrieff O'Connor Brand Lingiari Lingiari Lingiari National Grey
 Parkes Petrie Richmond Grey Forrest Grey Solomon O'Connor Cowper Gwydir Gwydir Gwydir Parkes Banks Kalgoorlie Groom,Maranoa Adelaide Canberra Canberra Sydney Kalgoorlie Sturt $250,000 $31,000 $52,520 $5,230 $407,870 $110,000 $40,000 $20,000 First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 4 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years First funded in 2000-2001 for 2 years First funded in 2003-2004 for 1 year $158,000 First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2000-2001 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 5 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years $5,000 $358,000 $100,000 $325,140
 $29,746 $17,500 $224,530 $26,625 $3,000 $4,100 $121,058 $121,058 $121,058 $121,058 $15,700 $7,273 $535,034 $150,297 $5,000 $6,150 $319,000 $5,121 $156,496 137 Second Generation Young Vietnamese Parenting Project (Western Suburbs) Seeding and Sustaining Stronger Communities Sewing and Craft Group Shoalhaven Youth Development Demonstration Project - Extension Silkwood Early Learning Centre Silver Bridle Community Capacity Building Sleep on Satellite Small Rural Communities conference SMILE: Supporting Mothers
 in a Loving Environment South Inverell Residents Association Self Management Project South Kempsey Mums Craft Group and Kids Club South West Area Network (SWAN) Building Local Capacity South West Financial Solutions Southern Fleurieu Early Childhood and Parenting Program Southern Rangelands Regional Youth Council Southside Good Beginnings Home Visiting Program Spirit of Peachey Project Spirit of the West SportConnect - A Leadership Program for Young Australians Sporting Heroes Project St Saviours Guided Playsessions Stage 2 - Regional Stores Policy Project Stonger Families and Communities - Stage 2 Streetcruise Strengthening Families - Stage 2 Strengthening Families across the Ngaanyatjarra Lands Strengthening Families in Wiluna and the Western Desert Strengthening Families Program Strengthening Families Project Variation Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Adelaide,Port Adelaide $68,755 First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years Melbourne Forrest Gilmore Kennedy Moncrieff Swan Indi Parkes New England,Gwydir Lyne Blair,Groom,Maranoa,Wide Bay Forrest Barker Grey Canberra Bonython Adelaide,Hindmarsh,Port Adelaide National National Hume Grey Bruce,Holt,Hotham,Isaacs Richmond Corio Kalgoorlie $85,000 $5,955 $45,000 $29,705 $26,000 $105,000 $17,280 $46,370 $45,500 First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First
 funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2000-2001 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2000-2001 for 4 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year $60,000 First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years $11,300 $179,422 First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years $30,000 $157,141 $203,850 First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in
 2002-2003 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year $640,000 First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years $150,000 $11,000 $169,000 $62,500 $37,000 $39,632 $1,041,250 First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 4 years Kalgoorlie $202,400 First funded in 2003-2004 for 3 years Brisbane,Dickson,Lilley,Petrie Bowman $201,140 $218,034 First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2003-2004 for 1 year 138 Strengthening Indigenous Communities Pilots (Wadeye) Strengthening Links (Demonstration Project) Strengthening Mining Families in the Eastern Goldfields Stretching the Boundaries Stronger Families and Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Stronger Families and Communities Strategy - Phase 2 Project Stronger Farm Families Stronger women Stronger Communities Stump-Jump Community Leadership Program Support for Families of Children with a Disability Supported Play Groups, Ashmont Estate, Wagga Wagga Supporting Children and families where a parent has a mental illness TAD - Volunteer recuitment and promotion program Talking Realities Peer Leader Project Taree Locale - Bus shed Tasmania's Can Do Community Leadership Workshop Tennant Creek Youth Initiative and Safe Community Strategy The Active Community Project The Animation
 Project The Back Verandah The Better Life Project The Bush Breakaway Youth Action Program The Everyday of Parenting The Family Connections Project The Family Day Care 'Working with Families' Project The Foundation The GAIN Project - "Growing an Innovative Neighbourhood" The Gold Coast School and Community FAMILIES Project Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 National Adelaide
 Kalgoorlie $250,000 First funded in 2000-2001 for 3 years $223,848 $200,460 First funded in 2000-2001 for 4 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years McPherson,Moncrieff Ryan $24,668 $198,912 First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years Batman $45,000 First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year Gwydir Murray Farrer Higgins,State-Wide Riverina $162,000 $31,554 $207,900 $389,800 $51,915 First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years Curtin $391,850 First funded in 2003-2004 for 3 years Bennelong,State-Wide Port Adelaide Lyne Bass,Braddon,Denison,Franklin,Lyons $40,000 $91,857 $6,000 First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year Lingiari $260,890 First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years Canberra Macarthur Grey Brisbane Grey Richmond Prospect Bonython Herbert Burke,Calwell,McEwen $45,000 $149,200 $316,739 $243,770 $76,069 $160,000 $87,300 $125,966 $12,200 $165,030 First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2000-2001 for 1 year First funded in 2003-2004 for 1 year
 Fadden,Moncrieff,McPherson,Forde 139 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 The Jigsaw 2020 Project The Mukinbudin FM Radio Fund The Pines Community Building Project The Platforms Strategy The Play Program The Story of A Can Do Community Delivering Through A Social Coalition The Strengthening Families Project The Sunrise Project The Way Forward: A Young Women's Leadership Program
 The WellingTONNE Challenge Through the Looking Glass - a community partnership in parenting Titjikala Men's Centre Tjurabalan Community Capacity Building Pilot Project Tomorrow's Leaders Camps Toowoomba Home Visitation Program Top end family forum Touch Football Train the trainer project for Tamworth Seniors Computer Club Training volunteers in pre and post natal support - State wide Transition to High School Parenting Program Transport Co-ordinator - Diamantina Shire Triple M Project: Murri Men MENDing Tungkillo Community Hall Under 5's - Read to Me United Community Spirit Unleashed - Goondiwindi Youth Conference Upgrade of Community Centre and Library in Muttaburra Urban Community Foundations URGENT UTS Community Leadership Program Valley's Field Day Dobell O'Connor Dunkley Maribyrnong,Wills Cowper National Griffith Melbourne Ports Brisbane Gwydir Adelaide Solomon Kalgoorlie Solomon Groom Kalgoorlie Lilley New England State-Wide Lilley,Petrie Maranoa Oxley Wakefield Blair Herbert Maranoa Kennedy National Corio Macarthur,Greenway,Chifley Blair $40,000 $9,000 $496,440 $318,000 $79,430 $23,500 $172,761 $14,865 $350,630 First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years $17,600
 $98,530 First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years $38,589 $100,000 First funded in 2000-2001 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years $212,742 $211,671 $26,500 $9,000 $4,500 First funded in 2000-2001 for 4 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year $308,095 First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years $158,331 $34,000 $271,092 $32,910 $46,197 $14,600 $40,000 $15,000
 $194,691 $49,600 $213,594 $16,841 First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year 140 Valuing Volunteers - Training and support program Variation'WAVES Program: Welfare And Vocational Extended Support Victorian Koori Community Leadership Projects Volunteer Here!
Volunteer Recruitment and Training Volunteer Skills Development in ER services.
Volunteer Training Volunteering NSW: Skills Passport Volunteers assiting families with a parent who has an acquired brain injury Wagin Lakes Cultural Heritage Study Walgett Aboriginal Mens Group Wallangarra 'discover your personal best' Wanneroo-Stirling Community Facilitator WASH House - early intervention for parents Mt Druitt WAVES Program: Welfare And Vocational Extended Support Wednesday Mothers Group Welcome Brimbank Wellington Community Net-workers West Belconnen Good Beginnings Program West Kempsey parents group facilitator Cowper Wheatbelt Community Builders Clusters project O'Connor Wheatbelt Community Development Officer project O'Connor Whittlesea Volunteer Action Project McEwen Wide Bay Burnett Indigenous Stronger Family Program Wide Bay/Burnett Building Rural Leaders Program Hinkler,Wide Bay Hinkler,Wide Bay Wilderness Intervention Program Curtin Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Gippsland Newcastle Melbourne Burke Solomon State-Wide National National Adelaide O'Connor Gwydir Maranoa Cowan Chifley $87,541 $30,000 First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year $175,000 $19,800 $154,922 $240,000 $40,435 $78,000 $6,000 $7,200 $305,000 $4,988 $25,000 $78,150 First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2000-2001 for 2
 years First funded in 2000-2001 for 2 years First funded in 2000-2001 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years Newcastle,Charlton $90,000 First funded in 2000-2001 for 3 years Parkes Burke,Calwell,Gellibrand,Lalo r,Maribyrnong Gwydir Fraser $30,029 First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2
 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 4 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years $140,000 $136,695 $40,000 $60,000 $25,000 $235,523 $937,132 $116,312 $240,259 141 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Windorah Sports Camp 2001 Capricornia,Maranoa Windorah Sports Camp 2003-04 With Work In Sight Maranoa State-Wide Woodbine Community for Safer Skate Park Macarthur Wreck Bay Aboriginal Community Childhood Early Intervention project Wugularr Community Video Project Wugularr Womens Activities Fraser Lingiari Lingiari Wyong Shire Local Solutions Development Project Dobell Xavier Sibling Group Project Griffith Yarram and District Young People's Enterprise Gippsland Yarrenyty-Arltere Learning Centre Yellow Bus Service, Albury Lingiari Farrer Yothu Yindi School Tour Lingiari,Solomon Young children and families meet the service system Indi Young Families Support Service Groom,Maranoa Young Families with Problematic Substance Use Newcastle Young Family Support Project Young Leaders in rural Australia Young Media Australia Young Mums Group Herbert Not Known National Mallee Young Mums Support Project - Phase 2 (SFF) Curtin First
 funded in 2000-2001 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2003-2004 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2000-2001 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003
 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 4 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years $4,500 $10,650 $40,000 $20,000 $103,528 $22,500 $25,000 $43,200 $30,000 $33,700 $142,440 $80,000 $60,000 $145,616 $264,601 $99,551 $524,320 $207,450 $14,250 $45,165 142 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Young Mums Support Project (EIP) Young Parenting Project Young People as Community Leaders Youth - Development, Recreation, Entertainment and Management (Y-DREAM) Youth Action Centres - Latrobe City Curtin Hume Kingston Solomon McMillan Youth and Community Development Program Farrer Youth Community Connections Youth Facilitator in Mount Morgan Youth Forum Adelaide Hinkler La Trobe Youth Information, Referral and Outreach Service Dawson Youth Insearch camps for young people State-Wide Youth Insearch camps for young people State-Wide Youth Leadership Development Project Kennedy Youth Opportunities Bonython,Makin Youth services website - Illawarra.
Cunningham Yuelamu Community Activities Lingiari First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 2 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 2 years First funded in 2001-2002 for 3 years First funded in 2002-2003 for 1 year First funded in 2001-2002 for 1 year $183,405 $91,000 $154,800 $98,085 $281,202 $22,680 $70,019 $40,000 $5,850 $405,270 $73,200 $78,610 $146,732 $100,000 $10,000 $15,800 143 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.1 Question No: 46 Topic: Stronger Families and Communities Strategy Hansard Page: CA378 Senator Bishop asked: Stronger Families and Communities Strategy – (a) Please provide for each state the name, location, grant funding amount, federal electorate and funding duration for each project (b) Please provide a table that shows the budgeted allocation for each of the sub programs within the strategy for the forward estimates period (c) Please include in that table the amount of budgeted funding that is yet to be assigned to an approved applicant organisation or
 project.
Answer: (a) See Attached Table [Note: the attachment has not been included in the electronic/printed volume] (b) Forward estimates of administered expenses from annual appropriations for the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy ($m.
): Initiative 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 Stronger families fund Early intervention Child care Leadership Local solutions Volunteers Total It should be noted that the Stronger Families and Community Strategy is a lapsing program and will be subject to review in the 2004-05 Budget context under the lapsing program review requirements.
The effects of the Strategy on departmental appropriations and on administered expenses from special appropriations are not uniquely identified in the forward estimates, and would have changed over time since the 2000-01 Budget due to factors such as changes to indexation parameters.

The following figures, which include the effects of such changes in factors, are therefore estimates.

Estimated expenses from special appropriations for the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy ($m.
): 144 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO Initiative Child care 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 10.489 17.229 17.712 18.154 18.608 Estimated expenses from departmental appropriations for the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy ($m.
): Initiative 2004-05 2002-03 2003-04 2005-06 2006-07 All 9.469 12.022 7.174 12.594 7.507 The following are the original figures as at 2000-01 Budget for those initiatives which are met solely from departmental expenses.

Includes Longitudinal study ($m.)
Initiative 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 Longitudinal study Can do community Communication 0.500 1.800 1.001 3.600 0.800 1.000 0.501 - - 5.401 - - 0.500 - - c) See table attached [Note: the table has not been included in the electronic/printed volume] 145 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.1 Question No: 39 Topic: Stronger Families and Communities Strategy Hansard Page: CA358 Senator Collins asked: Stronger Families and Communities Strategy – (a) (b) Please provide a list of the types of projects that were seeking funding prior to this announcement applications by community groups for consideration for funding Answer: (a) and (b) Attached is a list of community based applications (project outlines) seeking funding prior to the announcement of the Early Childhood Initiative by the initiative of the Strategy they applied for funding under.
[Note: the attachment has not been included in the electronic/printed volume] 146 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.1 Question No: 44 Topic: Stronger Families and Communities Strategy Hansard Page: CA365 Senator Bishop asked: Please provide details of the electorate each project is based in.
Answer: Projects announced under the Early Childhood Initiative and the electorates they are based in are shown in the attached table.
147 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Project Title Electorate Second Generation Young Vietnamese Parenting Project (Western Suburbs) Adelaide,Port Adelaide Cross Cultural Parenting (Northern Suburbs) Bonython,Makin Redland Community Centre Strengthening Families Project Bowman The GAIN Project - "Growing an Innovative Neighbourhood" Burke,Calwell,McEwen Lower Bucca PreSchool Group Equipment for Children's Therapy Playgroup Murilla Day Care Centre Dads Admitted Back To Society (DADS) The Everyday of Parenting Cowper Longman Maranoa Oxley Richmond National Research Alliance for Children & Youth projects National Grandparents and Young Children National 148 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.1 Question No: 41 Topic: Taskforce on Child Development, Health and Wellbeing Hansard Page: CA#/Written question on notice: CA 362 Senator Bishop asked: Taskforce on Child Development, Health and Wellbeing – (a) please provide a list of each forum where you had the consultation process under way (b) a list of invitees (c) a list of attendees?
Answer: (a) Refer to table below for details: nineteen consultation meetings were held across Australia between 26 March and 10 June 2003.
National and Regional Consultations State/Territory level Consultations Canberra 26 March Melbourne 1 May Sydney 9 May Mackay 19 May Mt Gambier (SA) 23 May Bunbury (WA) 26 May Lismore (NSW) 10 June Melbourne 6 May Sydney 8 May Townsville (part Indigenous) 15 May Brisbane (Indigenous) 16 May Darwin (part Indigenous) 19 May Sydney (Indigenous) 20 May Alice Springs (part Indigenous) 23 May Dubbo (Indigenous) 26 May Adelaide 27 May Perth 27 May Hobart 28 May Canberra 28 May (b) and (c) Lists of potential invitees were compiled based on recommendations and advice from the Commonwealth departments represented on the Taskforce.
Complete lists of all organisations invited (indicating attendance or non-attendance) have been provided in an excel attachment labelled QON Amalgamated invite list.xls.
149 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Location Date Organisation Invited Attended Canberra 26-Mar-03 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) ACROD (National Industry Association for Disability) ACT Department of Disability, Housing and Community Services ACT Department of Education, Youth and Family Services ACT Department of Justice and Community Safety ACT Health Australian Bureau of Statistics Australian College of Educators Australian Early Childhood Association Australian Foster Care Association Australian Institute of Criminology Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Australian Local Government Association Canberra Preschool Society Carers Australia Catholic Welfare Australia Centrelink, Families and Community Segment Child Support Agency Children’s Hospitals and Paediatric Units Australasia Consumers Health Forum of Australia Defence Community Organisation Department of Communications, Information, Technology and the Arts Families Australia Family Court of Australia Family Services Australia National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation National Community Child Health Council Public Health Association of Australia Relationships Australia Royal College of Nursing, Australia Melbourne 1-May-03 Anglicare Victoria Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia 150 YES YES NO YES NO YES YES NO NO NO YES YES NO NO NO YES YES NO NO NO YES YES YES YES YES NO YES NO YES YES YES NO Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Australian Breastfeeding Association Australian Council for Children and Youth Services Australian Council for Education Research Australian Education Union Australian Federation of Child Care Associations Australian Infant Mental Health Association Australian Primary Principals Association
 Australian Psychological Society Australian Scolarship Group-Friendly Society Child and Family Care Network INC Federal Magistrates Service Kindergarten Parents Victoria Ministerial Council of Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs National Aboriginal Justice Advisory Committee National Alliance for Disability, Resources and Training Agencies National Association of Community Based Children’s Services National Outside School Hours Services Association National Peak Ethnic Children's Sercice Network National Public Health Partnership Playgroup Council of Australia Royal Australian College Of General Practitioners Save the Children Fund Secretariat of the National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC) Tasmanian Commissioner for Children The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Victorian Department for Victorian Communities, Aboriginal Affairs Victoria Victorian Department of Education and Training, Community Partnerships Victorian Department of Human Services Victorian Department of Human Services, Best Start Victorian Department of Justice Victorian Department of Justice, Crime Prevention Victorian Office of Multicultural Affairs YES YES YES YES NO YES NO YES YES YES NO YES NO NO NO YES NO YES YES YES NO YES YES NO NO NO YES YES YES NO NO YES 151 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Sydney 9-May-03 Association for the Welfare of Child Health Australian Association of Parenting and Child Health Inc - Tresillian Family Care Centres Australian Confederation of Child Care Australian Council Of Social Services (ACOSS) Australian Divisions of General Practice Australian Early Childhood Association Australian Medical Association, Child and Youth Health Committee Australian Parents Council Australian Primary Schools Association Cabinet Office, The Carers Australia Child and Family Welfare Association of Australia
 CREATE Foundation National Family Day Care Council Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commissioner National Association of Mobile Services National Child Care Accreditation Council National Occasional Care Association National Outside School Hours Service Association NSW Aboriginal Justice Advisory Committee NSW Commission for Children NSW Department of Aboriginal Affairs NSW Department of Community Services NSW Department of Community Services, Parenting Association NSW Department of Education and Training NSW Department of Health NSW Department of Juvenile Justice NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service NSW Office of Children & Young People NSW Office of the Children’s Guardian QLD Commission for Children Royal Australian College of Physicians, Paediatrics and Child Health Division YWCA - Young Women's Christian Association, National Office Mackay 19-May-03 Aboriginal and Islander Health Service, Mackay 152 YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO NO YES YES YES NO YES NO YES NO YES YES NO YES YES YES YES YES YES YES Mt Gambier 23-May-03 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Carers Respite Centre, Mackay Centacare, North Mackay Child and Family Health, Mackay Education Queensland-Mackay George St Neighbourhood Centre,South Mackay Good Beginnings, South Mackay Kookaburra Child Care Centre, Andergrove Lifeline, Mackay Mackay and District Australian South Sea Islander Assoc.
Mackay Child Care Centre Mackay Children's Support Program Mackay City Council Playgroup Association, Milton Pregnancy Help Mackay QLD Department of Families Regional Council for Social Development, Mackay Women's Health & Info Centre, Mackay Youth Information Referral Service, Mackay Burrandies Aboriginal Corporation Centrelink City of Mt Gambier, Corporate and Community Services District Court Divisions of General Practice Earlylinks Gladys Smith Early Learning Centre Grant Council Kingston District Council Mt Gambier Community Health Services Mt Gambier Hospital Murray Bridge Education Office, Aboriginal Education Naracoorte/Lucindale Council Options Robe District Council SA Department of Education and Children's Services SA Department of Further Education, Employment, Science and Technology, TAFE SA Department of Health, Rural Health SA Department of Human Services, Early Intervention, Child and Youth Health Services NO YES YES YES NO YES YES NO YES YES YES YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO NO NO YES YES NO NO YES NO NO NO NO YES YES YES NO NO 153 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 YES SA Department of Human Services, Community Development Worker SA Department of Human Services, Family and Youth Services YES SE Aboriginal Health Advisory Committee SE Aboriginal Health Partnership NO SE Regional Community Health Service, Aboriginal Health NO NO SE Regional Health Service NO Wattle Range Council YES Bunbury 26-May-03 Agencies for South West Accommodation Anglicare Family Visiting Service Bunbury Child Care Service Bunbury Primary Health Service Centrelink City of Bunbury Community House, Milligan House (Child Care) Disability Services Commission Divisions of General Practice Edith Cowan University, School of Professional Community Services Geographic Community Centre, Busselton (Family Day Care) Investing in our Youth South West Carers Respite Centre South West Women's Health and
 Information Centre South West Aboriginal Medical Service South West Mental Health Services South West Parenting Services South West Population Health Southern Aboriginal Corporation, Building Solid Families, Albany WA Department for Community Development WA Department of Education and Training WA Department of Health, Perth WA Department of Housing and Works WA Department of Indigenous Affairs, Regional Heritage WA Department of Justice, Community Justice Services YES NO NO NO YES YES YES YES NO NO YES NO NO NO YES NO YES YES NO YES NO NO NO NO NO 154 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Lismore 10-Jun-03 ABC Learning Centre Aboriginal Student Support and Parent Awareness Committee, Ballina Primary Ballina Early Intervention Service Ballina Youth & Children's Service Ballina-Byron Family Support Byron Bay Pre-School Inc Byron Shire Council Byron Shire Council, Care Inclusion Support Team Clarence Valley Family Day Care Coffs Harbour Neighbourhood Centre Community Connections Cooloon Children's Centre East Lismore Community Preschool Families First, NSW Cabinet Office Fox Street Preschool Gingerbread House Occasional Care Goonellabah Preschool Jarjum Preschool Jumbunna Community Pre-School & Early Intervention Centre Lismore Early Intervention Program Lismore Family Centre Lismore In Home Care and Lismore Family Day Care Northern Rivers Area Health Service Northern Rivers Divisions of General Practice NSW Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Ccare (DADHC) NSW Department of Community Services - Aboriginal Services NSW Department of Community Services - Children's Services Advisors Port Macquarie Neighbourhood Centre Outside School Hours Care Share Vision Aboriginal Corporation Southern Cross University Teddy Bears Childcare Centre Tintenbar Child Care and Learning Centre NO NO NO NO NO YES NO NO NO NO YES YES YES YES YES YES YES NO NO
 NO NO YES YES YES NO NO NO NO YES NO NO YES 155 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Tweed Early Intervention Program Tweed Shire Family Day Care Tweed Shire Vacation Care NO YES NO Location Melbourne Date 6-May-03 Organisation Invited Anglicare - St Lukes, Bendigo Australians Against Child Abuse Berry Street Centacare Catholic Family Services Child and Family Services Ballarat Child Welfare Association of Victoria City of Moonee Valley City of Wodonga Community Child Care Free Kindergarten Association, Multicutural Resource Centre Goulburn Valley Family Care Kildonan Child and Family Services, Uniting Church Kingston City Council MacKillop Family Services Municipal Association of Victoria Noah's Ark Toy Library for Children with Disabilities Playgrouping Victoria Quantum Support Services, Traralgon Relationships Australia Vic Royal Childrens Hospital, Centre for Community Child Health Scope (Vic) Ltd Southern Family Life Association The Salvation Army - Victorian Social Program Consultancy Unit Uniting Care Connections Uniting Care Victoria and Tasmania Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Association Victorian Aboriginal Education Association Inc. Victorian Cooperative of Children’s Services for Ethnic Groups, Victorian Parenting Centre Yooralla Sydney 8-May-03 Australian Health Promoting Schools Association Australian Primary Schools
 Association Barnardos Carers NSW 156 Attended NO YES YES NO NO YES YES NO YES NO NO NO YES YES YES NO YES NO NO NO YES YES NO YES YES YES YES NO YES YES NO YES NO NO Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Centacare Catholic Family Services Centrelink, NSW Child Support Unit Redfern Centrelink Child and Family Health Nurses Association NSW Inc Community Child Care Co-Operative Ltd
 Deaf Society of NSW Ethnic Communities Council of NSW Inc Families First, NSW Cabinet Office Family Action Centre (Newcastle) Family Support Services Association of NSW Good Beginnings, Australia Home Care Service of NSW, Aboriginal Services Kids Help Line Local Government Community Services Association Mission Australia NSW Council of Social Service (NCOSS) NSW Department of Community Services NSW Department of Corrective Services NSW Department of Education & Training NSW Family Day Care Assoc Inc NSW Pregnancy & Newborn Services Network NSW Premier's Department Parents & Citizens Federation of NSW Playgroup Assoc of NSW Relationships Australia (NSW) Salvation Army Save the Children Australia SDN (Sydney Day Nursery) Children's Services Inc.
Sole Parent's Union South Western Sydney Area Health Service, Community Paediatrics St Vincent de Paul The Australian Centre for Health Promotion The Benevolent Society of NSW Uniting Care Burnside University of Western Sydney, Childhood & Youth Policy Research Unit Wesley Mission Adelaide 27-May-03 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Aboriginal Health Council of SA Inc Aboriginal Resource and Management Services Unit 157 NO NO NO NO YES NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO YES YES YES NO NO NO NO NO NO YES NO YES NO NO NO NO YES NO YES YES YES NO YES YES NO NO Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Anglicare Australian Medical Association, Committee on Children's Health Centacare Catholic Family Services Centrelink Child and Youth Health (SA Department of Human Services) Child Support Agency Department of Immigration and Multiculturalism and Indigenous Affairs Diversity Directions (support for services to include DCALB children) Gowrie Training Centre (training for child care services) Inclusion SA (support for services to include children with special needs) Local Government Association Multicultural Communities Council Muna Paiendi Community Health Centre National Council of Single Mothers and their Children National Investment for the Early Years, (NIFTeY) SA Nunkuwarrin Yunti of SA Inc Parenting Network (Community Development approach to parents) Primary Health Care Research and Information Service, Dept of General Practice, Flinders University Public Health Association, Child Health Special Interest Group Remote and Isolated Children’s Exercise SA Attorney - General's Department, Crime Prevention Unit SA Department of Education and Children’s Services, Curriculum Early Years SA Department of Education and Children's Services, Aboriginal Education Unit SA Department of Education and Children's Services, Early Childhood Research SA Department of Human Services SA Department of Human
 Services, Aboriginal Services Division SA Department of Human Services, Disability Services, Social Justice and Country Division SA Department of Human Services, Equity and Diversity SA Department of Human Services, Families and Children SA Department of Human Services, Family and Youth Services SA Department of Human Services, Social Justice and Country SA Divisions of General Practice Inc South Australian Council of Social Services (SACOSS) University of Adelaide, Public Health Information Development Unit University of South Australia, de Lissa Institute of Early Childhood and Family Studies Wesley Uniting Mission Women's and Children's Hospital, Child and Mental Health Services YES NO YES YES YES NO YES YES YES YES NO NO NO YES YES NO NO NO NO YES NO NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES YES NO NO YES YES YES NO NO 158 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Perth 27-May-03 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Aboriginal Education and Training Council Australian Bureau of Statistics Australian Early Childhood Association (AECA), Meerilinga Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY), Carewest (community based long day care) Centrelink Child Support Agency Childcare Association of Western Australia (CAWA) Curtin University of Technology, Centre for Aboriginal Studies Derbarl Yerrigan Health Service Disabiltiy Services Commission Ethnic Communities Council Family Day Care Schemes of Western Australia General Practice Divisions of Western Australia Lotterywest National Alliance of Disability Resource and Training Agencies (NADRATA) SNAICC (Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care) TVW Telethon Institute for Child Health Research WA Department for Community Development WA Department for Planning and Infrastructure WA Department of Education and Training WA Department of Education and Training, Early Childhood
 WA Department of Health WA Department of Housing and Works WA Department of Indigenous Affairs WA Department of Justice WA Department of Local Government and Regional Development WA Department of the Premier and Cabinet, Social Policy WACOSS (Western Australian Council of Social Services) Western Australian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation Women's and Children's Health Services (Princess Margaret and King Edward Memorial Hospitals) Hobart 28-May-03 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Anglicare Tasmania Inc Australian Early Childhood Association, Tas Centacare Tasmania Centrelink 159 NO NO YES YES YES YES NO NO YES NO NO YES NO YES NO YES YES NO YES YES NO YES YES YES YES NO NO YES YES NO NO YES NO YES YES YES YES Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Child & Family Welfare Association of Tasmania Child Health Association, Tas Child Support Agency Council on the Ageing (Tasmania) Inc.
CREATE Foundation Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs Early Support for Parents Family Court Family Day Carers Association Family Support Services Association Good Beginnings Isolated Children and Parents Association Playgroup Association, Tasmania Relationships Australia Resource and Training Agency, Lady Gowrie Salvation Army Tasmania Tas Department of Education Tas Department of Health and Human Services TasCOSS (Tasmanian Council of Social Services) Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre Tasmanian Association of Children’s Services Tasmanian Association of Community Houses Tasmanian Community Fund Tasmanian General Practice Divisions Ltd Canberra 28-May-03 ACT Department of Disability, Housing and Community Services ACT Department of Education, Youth and Family Services, Child Abuse Prevention and Education ACT Department of Education, Youth and Family Services, Child Protection Unit ACT Department of Education, Youth and Family Services, Children's Plan ACT Department of Education, Youth and Family Services, Children's Services ACT Department of Education, Youth and Family Services, Children's Services Branch, Early Intervention Program ACT Department of Education, Youth and Family Services, Children's Services Council ACT Department of Education, Youth and Family Services, Children's, Youth and Family Services Policy ACT Department of Education, Youth and Family Services, Community Partnerships and Schools Development ACT Department of Education, Youth and Family Services, Family Services ACT Department of Education, Youth and Family Services, Preschool Services ACT Department of Education, Youth and Family Services, Schools as Communities ACT Department of Education, Youth and Family Services, Schools Operations 160 NO YES NO NO NO YES YES NO NO YES YES YES YES NO YES YES YES YES NO NO YES NO NO YES NO NO NO YES YES YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget
 Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 ACT Department of Health and Community Care, Mental Health ACT ACT Department of Justice and Community Safety ACT Department of Justice and Community Safety, Criminal Law and Justice Group ACT Divisions of General Practice ACT Health and Community Care, Child, Youth and Women's Program ACT Office for Women Anglicare, Canberra and Goulburn Association of Child Care Directors, ACT Barnardos Australia Belconnen Community Service Canberra Hospital, Women's and Children's Health Chief Minister John Stanhope's Office Child Health and Development Services Communities at Work Companion House Assisting Survivors of Trauma and Torture Department of Health and Ageing, Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, Child and Maternal Health and Communicable Diseases Section Good Beginnings Marymead Child and Family Centre Office of Child Care Office of Simon Corbell MLA Out of School Hours Care Association, ACT Southside Community Services University of Canberra, Teacher Education Winnunga Nimmitjyah Aboriginal Health Services Woden Community Services Inc YWCA of Canberra NO YES NO NO YES NO YES YES NO YES YES NO YES YES NO YES YES YES NO YES YES YES YES NO NO NO Location Date Organisation Invited Townsville (mixed) 15-May-03 Amaroo Child Care Centre Australian Red Cross, Townsville Billy Lids Kindy Busy Kids Captain Teddy's Kindy Centrelink, Townsville Child Support Agency, Townsville Creche & Kindergarten Assoc Department of Education,
 Science and Training, National Indigenous English Literacy and Numeracy Strategy Project Department of Health and Ageing, Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Education Qld 161 Attended YES YES YES NO YES YES NO YES NO YES YES Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Good Beginnings Indigenous Children's Services Unit Inner City Family Day Care James Cook University,
 Public Health and Tropical Medicine James Cook University, School of Education James Cook University, School of Nursing Sciences Kelso Kindy Kindergarten Headstart Kutjala Kindergarten Lifeline North Qld Magani Malu Kes Mental Illness Fellowship Migrant Resource Centre National Outside School Hours care Services Association (NOSHSA) Playgroup Assoc Qld Children's Activity Network Qld Department of Families, Child Protection Qld Department of Families, Community Support Services Qld Department of Health, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Health Qld Department of Health, Child Health Qld Department of Health, Tropical Public Health Qld Youth Service Relationships Australia, Family Support Worker Shalom Christian College Thuringowa City Council Townsville Aboriginal and Islander Health Service Townsville City Council, Child Care Development Townsville City Council, Community Services Townsville City Council, Family Worker Townsville TAFE, Teacher Early Childhood Unicare Child Care Centre Women's Info Link Young Families Support Service Brisbane 16-May-03 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Bahloo Women’s Shelter, Woolloongabba Brisbane City Council Creche & Kindergarten Association Qld Creche & Kindergarten Association Qld, Woodridge and Logan Family Day Care Project Cross Cultural Child Care Unit, Gold Coast (Supplementary Service, Child Care Services) 162 YES YES YES NO NO YES YES NO NO YES YES YES YES NO YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES NO NO YES YES YES YES NO YES NO YES YES YES NO YES YES YES Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Education Queensland - Indigenous Education Consultative Body Family Day Care Association of Queensland Kalwun Development Corporation, Nerang (Aboriginal and Islander Child Care Agency) Kin Kin Aboriginal Playgroup, Dunwich, Stradbroke Island Koolyangarra Child Care Centre,
 Fairfield Gardens Kummara Association, West End Minjerribah Moorgumpin Elders-in-Council, Dunwich, Stradbroke Island Murri & Torres Strait Islander Network Inc, Woodridge/Logan Playgroup Association of Queensland QLD Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy QLD Department of Education, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education QLD Department of Families The Aboriginal & Islander Community Health Service, Woolloongabba Wandarrah Neighbourhood Centre, Inala Wandarrah Preschool Community Centre Association, Inala Yelangi Pre-School Association, Indooroopilly Yulu Barri-Ba Medical Centre, Dunwich, Stradbroke Island Darwin (mixed) 19-May-03 Aboriginal & Islander Alcohol Awareness and Family Recovery Incorporated Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC), Policy Unit Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory ACROD – National Industry Assoc for Disability Services Australian Early Childhood Association (NT Branch) Inc Australian Hearing (NT) Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, Batchelor Carpenteria Disability Services Charles Darwin University, Faculty of Education, Health & Science Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal and Tropical Health (Menzies School of Health Research) Danila Dilba Medical Service Darwin City Council, Community Services Karu Aboriginal Child Care Agency Menzies School of Health Research Multicultural Council of the NT, Children’s Services Northern Territory Council Of Social Service (NTCOSS) NT Department of Health and Community Services NT Department of Employment, Education and Training, Early Childhood Team NT Department of Employment, Education and Training, School Services Division NT Department of Health and Community Services, Child Health, Primary Health and Coordinated Care NT Department of Health and Community Services, Family & Children’s Services Policy NT Department of Health and Community Services, Social and Emotional Wellness (SOEWELL) Branch 163 YES YES NO
 YES YES YES NO NO YES NO NO NO NO NO NO YES YES YES NO NO NO NO NO YES YES YES YES YES YES YES NO NO NO YES YES YES YES YES NO Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 NT Department of Justice, Policy and Community Liaison, Office of Crime Prevention NT Department of the Chief Minister, Social Policy Unit NT Gowrie Palmerston City Council Playgroups Association of the NT Royal Darwin Hospital, Community Paediatrician Royal Darwin Hospital, Paediatrics The Fred Hollows Foundation Tiwi Health Board- Tiwi for Life Program (Tiwi Islands) Tiwi Islands Community Government Council, Bathurst Island Sydney 20-May-03 Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Early Childhood Sector Advisory Group Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Aboriginal Education Program, University of NSW Aboriginal Statewide Foster Care Support Service Department of Health and Ageing, Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Gerangah Wandarrah Multifunctional Aboriginal Children's Services KARI Aboriginal Resources Incorporated Marungbai, Taree Miimali Mates, Emerton Murrawina Mt Druitt Multifunctional Aboriginal Children's Services NSW Aboriginal Education Consultative Group Inc NSW Department of Community Services Oorangah Wandarrah MACS, Campbelltown Alice Springs (mixed) 23-May-03 Alice Springs Hospital, Alice Springs Remote Health Batchelor Institute of
 Indigenous Tertiary Education, Batchelor Central Australian Stolen Generation Children's Services Support Program (Cent Aust) Inc Disability Advocacy Service Good Beginnings (also NT Crime Prevention Committee – Central Australia Region) Holy Oake Vacation Program Ikuntji Community Child Care Centre (Haasts Bluff - remote area) Ikuntji Community Youth Program (Haasts Bluff - remote area) Kurdu Kurdu Kurlangu Walpiri Child Care Centre (Yuendumu Community Council - remote area) Mount Liebig Long Day Care (LDC)
 (remote area) Multicultural Community Services of Central Australia NT Crime Prevention Committee – Central Australia Region, Secretariat 164 YES YES YES NO YES YES YES YES NO NO YES YES NO NO YES YES YES YES NO YES NO NO NO NO YES YES NO YES NO NO YES YES NO YES YES YES Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 NT Department of Employment, Education and Training NT Department of Family and Children's Services NT Department of Health and Community Services, Children's Services NT Police, NT Department of Police, Fire and Emergency Services (also NT Crime Prevention Committee – Central Australia Region) Our Lady of Sacred Heart College, Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) Program Tangentyere Council Inc (Outside School Hours Care) Tangentyere Council Inc (Outside School Hours Care), Families in Crisis Tapatjatjaka Community Govt Innovative Long Day Care (Titjikala - remote area) Titjikala Community, Child Care Worker Waltja Tjauangku Palyapayi, Aboriginal Child Rearing Strategy, (Kintore and Mt Liebig - remote areas) Waltja Tjutangku Palyapayi Dubbo 26-May-03 Allira Multi Purpose Childcare Service, Dubbo Brewarrina Resource Van, Mobile Children's Service Centacare, Bourke Centrelink, Dubbo Regional Office Connect Five Cornerstone Christian Independent Community School Delroy High School, West Dubbo Dubbo Christian School, Aboriginal Education
 Dubbo Women's Housing Project Families First, NSW Cabinet Office Family Support Service, Bourke Goolbri Mens Group, Bourke Gordon Centre Macquarie Area Health Service, Aboriginal Health Mid West Area Health Service, Aboriginal Health, Bathurst, Mobile Children’s Services NSW Department Of Community Services, Bourke NSW Department of Education, Aboriginal Education for the Western Region Project Enrichment of Childhood, Preschool, Bourke Reconnect, Dubbo Uniting Care Burnside, Orana Region District Office
 Yoorana Gunya Family Violence Centre, Forbes 165 NO YES YES YES YES YES NO YES YES YES YES NO YES YES YES YES YES YES NO YES YES NO YES YES YES NO YES YES NO YES YES YES YES Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.2 Youth and Student Support Question No: 47 Topic: Youth and Student Assistance – Restructured Reviews.
Hansard Page: CA 308 Senator Bishop asked: Of those 16,800 and 33,900 you did between October 2001 and the current time, how many resulted in downward reviews?

Answer: System changes mean reliable management information on the number of downward variations is not currently available.
166 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.2 Topic: JPET Review Hansard Page: CA 373 Question No: 48 Senator Faulkner asked: How many media outlets were contacted by Brian Quinlan and which media outlets were they?
Answer: Mr Quinlan recalls speaking to journalists from the following media outlets: • AAP • ABC Radio • The Daily Telegraph • The Adelaide Advertiser • The Herald Sun 167 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.2 Youth and Student Support Question No: 49 Topic: Student Financial Supplement Scheme Hansard Page: CA378 Senator Bishop asked: Please provide figures on take-up numbers by payment type and amount lent by year since the inception of the scheme.
Answer: The table below provides the number of loan acceptances since the Scheme’s inception in 1993 and the total loan acceptance amount across all payment types.
Year AUSTU DY 41,507 1993 51,861 1994 53,291 1995 56,474 1996 1997 53,252 1998 14,376 1999 N/A 2000 N/A 2001 N/A 2002 N/A Notes Austud y Paymen t N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 15,989 15,231 13,161 10,713 9,074 YA PES ABSTUD Y ABSTUD Y PES N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 21,651 N/A 25,455 23,030 17,216 15,300 9,909 10,238 7,557 9,057 2,865 4,849 6,461 8,142 7,353 8,586 9,529 6,243 4,898 4,546 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 2,765 1,963 1,852 Total acceptance amount $132,188,034 $230,069,133 $284,537,961 $314,425,957 $293,583,431 $292,068,551 $290,678,618 $261,211,152 $206,297,705 $184,607,708 1.
N/A – Not applicable.

2.

The Department of Family and Community Services administers Austudy Payment, Youth Allowance (YA) and Pensioner Education Supplement (PES).

3.

The Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) administers ABSTUDY and ABSTUDY PES and administered AUSTUDY until 1998.

4.

AUSTUDY was replaced with Austudy Payment in 1998.

5.

Youth Allowance was introduced in July 1998.


168 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.2 Youth and Student Support Question No: 50 Topic: Student Financial Supplement Scheme Hansard Page: CA379 Senator Bishop asked: How much existing debt is there?
Answer: At 31 May 2003 the receivable balances for the Student Financial Supplement Scheme loans for the FaCS portfolio are: Total loans of $1,002,340, 858 are with the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) awaiting collection through the taxation system; and Loans totaling $1,019,931,778 are with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, representing loans that have not reached the end of their 5-year contract period.
169 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.2 Youth and Student Support Question No: 51 Topic: Student Financial Supplement Scheme Hansard Page: CA379 Senator Bishop asked: Please provide details of the arrangements with the Commonwealth Bank, including costs associated with the administration of the scheme.
Answer: In 1993, the Commonwealth, represented by the Department of Education, Employment and Training (DEET) entered into a contract with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) for the provision of services for the Student Financial Supplement Scheme (the Scheme).

In 1998, under the administrative arrangements orders AUSTUDY and the Scheme were transferred to then Department of Social Security, now the Department of Family and Community Services (FaCS).
Currently eligible Austudy, Youth Allowance and Pensioner Eduction Supplement recipients may participate in the Scheme.

DEET retained responsibility for the administration of ABSTUDY, including ABSTUDY loans, and the Department of Education, Science and Training also has a contract with the CBA.

Centrelink advises students whether they are eligible for a loan.

If a student takes up the voluntary offer of a loan they apply to the CBA and enter into a contract for the payment of the supplement.
On 1 June in the fifth year after the Supplement loan has been paid the outstanding balance of the loan is bought back by the Commonwealth and the loan is transferred to the Australian Taxation Office for collection through the taxation system.

Compulsory repayment begins once a person’s income in a tax year reaches a minimum threshold, for the 2002-2003 income year this is $34 494.

The cost to FaCS of administering the Scheme in the 2002-2003 year was $300 000.
For the 2002 – 2003 year Centrelink costs for administering the Scheme was $2.5 million and the ATO costs for administering the Scheme was $3.4 million.

A decline in administration costs is expected from 1 January 2004 once the Scheme is closed to new loans.
170 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.2 Youth and Student Support Question No: 52 Topic: Student Financial Supplement Scheme Hansard Page: CA380 Senator Bishop asked: (a) Please provide percentages of payment types for those we would have expected to take it up.
(b) What is the average amount of loan per person each year since inception, and what would have been projected over the forward estimates period?

Answer: 52 (a) The overall take-up rate of the Student Financial Supplement Scheme (the Scheme) has decreased by 28 per cent over the past three years.

It is not expected that the proportion of total loans taken up by payment type would change substantially if the Scheme continued.
The table below shows the average proportion of loans accepted by payment type for the FaCS portfolio for the years 1999 - 2002.

Austudy 29% YA 49% PES 23% Average loan amount $2,890.23 $3,535.45 $4,181.56 $4,424.13 $4,423.38 $4,425.74 $4,267.82 $4,162.45 $4,212.13 $3,973.59 52 (b) The following table provides the average loan amount based on all loans issued under the Scheme and projection for the years 2003 - 2006.
Loan Year 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 Projection (see note 3) 2003 2004 2005 2006 $3,860.55 $3,747.52 $3,634.48 $3,521.44 Notes 1.

Data for loan years 1993-5 is sourced from the funds transferred to the Commonwealth Bank at their respective End of Contract Buyback and does not include: Early Buybacks, or repayments which may have occurred during their contract period.

2.

Data for Loan years 1996-2002 is sourced from Centrelink Automated Systems Reports.

3.
3.

The projection is based on the average change in loan acceptance amount from 1999 – 2002 inclusive.

As loans are issued on a calendar year basis the average loan amount for 2003 is not available.

The projection does not take into account of the effect of reducing rates of allowance available for trade-in due to changes in earnings or changes in the rates of payments.
171 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.2 Youth and Student Support Question No: 53 Topic: Commonwealth Scholarships and Youth Allowance Hansard Page: CA380 Senator Bishop asked: Do the Commonwealth education costs scholarships and the Commonwealth accommodation scholarships count as income for recipients in determining the rate of youth allowances?
Answer: Yes.
172 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.2 Question No: 161 Topic: Youth Allowance Full-time students Written question on notice Senator Bishop asked: 1) What is the latest available number of Youth Allowance (Full-time students) aged: i) 21-22 ii) 22-23 iii) 23-24 iv) 24-25 v) over 25 2) i) For each of the above age categories above how many are determined to be independent and are not subject to the parental means test?
ii) How many are determined as dependents and subject to the parental means test?

3) For each age category above how many of those who are subject to a parental means test received a reduced rate of Youth Allowance because of their parent's means?

4) For each age category above, and those who receive a reduced rate of youth allowance because of their parents means what is their average fortnightly payment rate?
5) For each age category above, and those who are determined to be independent what is their average fortnightly payment rate?

6) For each age category above what was the average duration of fortnightly Youth Allowance (student) receipt during the period 1 July 2001 - 30 June 2002?

7) How many Youth Allowance (students) have been determined as independent in each year since the introduction of Youth Allowance?
8) (i) What is the average annual parental means of Youth Allowance (students) who are determined as dependents?

(ii) What is the average annual parental means of Youth Allowance (students) who are determined as dependents and receive a reduced rate due to their parent's means?

Answer: The responses below concern customers aged: i) ii) iii) iv) v) or more as at 13 June 2003.
173 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 1): i) ii) iii) iv) v) 31,256 21,796 13,850 9,284 7,658 2) i) i) ii) iii) iv) v) 20,420 16,402 11,290 8,032 7,658 ii) i) ii) iii) iv) v) 10,836 5,394 2,560 1,252 0 3) 4) 5) i) ii) iii) iv) v) 2,380 1,042 437 206 0 i) ii) iii) iv) v) Not applicable $183.26 $187.50 $194.87 $195.56 i) ii) iii) iv) v) $276.85 $282.64 $290.98 $299.57 $306.93 174 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 6) The average duration of YA receipt for customers in any of the above age groups at any point of time in a year is over 1 year.
The average YA duration for those who were current as at 13 June 2003 was: i) ii) iii) iv) v) 100 weeks 91 weeks 83 weeks 74 weeks 109 weeks 7) The following table shows the breakdown of YA (full-time students) aged 21 and over who are independent from 1999 to 2002.

All figures are as at 30 June.


Year 1999 2000 2001 2002 Independent 40,103 47,125 53,999 60,525 8) In general, parental means details are not available if the person has been continuously exempt from the parental means since the commencement of the latest YA annual parental means data collection.

As such, the average amounts shown below for the overall dependent YA (FTS) population of any age (PMT reduced or not) were calculated only in respect of those with known current parental means.
(i) $32,150 (ii) $36,342 175 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.2 Question No: 162 Topic: Youth Allowance non Full-time Students Written question on notice Senator Bishop asked: 1) What is the latest available number of Youth Allowance recipients (non Full-time Student) aged: i) 18-19 ii) 19-20 iii) 20-21 2) (i) For each of the above age categories above how many are determined to be independent and are not subject to the parental means test?
(ii) How many are determined as dependents and subject to the parental means test?

3) For each age category above how many of those who are subject to a parental means test received a reduced rate of Youth Allowance because of their parent's means?

4) For each age category above, and those who recieve a reduced rate of youth allowance because of their parents means what is their average fortnightly payment rate?
5) For each age category above, and those who are determined to be independent what is their average fortnightly payment rate?

6) For each age category above what was the average duration of fortnightly Youth Allowance (non-full time student) receipt during the period 1 July 2001 - 30 June 2002?

7) How many Youth Allowance recipients (non- full time student) have been determined as independent in each year since the introduction of Youth Allowance?
8) (i) What is the average annual parental means of Youth Allowance recipients (non-full time student) who are determined as dependents?

(ii) What is the average annual parental means of Youth Allowance recipients (non full-time student) who are determined as dependents and receive a reduced rate due to their parent's means?
176 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Answer: The responses below concern customers aged: vi) vii) viii) 18 19 20 as at 13 June 2003 1): i) 22,555 ii) 23,091 iii) 22,534 2) (i) i) 9,295 ii) 12,353 iii) 14,831 i) 13,260 ii) 10,738 iii) 7,703 i) 1,648 ii) 1,266 iii) 803 (ii) 3) 4) 5) i) ii) iii) $142.27 $145.09 $154.11 i) ii) iii) $296.65 $292.76 $291.66 6) The average duration of YA receipt for customers in any of the above age groups at any point of time in a year is over 1 year.
The average YA duration for those who were current as at 13 June 2003 was: i) ii) iii) 66 weeks 73 weeks 75 weeks 177 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 7) The following table shows the number of YA(non-full-time students) aged 18 to 20 who are independent from 1999 to 2002.

All figures are as at 30 June.


Year 1999 2000 2001 2002 Independent 41,101 41,014 43,069 39,406 8) In general, parental means details are not available if the person has been continuously exempt from the parental means test since commencement of the latest YA annual parental means data collection.

As such, the average amounts shown below for the overall dependent YA (non-FTS) population of any age (PMT reduced or not) were calculated only in respect of those with known current parental means.
(i) $31,255 (ii) $34,952 178 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.3 Child Support Question No: 54 Topic: Numbers of cases in Debt Management Services Hansard Page: CA 382 Senator Moore asked: Debt Management Services Stream – How many cases are currently being handled at this level across the country by state?
Answer: The Child Support Agency has five geographic administrative regions.
The Debt Management Services caseload in these regions at 19 June 2003 is: ACT/NSW: 13,157 6,540 QLD: 4,657 VIC/TAS: 2,589 SA/NT: 2,083 WA: 29,026 Total: 179 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.3 Child Support Question No: 55 Topic: Amounts recovered in Debt Management Services since 1998 Hansard Page: CA 383 Senator Moore asked: What is the total amount recovered by these teams in each year since the implementation of the stream segmentation in 1998 until now?
Answer: The core business of the Child Support Agency is to collect child support, and this is done across the whole of the Agency.

Specialised debt collection activities are undertaken in Debt Management Services, who will manage a client until a satisfactory outcome is obtained.

At that time, management of that client is returned to mainstream business activity.

As such, it is not possible to capture the total amount recovered by those teams.
The Child Support Agency is planning to improve the reporting framework to capture this type of data in the future.

As an indication, the total amount collected by CSA and the approximate amount collected per CSA Client Service Officer was: Year 1997 – 1998 1998 – 1999 1999 – 2000 2000 – 2001 2001 – 2002 Total CSA collections Approx.
amount per operative $526 million $571 million $596 million $619 million $636 million $236,000 $253,000 $246,000 $258,000 $265,000 180 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.3 Child Support Question No: 55A Topic: Staffing Levels in CSA Hansard Page: CA 335 Senator Moore asked: Could you provide figures on staffing levels each year for the CSA from 1995 through to the current budget, and your expected staffing levels for the next three years.
Answer: Approximate staffing numbers are provided due to differences in reporting guidelines over the period eg in some years average numbers were reported and in other years it was at the end of the year.

Year 1995 - 1996 1996 - 1997 1997 - 1998 1998 - 1999 1999 - 2000 2000 - 2001 2001 - 2002 Approx.

No.

2250 2280 2430 2460 2620 2600 2600 The projected staffing levels for the next three years are average estimated Full Time Equivalent (FTE) staff numbers for the year.
Year 2002 - 2003 2003 - 2004 2004 - 2005 2005 - 2006 Average FTE 2700 2800 2850 2900 181 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.4 Question No: 56 Topic: Child Care Benefit expenditure Hansard Page: CA#391 Senator Moore asked: (a) Please provide the details of child-care benefit expenditure under each of the percentage levels set by the government, and how many families and children are assisted at each of these levels.
(b) With regard to the expenditure rates, you have given us the percentages so under each of the headings we now want the expenditure.

(c) Please provide the flat numbers of families and children who are receiving payment, under each of those headings.

(d) Can you also advise the proportion of childcare benefit that goes to each of the different types of care—family day care, long day care, outside school aged care?
Answer: (a) The number and percentage of families and children, under each CCB rate, for the 2001-2002 financial year is as follows: Customers Children No.

359,035 117,671 452,133 938,049 % 38.3 12.5 48.2 100.0 % No.

38.4 246,099 12.6 80,744 305,437 47.7 640,184 100.0 Rate Max Min Partial Total (1) (1) Includes expenditure where a customer's rate type could not be determined.

Excludes CCB received as a lump sum payment.


Note: The information in this table is based on pre-reconciliation amounts paid to families during the financial year.

These figures do not take into account Centrelink CCB advance/acquittals to services.

Note: Weighted data.

Source: Centrelink administrative data as at 01-11-02.
182 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 (b) The amount and percentage of child care benefit expenditure under each CCB rate for the 2001-2002 financial year is as follows: CCB ($) 665,340,335 47,279,750 553,190,934 1,269,119,717 % Rate Max 52.4 Min 3.7 Partial 43.6 Total (1) 100.0 (1) Includes expenditure where a customer's rate type could not be determined.
Excludes CCB received as a lump sum payment.

Note: The information in this table is based on pre-reconciliation amounts paid to families during the financial year.

These figures do not take into account Centrelink CCB advance/acquittal processes to services.

Note: Weighted data.

Source: Centrelink administrative data as at 01-11-02.

(c) This question is answered in Part A.


(d) The amount and percentage of child care benefit for each of the different types of care for the 2001-2002 financial year is as follows: CCB ($) Percentage 4.1 0.8 18.6 72.8 0.5 3.3 100.0 52,116,747 10,049,416 235,756,647 923,938,506 5,961,836 41,296,565 1,269,119,717 Service type ASC BSC FDC LDC OCC VAC TOTAL Note: Excludes CCB received as a lump sum payment and CCB paid for informal care.
Note: The information in this table is based on pre-reconciliation amounts paid to families during the financial year.

These figures do not take into account Centrelink CCB advance/acquittal processes to services.

ASC: After school hours care, BSC: Before school care, FDC: Family day care, LDC: Long day care, OCC: Occasional care, VAC: Vacation care.

In-home-care expenditure is included in the Family Day Care amount.

Note: Weighted data.

Source: Centrelink administrative data as at 01-11-02.
183 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.4 Question No: 57 Topic: Child Care Benefit for families using Family Day Care and Long Day Care Hansard Page: CA#391 Senator Moore asked: Can you advise of the level of child-care benefit entitlements to parents and children using FDC and LDC—family day care and long day care?
That is, do lower income groups or higher income groups dominate in particular service types?

Answer: The following table shows the numbers and proportion of families at each of the levels (rate types) of Child Care Benefit for Family Day Care and Long Day Care for the 2001- 2002 financial year.

Rate Type Broken Service Type Maximum % No.

33.4 38,103 35.0 154,746 Minimum % No.

10.3 11,769 12.6 55,851 % Family day care 52.3 Long day care 48.5 Note: Family day care numbers include in-home-care.
Note: Weighted data.

Source: Centrelink administrative data as at 01-11-02.

No.

59,576 214,268 Lump sum % No.

3.6 4,138 3.4 14,838 Undetermined % No.

0.3 0.6 337 2,487 Total No.


113,923 442,190 184 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.4 Question No: 58 Topic: Child Care Benefit expenditure for children under 2 years old Hansard Page: CA#392 Senator Moore asked: How much of the child-care benefit goes to children between birth and the age of two.
Answer: The amount of child care benefit expenditure under each CCB rate for children between birth and the age of two for the 2001-2002 financial year is as follows: CCB ($) Rate Maximum 92,478,743 Minimum 12,486,985 Partial Total (1) 111,219,248 216,526,181 (1) Includes CCB where a customer's rate type could not be determined.

Excludes CCB received as a lump sum payment.

Note: The information in this table is based on pre-reconciliation amounts paid to families during the financial year.
These figures do not take into account Centrelink CCB advance/acquittals to services.

Note: Information is based on CCB paid to families during a quarter for children who were under 2 years of age at any time during the quarter.

Note: Weighted data.

Source: Centrelink administrative data as at 01-11-02.
185 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.4 Child Care Support Question No: 60 Topic: Website usage Hansard Page: CA 396 Senator Moore asked: Is there any data kept about people’s access to documents kept on the website, whether there is a preferred option for people to get them in printed form, or to ring and get the information, or whether people are genuinely accessing kind of data on the web site?
Answer: 1.

Data is maintained on general access to all content on FaCS Internet sites.

2.

The only information available on people’s preferred method of accessing information would be from market research, but there is no specific information from such research to date.

3.

From the data available, it is possible to identify what pages people have visited and what documents they have downloaded.
186 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.4 Question No: 61 Topic: Child care services – various requests for information Hansard Page: CA#397 Senator Moore asked: Can you provide the most recently available data and information in the following areas, broken down by state and territory for all Commonwealth funded child-care related activities?
(a) numbers of approved and registered services by service type; (b) breakdown by service type by ownership community based private multi-owned private, as we said earlier; (c) places allocated by service type; (d) utilisation rates by service type; (e) children assisted by service type; (f) families assisted by service type (g) number of staff and carers by service type; (h) number of openings and closures by services; (i) number of openings and closures by service type by electorate and/or by state; (j) number of places and services run by corporate child-care providers there are listed on the Stock Exchange.
(k) what amount of the child care budget is paid to corporate child care providers that are listed on the Stock Exchange?
Answer: TAS NSW SA WA NT ACT 613 463 116 1,661 12 1 46 495 a) Approved and registered services by service type and State/Territory, June 2001 Service type VIC QLD ASC1 73 BSC1 35 FDC 9 LDC 80 MAC2 0 MULTI2 0 OCC 4 VAC 38 TOTAL3 239 RCP4 608 ASC: After school hours care, BSC: Before school care, FDC: Family day care, LDC: Long day care, MAC: Multifunctional aboriginal children's service, Multi: Multifunctional children's service, OCC: Occasional care, VAC: Vacation care, RCP: Registered care provider.
AUST 2,298 1,478 408 4,073 37 14 111 1,631 10,050 17,988 187 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 (1) Adding ASC and BSC services will under -count OSHC services due to the current Centrelink process of combining co-located and co-managed ASC and BSC services into single administrative ASC services.
The combining of services also affects the overall total of services.

(2) MAC and Multi figures are estimates from December 2000.

(3) Includes approved services only as registered care providers are not counted as approved child care services.

(4) There were 33 registered care providers whose home State/Territory could not be determined.

b) Breakdown by service type by ownership (i.e.

community based, private, multi-owned private) as at April 2003.

Service type CLD PLD (1 or 2 services) No.
of owners 908 2132 Mulit-PLD (3 or more) 74 Source: Centrelink Administrative Data, April 2003 Note: CLD: Community Based Long Day Care (not for profit): PLD: Private Long Day Care (for profit) Notre : Multi-PLD is defined as a sponsor recorded as owning 3 or more services on COS. NSW NT ACT VIC QLD 153 1,539 904 4,949 c) Places allocated by service type and State/Territory, June 2001 Service type SA WA 6,640 ASC 26,653 28,681 25,110 10,286 2,073 BSC 4,850 14,571 13,750 9,797 4,772 FDC 5,323 22,351 16,747 12,547 9,904 13,896 64,271 42,156 55,297 LDC MAC1 151 120 MULTI1 126 134 376 OCC 516 VAC 6,636 20,739 15,001 22,965 150,286 117,327 126,486 38,676 34,670 TOTAL RCP2 na ASC: After school hours care, BSC: Before school care, FDC: Family day care, LDC: Long day care, MAC: Multifunctional aboriginal children's service, Multi: Multifunctional children's service, OCC: Occasional care, VAC: Vacation care.
(1) MAC and Multi figures are estimates from December 2000.

(2) Approved places are not allocated to registered care providers.
AUST 1,837 3,473 104,652 47,073 70,840 1,909 4,021 193,809 1,168 0 625 0 3,074 102 1,750 1,712 78,786 6,814 15,796 500,027 TAS 1,972 340 3,247 2,355 27 0 79 1,952 9,972 125 74 83 8,031 460 55 1,186 115 136 10 170 100 722 na na na na na na na na 188 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 (d) Utilisation rate by service type (%) and State/Territory SA NSW VIC Service type LDC 82.2 FDC 87.0 LDC : Long Day Care: FDC: Family Day care Source: Census of Child Care Services 2002 Note: Utilisation is only available for LDC and FDC services.
QLD 88.4 87.5 84.2 77.5 89.6 71.9 90.1 72.0 WA TAS 77.9 75.4 NT 79.3 59.9 ACT AUST 87.8 77.8 85.3 47.5 (e) Children using approved care services by service type and State/Territory during the September 2002 quarter SA NT WA VIC TAS ACT QLD NSW AUST (2) 38,683 14,176 39,934 135,765 4,931 33,466 42,695 43,980 8,851 14,124 25,081 30,264 82,501 122,799 1,977 3,800 33,745 27,690 226,306 174,361 196,629 Service type ASC BSC FDC LDC OCC VAC TOTAL (1) (1) Total count does not represent an aggregation of service type data as children may have used more than one type of service during the quarter.
(2) Australian total does not represent an aggregation of State and Territory data as children may have used services in more than one State/Territory during the quarter.

ASC: After school hours care, BSC: Before school care, FDC: Family day care (including in-home-care), LDC: Long day care, OCC: Occasional care, VAC: Vacation care.

Note: Weighted data.
Source : Centrelink administrative data as at 03-01- Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 (f) Families using approved care services by service type and State/Territory during the September 2002 quarter.
SA NT WA VIC TAS ACT QLD NSW AUST (2) 28,534 10,794 28,392 114,052 4,053 23,162 28,994 31,069 6,367 10,321 16,714 19,583 91,641 66,165 1,627 2,990 22,195 18,598 169,164 120,710 133,590 Service type ASC BSC FDC LDC OCC VAC TOTAL (1) (1) Total count does not represent an aggregation of service type data as families may have used more than one type of service during the quarter.
(2) Australian total does not represent an aggregation of State and Territory data as some families used services in more than one State/Territory during the quarter.

ASC: After school hours care, BSC: Before school care, FDC: Family day care (including in-home-care), LDC: Long day care, OCC: Occasional care, VAC: Vacation care.

Note: Weighted data.
Source : Centrelink administrative data as at 03-01- (g) Staff and carers by service type and State/Territory Staffing for service NSW VIC QLD 9400 309 2959 38 53 2775 2000 225 36 58 28 7 17888 14020 601 3848 9 77 2822 2767 377 12 158 29 22 24742 LDC FDC-STAFF FDC-CARERS IHC-STAFF IHC-CARERS OSHC VAC OCC MULTI MAC MOB APG TOTAL LDC: Long Day Care, FDC: Family Day Care, IHC: In Home Care , OSHC: Outside School Hours Care, VAC: Vacation care, OCC: Occasional care Multi: Multifunctional children's service, , MAC: Multifunctional aboriginal children's service, MOB: Mobile toy libraries, APG: Aboriginal Play Groups Source: 2002 Census of Child Care (unweighted) Note: Child Care Census staff and carer data cannot be reliably split into BSC and ASC.
Note: FDC and IHC staff counts administrative staff.

FDC and IHC carers count actual carers only.
TAS NT ACT AUST 40787 1693 12525 126 389 10457 9950 939 143 373 126 185 77693 SA WA Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 h) The answer to this question is provided in the response to question 62. i) The answer to this question is provided in the response to question 62.
(j) Number of places and services run by corporate child-care providers that are listed on the Stock Exchange.

The number of approved places in services run by corporate child-care providers listed on the stock exchange in April 2003 was 17,429.

The number of services was 245.

This information is based on recorded sponsorship information from the Child Care Operator System.

(k) What amount of the child care budget is paid to corporate child care providers that are listed on the Stock Exchange?
For corporate child care providers that are listed on the stock exchange in April 2003 the total amount of CCB expenditure for the previous financial year (2001 – 2002) was $ 31,349,000.

This figure is based on the amount of Child Care Benefit claimed by families using services that are sponsored by these organisations during the financial year regardless of the date that the corporate child care service was listed on the stock exchange.
Information on expenditure based on the date of stock exchange listing is not available.
191 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.4 Question No: 62 Topic: Openings and closures of child care services Hansard Page: CA#397 Senator Moore asked: The opening and closures of all Commonwealth funded child care centres by service type by electorate or by state, is that something that is available by federal electorate?
Can you break that down into local government area?

Answer: The tables below show openings and closures of Commonwealth funded child care centres by service type, electorate and local government area for the period 1 July 2002 – 1 April 2003.

Note that current openings and closures information does not take into account transfers of service ownership.
When the ownership of a service is transferred Centrelink is required to close the service on the Child Care Operator system and to create a new service record to affect the transfer.

This means that any transfer of ownership will be recorded as both an opening and a closure.

Additionally, Centrelink is combining co-located and co-managed After School Care and Before School Care services into single administrated outside school hours care services.
This means that most Before School Care service closures will in fact be a result of this process and should not be regarded as closures.

Therefore the information in the following table is not comparable with previous information provided on openings and closures.

Openings and closures by Commonwealth electoral division and service type (July 2002- April 2003).
Service Electoral Division Adelaide Aston Ballarat Banks Barker Barton Bass Batman Bendigo Bennelong ASC BSC FDC LDC OCC VAC Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed 192 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Service ASC BSC FDC LDC OCC VAC Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed 10 193 0
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 Electoral Division Berowra Blair Blaxland Bonython Boothby Bowman Braddon Bradfield Brand Brisbane Bruce Burke Calare Calwell Canberra Canning Capricornia Casey Charlton Chifley Chisholm Cook Corio Cowan Cowper Cunningham Curtin Dawson Deakin Denison Dickson Dobell Dunkley Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Service ASC BSC FDC LDC OCC VAC Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened
 Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed 13 14 11 194 Electoral Division Eden-Monaro Fadden Fairfax Farrer Fisher Flinders Forde Forrest Fowler Franklin Fraser Fremantle Gellibrand Gilmore Gippsland Goldstein Grayndler Greenway Grey Griffith Groom Gwydir Hasluck Herbert Higgins Hindmarsh Hinkler Holt Hotham Hughes Hume Hunter Indi Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Service ASC BSC FDC LDC OCC VAC Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed 1
0
Electoral Division Isaacs Jagajaga Kalgoorlie Kennedy Kingsford Smith Kingston Kooyong La Trobe Lalor Leichhardt Lilley Lindsay Lingiari Longman Lowe Lyne Lyons Macarthur Mackellar Macquarie Makin Mallee Maranoa Maribyrnong Mayo Mcewen Mcmillan Mcpherson Melbourne Melbourne Ports Menzies Mitchell Moncrieff Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Service ASC BSC FDC LDC OCC VAC Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed 10 11 10 196 0
Electoral Division Moore Moreton Murray New England Newcastle North Sydney O'Connor Oxley Page Parkes Parramatta Paterson Pearce Perth Petrie Port Adelaide Prospect Rankin Reid Richmond Riverina Robertson Ryan Scullin Shortland Solomon Stirling Sturt Swan Sydney Tangney Throsby Wakefield Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND
 COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Service Electoral Division Wannon Warringah Watson Wentworth Werriwa Wide Bay Wills ASC BSC FDC LDC OCC VAC Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed ASC: After school hours care, BSC: Before school care, FDC: Family day care, LDC: Long day care, OCC: Occasional care, VAC: Vacation care.
Openings and closures by Local Government Area (LGA) and service type (July 2002- April 2003).

Service Local Govt.
Area ASC BSC FDC LDC OCC VAC Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Adelaide (C) Adelaide Hills (DC) Albury (C) Alice Springs (T) Ararat (RC) Armadale (C) Ashfield (A) Atherton (S) Auburn (A) Ballarat (C) Ballina (A) Balonne (S) Bankstown (C) Banyule (C) Barossa (DC) Bass Coast (S) Bassendean (T) Baulkham Hills (A 197 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Service Local Govt.
Area ASC BSC FDC LDC OCC VAC Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Baw Baw (S) Bayside (C) Bayswater (C) Beaudesert (S) Bellingen (A) Blacktown (C) Bland (A) Blue Mountains (C) Boroondara (C) Botany Bay (C) Break O'Day (M) Brimbank (C) Brisbane (C) Bundaberg (C) Burnett (S) Burnside (C) Burwood (A) Byron (A) Caboolture (S) Cairns (C) Calliope (S) Caloundra (C) Camden (A) Campaspe (S) Campbelltown (C) Canning (C) Canterbury (C) Cardinia (S) Casey (C) Charles Sturt (C) Charters Towers (C) Clarence (C) Cockburn (C 198 24 23 11 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003
 Service Local Govt.
Area ASC BSC FDC LDC OCC VAC Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Coffs Harbour (C) Concord (A) Cook (S) Cooloola (S) Cootamundra (A) Copper Coast (DC) Corowa (A) Dandaragan (S) Dardanup (S) Darebin (C) Darwin (C) Delatite (S) Deniliquin (A) Douglas (S) Dubbo (C) Eacham (S) East Gippsland (S) Emerald (S) Eurobodalla (A) Fairfield (C) Fitzroy (S) Frankston (C) Fremantle (C) Gannawarra (S) Gatton (S) Gawler (M) Gladstone (C) Glen Eira (C) Glenorchy (C) Gold Coast (C) Goondiwindi (T) Gosford (C) Gosnells (C 199 36 37 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Service
 Local Govt.
Area ASC BSC FDC LDC OCC VAC Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Goulburn (C) Grafton (C) Grant (DC) Great Lakes (A) Greater Bendigo (C) Greater Dandenong (C) Greater Geelong (C) Greater Shepparton (C) Greater Taree (C) Griffith (C) Gunnedah (A) Harden (A) Harvey (S) Hastings (A) Hawkesbury (C) Hervey Bay (C) Hobart (C) Hobsons Bay (C) Holroyd (C) Hornsby (A) Horsham (RC) Hume (C) Hurstville (C) Ipswich (C) Isis (S) Johnstone (S) Joondalup (C) Kalamunda (S) Katherine (T) Kempsey (A) Kiama (A) Kingborough (M) Kingston (C 200 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June
 2003 Service Local Govt.
Area ASC BSC FDC LDC OCC VAC Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Knox (C) Kogarah (A) Ku-ring-gai (A) Kwinana (T) Laidley (S) Lake Macquarie (C) Lane Cove (A) Latrobe (C) Latrobe (M) Launceston (C) Leeton (A) Leichhardt (A) Light (DC) Lismore (C) Litchfield (S) Liverpool (C) Livingstone (S) Logan (C) Loxton Waikerie (DC) Macedon Ranges (S) Mackay (C) Maclean (A) Maitland (C) Mallala (DC) Mandurah (C) Manly (A) Manningham (C) Maribyrnong (C) Marion (C) Maroochy (S) Maroondah (C) Marrickville (A) Maryborough (C 201 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Service
 Local Govt.
Area ASC BSC FDC LDC OCC VAC Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Melbourne (C) Melton (S) Melville (C) Mid Murray (DC) Mildura (RC) Mirani (S) Mitcham (C) Monash (C) Moonee Valley (C) Moorabool (S) Moreland (C) Mornington Peninsula (S) Mount Gambier (C) Moyne (S) Mulwaree (A) Nambucca (A) Narrabri (A) Narrandera (A) Newcastle (C) Nillumbik (S) Noosa (S) North Sydney (A) Norwood Payneham St Peters (C) Onkaparinga (C) Orange (C) Palmerston (C) Paroo (S) Parramatta (C) Penrith (C) Perth (C) Pine Rivers (S) Pittwater (A) Playford (C 202 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates,
 4-5 June 2003 Service Local Govt.
Area ASC BSC FDC LDC OCC VAC Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Port Adelaide Enfield (C) Port Lincoln (C) Port Phillip (C) Port Pirie City and Dists (M) Port Stephens (A) Prospect (C) Pyrenees (S) Randwick (C) Redcliffe (C) Redland (S) Richmond Valley (A) Rockdale (C) Rockhampton (C) Rockingham (C) Roebourne (S) Roma (T) Ryde (C) Salisbury (C) Scone (A) Shellharbour (C) Shoalhaven (C) South Gippsland (S) South Perth (C) South Sydney (C) Southern Midlands (M) Stirling (C) Stonnington (C) Strathfield (A) Subiaco (C) Sutherland Shire (A) Swan (C) Swan Hill (RC) Sydney (C 203 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY
 SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Service Local Govt.
Area ASC BSC FDC LDC OCC VAC Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Tambo (S) Tamworth (C) Tea Tree Gully (C) Temora (A) Thuringowa (C) Toowoomba (C) Townsville (C) Tumut (A) Tweed (A) Unincorporated ACT Unincorporated NT Vincent (T) Wagga Wagga (C) Wangaratta (RC) Wanneroo (C) Warringah (A) Warwick (S) Waverley (A) West Tamar (M) West Torrens (C) Whitehorse (C) Whitsunday (S) Whittlesea (C) Willoughby (C) Wingecarribee (A) Wodonga (RC) Wollondilly (A) Wollongong (C) Woollahra (A) Wyndham (C) Wyong (A) Yarra Ranges (S 204 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Service Local Govt.
Area ASC BSC FDC LDC OCC VAC Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Opened Closed Yarrowlumla (A) Young (A) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ASC: After school hours care, BSC: Before school care, FDC: Family day care, LDC: Long day care, OCC: Occasional care, VAC: Vacation care.
205 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.4 Question No: 63 Topic: Registered Training organisations that operate Child Care Centres Hansard Page: CA 397 Senator Moore asked: How many of the child-care services are also registered training organisations across the country?
We are really wanting to see the organisations that actually have that clear registration as a training organisation and are operating as child-care centres.

Answer: The department does not collect or have information of this nature.
206 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.4 Question No: 65 Topic: Statement of Contentions from DEWR regarding wage case – child care.

Hansard Page: CA400 Senator Collins asked: A whole of government submission – Please provide a copy if available of the statement of contentions from DEWR regarding wage case – child care.
Answer: AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION Workplace Relations Act 1996 s.113 Application to vary Award s.107 Reference to Full Bench Australian Municipal, Administrative, Clerical and Services Union (C2002/2620) VICTORIAN LOCAL AUTHORITIES AWARD 2001 (ODN C1989/36277) [Print J9778 [AW811556]] COMMONWEALTH’S OUTLINE OF CONTENTIONS 12 MAY 2003 Introduction The Commonwealth has intervened in this matter in the public interest to address 1. a range of important principles relevant to the Commission’s consideration of the application by the Australian Municipal, Administrative, Clerical and Services Union (ASU).
Primacy of agreement-making A Principal Object of the Workplace Relations Act 1996 (the Act) is that wages 2. and conditions of employment should be determined as far as possible by agreement between employers and employees at the workplace or enterprise level, upon a foundation of minimum standards.
207 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 In addition, the Commission’s functions and powers in relation to making and 3. varying awards must be performed and exercised in a way that encourages the making of agreements between employers and employees at the workplace or enterprise level.
The ASU has not provided evidence that improvements in wages and allowances 4. for the child care workers subject to the Victorian Local Authorities Award 2001 (the Award) affected cannot be achieved through agreement-making.

Victorian local government child care centres are all covered by certified 5. agreements to which the ASU is a party.

The existence of these agreements indicates that the Award, as it stands, is not operating as an impediment to agreement-making.
The Commission will need to guard against an outcome in this case that may disturb the established history of bargaining or act to discourage further agreement-making.

Issues for the sector The Commonwealth agrees that child care workers should be appropriately 6. remunerated and that it is not in the public interest if work in female-dominated occupations is undervalued.

These are issues which the Commission will need to consider in this case.
The ASU has the responsibility to clearly establish the grounds in support of this claim in this regard.

Available, affordable and quality child care enables families to participate in the 7. workforce.

The Commission will also need to have regard for the implications of its decision for the cost and availability of child care services in the areas affected by the Award.

Awarding increased wage rates may result in increased costs for the provision of child care and higher fees for parents accessing care.
Properly constituted safety net 8.

The Commission’s Statement of Principles in relation to the role of arbitration and the safety net indicates that existing wages and conditions in awards constitute a safety net which protects employees who may be unable to reach an enterprise or workplace agreement.

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The ASU asserts that the Award does not fulfil this role and that the relativities established by the Full Bench in Re Child Care Industry (ACT) Award 1985 and Child Care Industry (NT) Award 1986 (Ludeke, Marsh & Laing; 14 September 1990; Print J4316) (the 1990 Child Care Workers case) were not properly determined.

The ASU’s claim needs to be determined consistent with Principle 6 of the 10.

Commission’s Statement of Principles.


Principle 6(e) cautions against revisiting previous work value adjustments or structural efficiency exercises.

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Previous decisions of the Commission under Principle 6 have established guidance and precedence in assessing the merits of claims for award variations under this Principle.

The Commission’s decisions have remained consistent with the decision of the Full Bench in State Electricity Commission of Victoria v Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia.
(Coldham, Cohen & Griffin; 22 May 1987; Print G7498).

This 208 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 decision recognised that in all categories of work, change is evident as new methods of undertaking the work evolve over time and skills which qualify a person for a job become more fully tested.
The decision also recognised that not all change is work value change such that it constitutes the requisite significant net addition to work requirements.

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For the ASU’s claim to be awarded, it would need to clearly demonstrate that there had been work value change to such a degree as to warrant the level of increase sought, and in all other respects be able to satisfy the Commission as to the requirements of Principle 6.
New allowances The ASU also seeks the introduction of new allowances for the (1) handling of 13. nauseous linen, (2) training of staff and (3) retention of staff.

Applications for new allowances require consideration within the parameters 14. established in Principles 5 and 6 of the Commission’s Statement of Principles.

Under Principle 6, evidence would need to be provided of a significant net change in work since the 1990 Child Care Workers case in order to warrant the granting of new allowances.
In relation to the claim for allowances for handling of nauseous linen and 15. training, allowances associated with the regular and consistent job requirements, or conditions affecting the work of a position, are generally absorbed into the classification and pay structures.

Separate allowances are generally granted only for work of a sporadic or inconsistent nature.
The claim for new allowances to compensate for matters that are part of the regular and consistent duties or conditions of child care workers would constitute ‘double dipping’ if they have already been taken into account in determining the classification and pay structure in the 1990 Child Care Workers case.

In relation to the proposed allowance for the retention of staff, claims of this 16. nature should not be matters for the award safety net.
The claim for a retention allowance is not based on work value change, but rather on changes in the labour market for child care workers.

Changes of this nature are more appropriately addressed through agreement-making at the workplace or enterprise level.

Gender equity The ASU assertion that child care work is undervalued because it is a 17. female-dominated occupation is not supported by the material submitted.

Part VIA, Division 2 of the Act deals with equal remuneration for work of equal 18. value.
The definition of the term equal remuneration under the Act adopts the ILO Convention 100 definition: “the term equal remuneration for men and women workers for work of equal value refers to rates of remuneration established without discrimination based on sex.” Section 170BC of the Act allows the Commission to make an order to ensure that there will be equal remuneration for work of equal value.
The present claim is not an application under Division 2 of Part VlA as it relates 19. to the separate issue of award rates as a minimum safety net.

209 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 The ASU has applied under section 113 for an award variation on work value 20. grounds and other grounds affecting the minimum safety net.
In dealing with such an application the Commission must have regard to the objects of the Act including that part of the principal object concerning helping to prevent and eliminate discrimination on the basis of sex (section 3(j) and section 93).

It must also have regard to the need to apply the principle of equal pay for work of equal value (section 88B(3)(d)).
The principle of equal pay for work of equal value means that comparisons are 21. made on the basis of work value, and that they are made with care so as to avoid any potential sex discrimination.

The issue in this regard is whether the ASU has shown that the existing rates are not properly fixed minimum rates of pay which satisfy the principle of equal pay for work of equal value.
The Minimum Rates Adjustment process introduced by the Commission in 1989 22. has provided a framework for establishing appropriate relativities between awards including having regard where relevant to equal pay for work of equal value.
Indeed one of its objectives was to assist the process of achieving pay equity for women by ensuring that work is properly valued – the National Wage Case Decision of 12 August 1988 established the Structural Efficiency Principle, which included addressing any cases where award provisions discriminate against sections of the workforce (Print H4000).
The Commission held in the 1990 Child Care Workers case (cited at paragraph 9 23. above), that the process followed by the parties in comparing child care workers with metal tradespersons was an “acceptable means of carrying out the exercise required to set appropriate minimum classification rates and supplementary payments”.

A key aspect of the ASU’s claim involves a reassessment of the outcome of the 24.

1990 Child Care Workers case.


For the ASU to persuade the Commission to reopen issues determined in its 1990 decision it would have to show that exercise of the arbitral function did not establish rates which satisfy the principle of equal pay for work of equal value or was otherwise erroneously determined.

It is not enough to point to some general notion of social or market undervaluation of child care workers.
210 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.4 Question No: 66 Topic: Hansard Page: CA 400 Senator Collins asked: Can we get a copy of the letter that the Family Day Care Association is sending out with the strong encouragement?
Answer: See below: An open letter from NFDCCA MEETING DEMAND FOR FAMILY DAY CARE PLACES - NOW AND IN THE FUTURE Dear Family Day Care operators and coordinators … 211 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 I am writing to seek the support and cooperation of Family Day Care schemes with unutilised places to assist with the current crisis that is facing the Family Day Care program.
Whilst you may not be attached to such a scheme I am sure that you will also find this information of interest, as it relates to the entire program.

NFDCCA has been active in seeking to address the critical need for more Family Day Care places in some areas.

The Council has worked with FaCS to investigate this issue and to develop strategies to resolve the immediate need and to position the program for growth in the future.
With no new Family Day Care places allocated in the last Commonwealth Budget and no likelihood in the Budget of 2003-04, the demand for Family Day Care must be met by existing but unutilised places.

Until a reasonable reallocation of unutilised places there will be no growth for Family Day Care.

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Forward planning is needed to provide an adequate supply of Family Day Care places to follow up the required reallocation of places !
Support is sought for the predictable demand that will follow the completion of the reallocation exercise Put quite simply the image and representation of the Family Day Care program is currently on the line.

There will be no new places for the program until the unutilised places are reallocated to schemes with a demand for places Current demand nationally for Family Day Care places that could realistically be filled is estimated to be 2900 places.
The 2002 Census showed that overall utilisation in Family Day Care is at 79.6% of total capacity and that this level of utilisation indicates that over 12,900 available places are not being used.

The Census also showed that 131 schemes or 38% of all schemes were using less than 75%.

This presents a crisis for the program.

UTILISATION - LESS THAN 75% Using less than 75% Using m ore than 75% NFDCCA has this week communicated to the Prime Minister, advising him that !
Families across Australia are currently unable to access a place within the Family Day Care program !

NFDCCA has been working with FaCS to address this crisis !
NFDCCA is aware of the need to reallocate the places currently under- utilised in Family Day Care schemes Child Care Census 2002 212 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 If these schemes all relinquished enough places to bring their utilisation to just 75% of their approved places, nearly 4750 places would be available to reallocate to schemes needing more places – many more than required to meet the immediate demand.
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If schemes cooperated in this way there would be NO shortage of Family Day Care places anywhere in Australia.

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If schemes cooperated in this way the department would be able to respond very quickly to any schemes that were full and needed additional places.

It is clearly not acceptable for some schemes to retain significant numbers of places that they are not using.

Particularly when other schemes have an unmet demand for places with: !

children unable to access quality Family Day Care !
parents unable to participate in the workforce/study !

families coping with the economic impact of not being able to access child care !

the Family Day Care program unable to plan or advocate for growth or development NFDCCA is calling on schemes to relinquish any places that are not being used (within the reasonable guidelines of up to 75%).
The 25% buffer allows for places to be used for future demand and/or to supply places to Carers should recruitment be a contributing factor to under utilisation in the scheme.

FaCS will shortly be writing to schemes that are still operating well below their capacity.

NFDCCA encourages those schemes to relinquish at least enough places to bring utilisation levels to 75%.
Fundamental to this process is that only places that are not being used will be targeted for reallocation and that priority will be given to any scheme that relinquishes unused places and subsequently has a need for them - up to the number of places that were relinquished.

In considering your next steps, schemes with unutilised places should remember that: 1.

There are sufficient places in total to meet demand 2.
Meeting demand can only be achieved if schemes co-operate by allowing any unused places (up to the identified benchmark) to be reallocated to areas where they are needed 3.

No scheme will lose any of its funding in this process 4.

Relinquishing unused places is voluntary 5.
It is in the best interest of the Family Day Care sector as a whole for schemes to focus on the common good The urgent co-operation of underutilised schemes is sought – only this will ensure that families around Australia needing Family Day Care will get it be able to do so and only this will enable growth for the 213 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 program to be negotiated.
It is clear that the Government will not be providing more Family Day Care places while there are so many places not being used.

The solution to the current unmet demand for Family Day Care places is in our own hands.

Whilst it is currently not compulsory to relinquish places, NFDCCA considers it vital for the Family Day Care sector as a whole to co-operate urgently in the reallocation exercise.
Your assistance is sought in supporting schemes in real need at this time and in furthering the long-term interests of the Family Day Care program.
Yours sincerely Bron Dekok NFDCCA PRESIDENT 214 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 ATTACHMENT REALLOCATION EXAMPLES Example 1 Scheme A has an approved allocation of 280 places, but according to their Operational Profile is only using 140 places.

It is therefore operating at 50% of capacity (140 divided by 280, multiplied by 100).
If Scheme A wants to operate at 70% of capacity it would have to reduce its number of approved places.

The number of places it would need to have in order to operate at 70% can be calculated by dividing the number it is now using (140) by 70 and multiplying by 100.

This gives a figure of 200 places, so Scheme A would need to relinquish 80 places (280 minus 80 equals 200).

The scheme would have an Operational Profile of 140 places and an approved ceiling of 200 places.
If Scheme A wanted to operate at 75% of capacity it would need to have 187 places (140 divided by 75 multiplied by 100 – rounded up).

Accordingly it would need to relinquish 93 places (280 minus 187 equals 93).

The scheme would then have an Operational Profile of 140 places and an approved ceiling of 187 places.

Example 2 Scheme B has an allocation of 367 places and is using 257 places.

This means it is operating at just over 70% of capacity (257 divided by 367, multiplied by 100 equals 70.027).
If Scheme B wanted to operate at 75% it would need to relinquish 24 places (257 divided by 75, multiplied by 100 equals 343 (rounded); 367 minus 343 equals 24).
215 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.4 Topic: Child Care Hansard Page: CA 398 Question No: 64 Senator Collins asked: Can we get the most recent data available from planning advisory committees or other sources and identifying where that came from – whether it was from the planning advisory or whatever – on (a) unmet demand for family day care by local government area; (b) places requested for family day care by local government area Answer: Unmet demand is measured by the number of places requested by services.
Accordingly, unmet demand is the same as places requested.

The data is collected at the planning area level used by Planning Advisory Committees.

Planning areas are often, but not always at local government area level.

The tables below show the number of family day care places requested in each state and territory by planning area as at June 2003.
NEW SOUTH WALES Planning Area Number of FDC places requested Albury Ballina Bankstown Baulkham Hills Bingara Bland Blayney Bombala Byron Cabonne Campbelltown Canterbury Cobar Coffs Harbour Cooma-Monaro Coonamble Dubbo Eurobodalla Fairfield Forbes Gosford Grafton Great Lakes Greater Lithgow 2 6 25 8 2 16 5 3 7 12 13 7 13 7 1 6 9 20 11 7 31 23 8 16 216 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Greater Taree Gunnedah Hornsby Inverell Kempsey Kiama Kyogle Lismore Liverpool Maclean Maitland Mudgee Narrabri Narromine Parkes Port Stephens Pristine Waters Queanbeyan Quirindi Richmond Valley Rylstone Shellharbour Shoalhaven Snowy River Temora Tweed Uralla Wagga Wagga Wakool Warren Wellington Wollongong Wyong Yallaroi Total VICTORIA Planning Area Number of FDC places requested Cardinia Casey Macedon Ranges Corangamite Hepburn Greater Dandenong Bass Coast Wangaratta 20 20 10 20 10 10 10 10 217 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 10 10 130 Wyndham Horsham Total QUEENSLAND Planning Area Number of FDC places requested Albert Aspley Atherton Bayside Bowen Bundaberg Burdekin Caboolture Cairns Central Highlands Central West City Core Cook Cooloola Fraser Gladstone Hinchinbrook Hinterland
 Inner Brisbane South Ipswich Johnstone Kedron Kenmore Logan Mackay Near South West North Burnett Outer Brisbane South A Outer Brisbane South B Red Hill Redcliffe Redland Rockhampton Sandgate South East Darling Downs South West Brisbane Sunshine Coast Toowoomba Townsville Whitsunday Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Total 1201 SOUTH AUSTRALIA Planning Area Number of FDC places requested Holdfast, Charles Sturt, Marion, Unley, Mitcham, West Torrens, Port Adelaide Enfield Port Augusta, Port Pirie, Whyalla, Northern Areas, Peterborough, Mt Remarkable Salisbury, Playford, Gawler, Barossa, Malalla Mount Gambier, Naracoorte, Mid Murray, Murray Bridge, The Coorong Onkaparinga, Alexandrina, Victor Harbour, Yankalilla, Kangaroo Island Total WESTERN AUSTRALIA 39 39 142 30 66 316 Planning Area Number of FDC places requested Canning Cockburn Gosnells Kwinana Mandurah Perth Swan Wanneroo Total TASMANIA 20 20 10 40 10 8 8 30 146 Planning Area Number of FDC places requested Burnie Devonport Glenorchy Launceston Total NORTHERN TERRITORY No requests for family day care places.
ACT No requests for family day care places.

40 40 15 10 105 219 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.4 Topic: Child Care Hansard Page: CA 401 Question No: 67 Senator Moore asked: Please provide unmet demand information for the various types of outside school age care and whether it is before or after and vacation care.
Answer: Unmet demand is measured by the number of places requested by services.

The table below shows the number of outside school hours care places requested in each state and territory as at June 2003.
STATE/TERRITORY New South Wales Victoria Queensland South Australia Western Australia Tasmania Northern Territory Australian Capital Territory TOTAL BS 2996 1135 1667 540 130 28 30 246 6772 AS 3960 1485 3062 1119 221 133 160 246 VAC TOTAL 4793 979 3102 1005 354 240 160 330 11749 3599 7831 2664 705 401 350 822 10386 10963 28121 220 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.4 Topic: Child Care Hansard Page: CA 401 Question No: 68 Senator Collins asked: Please provide up-to-date figures on requests for places from outside school hours care broken down by before, after and vacation care by (a) state and territory (b) local government Answer: The tables below show the number of outside school hours care places requested in each state and territory as at June 2003.
The data is collected at the planning area level used by Planning Advisory Committees.

Planning areas are often, but not always at local government area level.
NEW SOUTH WALES Planning Area Places requested by OSHC services BS AS VAC Total Albury Ashfield Auburn Bankstown Bathurst Baulkham Hills Bega Valley Blacktown Blue Mountains Botany Broken Hill Burwood Byron Camden Campbelltown Canada Bay Canterbury Coffs Harbour Cowra Deniliquin Dubbo Dungog Fairfield Forbes Gosford Goulburn Grafton Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Griffith Hastings Hawkesbury Holroyd Hornsby Hurstville Kempsey Kiama Kogarah Ku-ring-gai Kyogle Lake Macquarie Lane Cove Leichardt Lismore Lithgow Liverpool Maitland Manly Marrickville Mosman Newcastle Orange Parramatta Penrith Pittwater Queanbeyan Randwick Richmond Valley Rockdale Ryde Shoalhaven Singleton Snowy River South Sydney Strathfield Sutherland Tallaganda Tamworth Tweed Wagga Wagga Walcha Walgett Warringah Weddin Wellington Wentworth Wingecarribee 15
Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003
 Wollongong Woollarah Wyong Yass Total VICTORIA Planning Area Ararat Ballarat Banyule Baw Baw Boroondara Brimbank Cardinia Casey Darebin Delatite East Gippsland Frankston Glen Eira Glenelg Golden Plains Greater Bendigo Greater Dandenong Greater Geelong Greater Shepparton Hepburn Hobsons Bay Hume Kingston Knox Macedon Ranges Manningham Maribyrnong Maroondah Melbourne Melton Mildura Mitchell Monash Moonee Valley Moorabool Moreland Mornington Peninsula 100 15 85 30 2996 155 30 90 30 3960 200 30 175 60 4793 455 75 350 120 11749 Places requested by OSHC services BS AS VAC Total Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Mount Alexander Murrindindi Nillumbik Northern Grampians Port Phillip Queenscliffe Stonnington Surf Coast Swan Hill Whitehorse Whittlesea Wodonga Wyndham Yarra Yarra Ranges Total QUEENSLAND Planning Area Arundel Ascot Ashgrove Aspley Bald Hills Balonne Banyo Beaudesert - Pt B Beaudesert Bal in BSD Benowa
 Bethania-Waterford Bracken Ridge Bray Park Brighton Broadbeach Broadbeach Waters Browns Plains Bulimba Bundaberg Burleigh Heads Burnett Part B Burpengary-Narangbah Caboolture - Central Cairns - Barron Cairns - Central Suburbs Cairns - Northern Suburbs Cairns - Trinity Places requested by OSHC services BS AS VAC Total 10 30 0 15 0 0 15
OSHC services BS AS VAC Total Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Calamvale Caloundra - Hinterland Caloundra - Kawana Cambooya Cannon Hill Capalaba Carbrook-Cornubia Carina Carrara-Merrimac Clontarf Coomera-Cedar Creek Coorparoo Corinda Currajong Daisy Hill-Priestdale Doolandella-Forest Lake Eacham East Brisbane Elanora Ferny Grove Fraser Gatton Gladstone Greenslopes Guanaba-Currumbin Valley Helensvale Hervey Bay Holland Park Indooroopilly Inner Brisbane South Ipswich - Central Ipswich - East Ipswich - West Jamboree Heights Jindalee Johnstone Kallangur Kedron Kelvin Grove Keperra Kilcoy Kingaroy Kirwan Laidley Mackay - Pt A Manly Mansfield 0
Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Mareeba Margate-Woody Point Maroochy - Bal in S Cst S Maroochy - Buderim Maroochy - Mooloolaba Maroochy Bal Maroochy - Coastal North Maroochy - Maroochydore Maroochy - Nambour Miami Moorooka Mt Gravatt Mt Gravatt East Mt Louisa-Mt St John-Bohle Mudgeeraba
 Munduberra Murarrie Murray Nerang Noosa - Sunshine Peregian Norman Park Northgate Nudgee Nundah Oonoonba-Idalia-Cluden Petrie Pine Rivers Bal Pinkenba Eagle-Eagle Farm Redcliffe-Scarborough Robina-Clear Island Waters Rochedale Rothwell-Kippa Ring Runcorn Sandgate South Burnett South Brisbane Southport Spring Hill Springwood Stafford Strathpine Sunnybark Sunshine Coast Thornlands Thuringowa - Pt A Bal Tingalpa Toowoomba - North West Toowoomba - Central Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Toowoomba - North East Toowoomba - South East Toowoomba - West Upper Mt Gravatt Victoria Point Wilston Windsor Wishart Wondai Woodridge Wooloowin Zillmere Total SOUTH AUSTRALIA Planning Area Adelaide Adelaide Hills Bal Adelaide Hills Central Adelaide Hills North Adelaide Hills Ranges Barossa Burnside North East Campbelltown West
 Charles Sturt Coast Gawler Light Loxton & Waikerie East Marion Central Marion North Marion South Mitcham Hills Mitcham North East Mitcham West Murray Bridge Onkaparinga Morphett Onkaparinga North Coast Onkaparinga Reservoir Onkaparinga South Coast Onkaparinga Woodcroft Playford East Central Playford Elizabeth Playford Hills Playford West Playford West Central 75
20 30 3102 40 50 10 20 40 25 90 115 30 80 20 75 7831 Places requested by OSHC services BS AS VAC Total Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Port Adelaide Enfield Coast Port Adelaide Enfield East Port Adelaide Enfield Inner Port Adelaide Enfield Port Port Augusta Robe Salisbury Bal Salisbury Central Salisbury Inner North Salisbury North East Salisbury South East Tea Tree Gully Central Tea Tree Gully Hills Tea Tree Gully North Tea Tree Gully South Unley East Unley West Walkerville West Torrens East West Torrens West Total WESTERN AUSTRALIA Planning Area Armadale Belmont Bunbury Fremantle Joondalup Kalamunda Melville Perth Pilbara South Perth Stirling Swan Upper South West Wanneroo Total Places requested by OSHC services BS AS VAC Total 0
TASMANIA Planning Area Places requested by OSHC services BS AS VAC Total Break O'Day 0 20 20 40 228 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Burnie City Central Coast Clarence Devonport Glenorchy Hobart Kingborough Launceston Total 0 0 0 0 0 28 0 0 28 15 15 0 20 33 0 0 30 133 0 15 80 20 65 20 20 0 240 15 30
 80 40 98 48 20 30 401 NORTHERN TERRITORY Planning Area Darwin CBD Northern Suburbs Palmerston Total Places requested by OSHC services BS AS VAC Total 0 0 30 30 60 35 65 160 60 35 65 160 120 70 160 350 AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY Planning Area Gungahlin North Belconnen South Belconnen North Canberra South Canberra North Tuggeranong South Tuggeranong Weston Creek Woden Valley Total Places requested by OSHC services BS AS VAC Total Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.4 Topic: Child Care Hansard Page: CA401 Question No: 69 Senator Collins asked: Please provide a table containing the following information – Nearly 1,400 places are also available for reallocation and that will be ongoing.
The state-by-state break up of that 1398 places is 1,087 in New South Wales; 189 in Queensland; four in Western Australia; 18 in South Australia; and 100 in the ACT.

So that is on top of the 5850 places – another nearly 1,400 places also to be reallocated.

Answer: The tables below provide the numbers of reallocated places and places available for reallocation for Outside School Hours Care.
Places Reallocated prior to May 2003 Places Available for Reallocation as at May 2003 New South Wales Victoria Queensland South Australia Western Australia Tasmania Northern Territory Australian Capital Territory TOTALS 1222 2791 140 1012 372 126 0 187 5850 1087 0 189 18 4 0 0 100 1398 230 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.4 Topic: Child Care Hansard Page: CA402 Senator Collins asked: Question No: 70 Please provide by State and Territory the reallocation of outside school hour care places to vacation care – please refer to Hansard.
Answer: Table below shows the numbers of places reallocated to vacation care from July 2001 to May 2003.
State/Territory New South Wales Victoria Queensland South Australia Western Australia Tasmania Northern Territory Australian Capital Territory TOTAL 330 1101 75 767 248 15 5 83 2624 231 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.4 Topic: Child Care Hansard Page: CA403 Senator Collins asked: Question No: 71 Am I correct in inferring that there were no such reallocations in New South Wales, South Australia, mostly, from the ACT?
Answer: The response to Question on Notice No 1055 about the number of reallocated Vacation Care places to States and Territories was provided in February 2003 and was: Victoria 1030, Queensland 230, Western Australia 198 and Northern Territory 5.

There were none in New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania or Australian Capital Territory at that time.
232 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.4 Topic: Child Care Hansard Page: CA 403 Question No: 72 Senator Moore asked: Can we get something from you that spells out what you take into account in the general reviewing process?
I know that the things you just mentioned were people’s local knowledge and awareness, but I am interested in it in terms of the kinds of things that are used to assess need, and what is used to provide advice for those decisions that the planning advisory councils make about what the needs are.

It would be useful to have something from the department to tell us that, so we are speaking the same language.
Answer: Child care places (except long day care centre places) are allocated in accordance with the Child Care Benefit (Allocation of Child Care Places) Determination 2000.

This determination requires the Secretary to take into account the relative needs of different areas of Australia for the kinds of child care places to be allocated.

Planning Advisory Committees (PACS) operate in each State and Territory to provide advice on the areas that need child care places.
PACS are provided with a range of demographic and other data on supply and demand for child care places at the local level.

From July 2003, the key indicators used to assess need will be the comparative supply of child care places in different areas, the expressed demand for child care places in those areas and the utilisation of existing places in those areas.

Comparative supply ranks each planning area according to the number of child care places per 100 children.
Demand is based on requests from services or prospective service operators to be allocated approved places.

It is a measure of the number of places that services could actually put into operation.

Utilisation shows the percentage of approved places in an area that are actually used.

These indicators will continue to be supplemented by any additional survey or other information and the local or sectoral knowledge brought to meetings by PAC members.
PACs will make recommendations to the Department on the relative priorities of areas requiring additional child care places based on these four main sources of information.
233 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Question No: 75 Output Group: 1.4 Topic: Child Care Hansard Page: CA 416 Senator Collins asked: Are members of the Child Care Planning Advisory Committees (a) on fixed terms?
(b) How often are they reviewed (c) Reviewed by whom Answer: (a) Planning Advisory Committee members serve as representatives of child care peak bodies and state and local government, not as individuals.

Members are not appointed on fixed terms.

(b) and (c) Membership of Planning Advisory Committees is not formally reviewed, but State and Territory Offices of the Department of Family and Community Services monitor membership of their Planning Advisory Committees to ensure it remains appropriate.
234 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.4 Topic: Child Care Hansard Page: CA 416 Question No: 76 Senator Collins asked: Are there any user representatives on the Planning Advisory Committees?

Answer: Not directly, although a number of members of the Planning and Advisory Committees would be expected to have current or past experience as users.
235 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.4 Topic: Child Care Hansard Page: CA 416 Question No: 77 Senator Collins asked: Has there ever been consideration of involving users on Planning Advisory Committees?
Answer: When Planning Advisory Committees (PACs) were first established, the number of members of each PAC was limited to six and did not allow for user representatives.

Subsequently, some states and territories have considered the inclusion of user representatives on their PACs.

However to date, there have been difficulties in identifying an appropriate person or organisation with the necessary skills and knowledge interested in taking up the position.
236 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.4 Question No: 73 Topic: Jobs Education and Training (JET) Child Care Hansard Page: CA 415 Senator Moore asked: Please provide an idea of what the current numbers of JET placements are across Queensland.
Answer: The number of parents referred for JET Child Care assistance in Queensland during the period 1 July 2002 to 31 May 2003 was 3,596.

The number of children involved in these referrals was 5100.
237 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.4 Question No: 79 Topic: Jobs Education and Training (JET) Child Care Hansard Page: CA 419 Senator Moore asked: If you had someone who has been approved as a JET placement and that does have that little flag priority, is that clearly identified somewhere?
Can we find out whether there is anyone in that situation across the country?

Answer: Each month there are a small number of JET eligible parents for whom child care places are not immediately available due to the current high demand for child care.

During May 2003, child care places were not able to be found for 6 children (from 4 families) across Australia.
If a suitable child care place is not immediately available, JET staff will continue efforts to locate a child care place unless the parent advises s/he is no longer seeking child care.
238 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.4 Question No: 74 Topic: Think Tank on Work Force Issues – Invitees Hansard Page: CA415 Senator Moore asked: Think Tank on work force issues – please provide advice about who was at that particular meeting?
Answer: 239 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Martin Kemp Australian Confederation of Child Care Inc. (ACCC) NSW John Zika National Peak Ethnic Children's Services Network (NPECSN) NSW Judy Radich Australian Early Childhood Association (AECA) ACT Ruth Gibson Minister Larry Anthony's Office ACT Gwynne Bridge Australian Federation of Child Care Associations (AFCCA) QLD Jennifer Brinsmead Minister Larry Anthony's Office ACT Lynne Wannan National Association of Community Based Children's Services (NACBCS) VIC Carol Grant National Alliance of Disability Resource and Training Agencies (NADRATA) VIC Bron Dekok National Family Day Care Council of Australia Limited (NFDCCA) SA Ms Robyn Monro-Miller National Out of School Hours Services Association (NOSHSA) NSW Jennifer Lewis Occasional Child Care Association - National (OCCA-NA) NSW Julian Pocock Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC) VIC John Tainton (NCAC Chair) Early Childhood Professional QLD David Kalisch Family and Children's Cluster Department of Family and Community Services ACT Dawn Casey Child Care Services Branch Department of Family and Community Services ACT Donna Griffin Child Care Benefits Branch Department of Family and Community Services ACT Jean Gifford Family and Children's Policy Branch Department of Family and Community Services ACT Kerry Jeans Child Care Services Branch Department of
 Family and Community Services ACT Robyn Calder 240 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 ACT Department of Education, Youth and Family Services ACT Barbara Baikie Children's Youth and Family Services ACT John Williams Office of Child Care Department of Community Services NSW Chris Shakes Children's Services South Australian Department of Education and Children's Services SA Cora-Ann
 Wilson Children's Services Department for Community Development WA Jeanette Nagorcka Family and Community Support Branch Department of Human Services VIC Judy Hebblethwaite Community Partnerships Department of Education TAS Helen Crawford Department of Health & Community Services NT Anne Reddell Child Care Unit Department of Families QLD Claire Hargreaves Australian Local Government Association (ALGA) VIC 241 Beverley Giergerl Australian Local Government Association (ALGA) NSW Jill Farrelly Office of the Status of Women Dep’t of the Prime Minister & Cabinet ACT Liz Hefren-Webb Employment, Families and Indigenous Policy Branch Dep’t of the Prime Minister & Cabinet ACT John Ignatius Employment, Family and Community Branch Department of Finance and Administration ACT Eileen Newmarch Performance and Targetted Programs Branch Department of Education, Science and Training ACT John Kovacic Workplace Relations Implementation Group Department of Employment and Workplace Relations ACT Margaret Young Resource and Advisory Agencies Lady Gowrie NSW Barbara Romeril Resource and Advisory Agencies National Advisory, Training and Management Agencies Association WA Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 NSW Sue Bellino Australian Liquor Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union NSW Caroline Fewster Child Care Centres of Australia Ltd QLD Meriel Schultz Uniting Care Australia ACT Ginie Udy Sydney Day Nursery Children's Services NSW Frank Cusmano Child Care Centres Association of Victoria VIC Dr Glenda MacNaughton Centre for Equity & Innovation Early Childhood The University of Melbourne VIC Assoc Professor June Wangmann Department of Community Services NSW Chris Buck Australian Child Care Association QLD Antoinette le Marchant KU Children’s Services NSW Tonia Goddard Child Care Professional, NSW Collette Tayler School of Early Childhood Queensland
 University of Technology QLD Valerie Aloa School of Education University of South Australia SA Professor Jennifer Bowes Division of Early Childhood and Education Macquarie University NSW Di Lawson Industries Training and Advisory Board (ITAB) NSW Lyn Nagel National Association of Mobile Services for Rural & Remote Families and Children Inc (NAMS) C/- Remote & Island Children's Exercise SA June McLoughlin Early Childhood Unit Centre for Community Child Health VIC Anne Marie Mioche Families Australia ACT Moreen Lyons Australian Services Union NSW Professor Frank Oberklaid Early Childhood Unit Centre for Community Child Health VIC Frances Press Division of Early Childhood and Education Macquarie University 242 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.4 Topic: Hansard Page: CA417 Written question on notice Senator Collins asked: (in relation to the Department’s website) Question No: 78 Is there another page in relation to the Child Care Reference Group and does that include minutes that are more current?
Answer: There is no page on the FaCS website in relation to the Child Care Reference Group and therefore no minutes.

All references to the previous Child Care Benefit Reference Group have been removed from the website.
243 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.4 Question Topic: Hansard Page: CA325 Senator Moore asked: No: 80 SNSS Child Care Waiting List - What is the oldest application on the waiting list, the one that has taken the longest to fill?

Answer: The oldest application on the SNSS waiting list is dated 24 October 2001.
244 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.4 Topic: Special Needs Subsidy Scheme Hansard Page: CA326 Senator Moore asked: Question No: 81 Special Needs Subsidy Scheme – For the children who are eligible for the program and are currently receiving help under the program—what kinds of special needs have been identified and how many people with individual needs are being helped?
You have talked about autism and so on.

Answer: The focus of The Special Needs Subsidy Scheme (SNSS) is on building the capacity of child care services to successfully include all children.

The Special Needs Subsidy Scheme is available to children who have an ongoing need for a high level of support in a child care environment.
According to the SNSS Guidelines, the eligible groups are: • • • children with disabilities (diagnosed physical, sensory, neurological, intellectual or learning impairment), children undergoing continuing assessment for such disabilities or developmental delay; and/or refugee children who have been subjected to torture or trauma in their country of origin or during their refugee experience.

As at 1 April 2003, 3414 children were receiving SNSS support.
245 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.4 Topic: Special Needs Subsidy Scheme Hansard Page: CA327 Senator Moore asked: Question No: 82 How long does it normally take from the time that you validate the application to a child starting in a centre?
Answer: Validation of applications already on the SNSS waiting list is only conducted when there is a strong indication that a child may immediately begin receiving SNSS support.
The validation exercise takes into account a range of variables and reviews the application to assess whether the child’s circumstances would still make them eligible for support or, if the child already receives some support and is seeking additional hours, whether the application still meets the eligibility to the additional care.

There is no ‘normal’ or average timeframe for this to occur, as there is a large range of variables for each individual case.
As a result the Department does not collect data of this nature.
246 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Output Group: 1.4 Topic: Child Care Staffing Issues Written question on notice Senator Bishop asked: Question No: 163 Please provide the most recently available data/information in the following areas, broken down by State/Territory for all Commonwealth funded child care related activities: a) Numbers of approved and registered services (by service type) b) Breakdown by service type by ownership (i.e.
community based, private, multi-owned private (i.e.
3 or more services owned by single operator) c) Places allocated by service type d) Utilisation rates by service type e) Children assisted by service type f) Families assisted by service type g) Number of staff/carers by service type h) Number of openings and closures by services type by electorate and/or by State Unmet demand Please provide the most recent data available (from Planning Advisory Committees or other sources, identifying the source of the information) on: a) Unmet demand for Family Day Care, by State/Territory b) Places requested for Family Day Care, by State/Territory c) Places requested for Occasional Care, by State/Territory d) Unmet demand for Outside School Hours Care, by State/Territory, and by service type (i.e.
Before School Care, After School Care, Vacation Care) e) Places requested for Outside School Hours Care, by State/Territory, and by service type (i.e.

Before School Care, After School Care, Vacation Care) f) Places requested for other types of child care, by State/Territory (e.g.
MACS, Multi- function centres, In-Home Care, etc) Reallocation of Places – FDC and OSH Please provide update on the number of places reallocated, with details by State and Territory of where they have come from and where they have been allocated to, since 1 July 2001 in: a) Family Day Care b) In Home Child Care c) Outside School Hours Care, broken down into After School, Before School and Vacation Care places Child Care Benefit Provide details of how much CCB is provided to users of the following service types: a) Long Day Care b) Family Day Care c) In Home Child Care d) Outside School Hours Care, broken down into After School, Before School and Vacation Care places e) Occasional Care 247 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Staffing issues - a) Why was there no measure in the 2003-04 Budget to address the staffing shortage in child care?
b) When will the outcomes of the Government “think tank” be publicly available?

Please provide a copy.
Answer: a) Approved and registered services by service type and State/Territory, June 2001 WA TAS NT ACT AUST Service type ASC1 BSC1 FDC LDC MAC2 MULTI2 OCC VAC TOTAL3 RCP4 NSW VIC QLD 613 463 116 1,661 12 1 46 495 666 407 87 813 7 2 25 296 476 293 114 895 3 3 16 413 3,407 2,303 2,213 SA ASC: After school hours care, BSC: Before school care, FDC: Family day care, LDC: Long day care, MAC: Multifunctional aboriginal children's service, Multi: Multifunctional children's service, OCC: Occasional care, VAC: Vacation care, RCP: Registered care provider.
(1) Adding ASC and BSC services will under -count OSHC services due to the current Centrelink process of combining co-located and co-managed ASC and BSC services into single administrative ASC services.

The combining of services also affects the overall total of services.

(2) MAC and Multi figures are estimates from December 2000.

(3) Includes approved services only as registered care providers are not counted as approved child care services.
(4) There were 33 registered care providers whose home State/Territory could not be determined.

248 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 b) Breakdown by service type by ownership (i.e.

community based, private, multi-owned private) as at April 2003.

Service type CLD PLD (1 or 2 services) No.
of owners 908 2132 Mulit-PLD (3 or more) 74 Source: Centrelink Administrative Data, April 2003 Note: CLD: Community Based Long Day Care (not for profit): PLD: Private Long Day Care (for profit) Notre : Multi-PLD is defined as a sponsor recorded as owning 3 or more private services on COS. NSW NT ACT VIC QLD c) Places allocated by service type and State/Territory, June 2001 Service type SA WA 6,640 ASC 26,653 28,681 25,110 10,286 2,073 BSC 4,850 14,571 13,750 9,797 4,772 FDC 5,323 22,351 16,747 12,547 9,904 13,896 64,271 42,156 55,297 LDC MAC1 151 120 MULTI1 126 134 376 OCC 516 VAC 6,636 20,739 15,001 22,965 150,286 117,327 126,486 38,676 34,670 TOTAL RCP2 na ASC: After school hours care, BSC: Before school care, FDC: Family day care, LDC: Long day care, MAC: Multifunctional aboriginal children's service, Multi: Multifunctional children's service, OCC: Occasional care, VAC: Vacation care.
(1) MAC and Multi figures are estimates from December 2000.

(2) Approved places are not allocated to registered care providers.
AUST 1,837 3,473 104,652 47,073 70,840 1,909 4,021 193,809 1,168 0 625 0 3,074 102 1,750 1,712 78,786 6,814 15,796 500,027 TAS 1,972 340 3,247 2,355 27 0 79 1,952 9,972 153 1,539 904 4,949 125 74 83 8,031 460 55 1,186 115 136 10 170 100 722 na na na na na na na na d) Utilisation rate by service type and State/Territory VIC QLD NSW Service type LDC FDC LDC : Long Day Care: FDC: Family Day care Source : Census of Child Care Services 2002 Note: Utilisation is only available for LDC and FDC services.
90.1 72.0 84.2 77.5 88.4 87.5 SA 82.2 87.0 WA TAS NT 89.6 71.9 77.9 75.4 79.3 59.9 ACT AUST 87.8 77.8 85.3 47.5 249 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 SA NT WA VIC TAS ACT QLD NSW AUST (2) 38,683 14,176 39,934 135,765 4,931 33,466 42,695 43,980 8,851 14,124 30,264 25,081 82,501 122,799 1,977 3,800 33,745 27,690 226,306 174,361 196,629 e) Children using approved care services by service type and State/Territory during the September 2002 quarter Service type ASC 22,918 BSC 6,987 FDC 13,061 LDC 25,944 OCC 353 VAC 17,949 TOTAL (1) 64,154 (1) Total count does not represent an aggregation of service type data as children may have used more than one type of service during the quarter.
(2) Australian total does not represent an aggregation of State and Territory data as some children have used services in more than one State/Territory during the quarter.

ASC: After school hours care, BSC: Before school care, FDC: Family day care (including in- home-care), LDC: Long day care, OCC: Occasional care, VAC: Vacation care.
Note: weighted data Source: Centrelink administrative data as at 03-01- SA NT WA VIC TAS ACT QLD NSW AUST (2) 28,534 10,794 28,392 114,052 4,053 23,162 28,994 31,069 6,367 10,321 16,714 19,583 91,641 66,165 1,627 2,990 22,195 18,598 169,164 120,710 133,590 f) Families using approved care services by service type and State/Territory during the September 2002 quarter Service type ASC 3,497 116,587 1,360 15,525 BSC 34,426 691 51 4,919 FDC 1,685 84,885 801 7,717 LDC 5,351 336,099 2,535 20,774 OCC 10,711 262 6 286 VAC 1,363 87,743 1,627 11,593 TOTAL (1) 4,643 10,146 534,370 41,995 (1) Total count does not represent an aggregation of service type data as families may have used more than one type of service during the quarter.
(2) Australian total does not represent an aggregation of State and Territory data as some families have used services in more than one State/Territory during the quarter.

ASC: After school hours care, BSC: Before school care, FDC: Family day care (including in- home-care), LDC: Long day care, OCC: Occasional care, VAC: Vacation care.

Note: Weighted data.


Source: Centrelink administrative data as at 03-01-03 5,247 1,209 6,250 29,520 1,247 7,075 42,725 2,446 120 4,229 5,848 291 2,140 12,321 250 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 g) Staff and carers by service type and State/Territory.
Staffing for service NSW VIC QLD SA WA 9400 309 2959 38 53 2775 2000 225 36 58 28 7 17888 14020 601 3848 9 77 2822 2767 377 12 158 29 22 24742 LDC FDC-STAFF FDC-CARERS IHC-STAFF IHC-CARERS OSHC VAC OCC MULTI MAC MOB APG TOTAL LDC: Long Day Care, FDC: Family Day Care, IHC: In Home Care , OSHC: Outside School Hours Care, VAC: Vacation care, OCC: Occasional care Multi: Multifunctional children's service, , MAC: Multifunctional aboriginal children's service, MOB: Mobile toy libraries, APG: Aboriginal Play Groups Note: Child Care Census staff and carer data cannot be reliably split into BSC and ASC.
Note: FDC and IHC staff counts administrative staff.

FDC and IHC carers count actual carers only.
Source: 2002 Census of Child Care (unweighted) TAS NT ACT AUST h) Openings and Closures of Child Care Centres The table below shows openings and closures of Commonwealth funded child care centres by service type and electorate for the period 1 July 2002 – 1 April 2003.
Note that current openings and closures information does not take into account transfers of service ownership.

When the ownership of a service is transferred Centrelink is required to close the service on the Child Care Operator system and to create a new service record to affect the transfer.

This means that any transfer of ownership will be recorded as both an opening and a closure.
Additionally, Centrelink is combining co-located and co-managed After School Care and Before School Care services into single administrated outside school hours care services.

This means that most Before School Care service closures will in fact be a result of this process and should not be regarded as closures.

Therefore the information in the following table is not comparable with previous information provided on openings and closures.
Openings and closures by Commonwealth electoral division and service type (July 2002- April 2003) Service Electoral Division ASC BSC FDC LDC OCC VAC Opene d Close d Opene d Close d Opene d Close d Opene d Close d Opene d Close d Opene d Close d Adelaide Aston 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 6 0 0 4 0 2 4 2 3 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 251 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Service ASC BSC FDC LDC OCC VAC Opene d Close d Opene d Close d Opene d Close d Opene d Close d Opene d Close d Opene d Close 252 1 5 1 4 0 3 1 2 2 1 2 1 2 5 1 8 10 Electoral Division Ballarat Banks Barker Barton Bass Batman Bendigo Bennelong Berowra Blair Blaxland Bonython Boothby Bowman Braddon Bradfield Brand Brisbane Bruce Burke Calare Calwell Canberra Canning Capricornia Casey Charlton Chifley Senate
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13 14 253 Electoral Division Chisholm Cook Corio Cowan Cowper Cunningha m Curtin Dawson Deakin Denison Dickson Dobell Dunkley Eden- Monaro Fadden Fairfax Farrer Fisher Flinders Forde Forrest Fowler Franklin Fraser Fremantle Gellibrand Gilmore Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Service ASC BSC FDC LDC OCC VAC Opene d Close d Opene d Close d Opene d Close d Opene d Close d Opene d Close d Opene d Close 254 11 0
Electoral Division Gippsland Goldstein Grayndler Greenway Grey Griffith Groom Gwydir Hasluck Herbert Higgins Hindmarsh Hinkler Holt Hotham Hughes Hume Hunter Indi Isaacs Jagajaga Kalgoorlie Kennedy Kingsford Smith Kingston Kooyong La Trobe Lalor Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES
 PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Service ASC BSC FDC LDC OCC VAC Opene d Close d Opene d Close d Opene d Close d Opene d Close d Opene d Close d Opene d Close Electoral Division Leichhardt Lilley Lindsay Lingiari Longman Lowe Lyne Lyons Macarthur Mackellar Macquarie Makin Mallee Maranoa Maribyrnon g Mayo Mcewen Mcmillan Mcpherson Melbourne Melbourne Ports Menzies Mitchell Moncrieff Moore Moreton Murray Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Service ASC BSC FDC LDC OCC VAC Opene d Close d Opene d Close d Opene d Close d Opene d Close d Opene d Close d Opene d Close 1
1
Electoral Division New England Newcastle North Sydney O'Connor Oxley Page Parkes Parramatta Paterson Pearce Perth Petrie Port Adelaide Prospect Rankin Reid Richmond Riverina Robertson Ryan Scullin Shortland Solomon Stirling Sturt Swan Sydney Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 Service ASC BSC FDC LDC OCC VAC Opene d Close d Opene d Close d Opene d Close d Opene d Close d Opene d Close d Opene d Close Electoral Division Tangney Throsby Wakefield Wannon Warringah Watson Wentworth Werriwa Wide Bay Wills ASC: After school hours care, BSC: Before school care, FDC: Family day care, LDC: Long day care, OCC: Occasional care, VAC: Vacation care.
Unmet Demand – a) Unmet demand is measured by the number of places requested by services.

The table below shows demand for Family Day Care at June 2003.

New South Wales Victoria Queensland South Australia Western Australia Tasmania Northern Territory ACT Total 663 130 1201 316 146 105 0 0 2561 b) Places requested for Family Day Care.

Unmet demand is measured by the number of places requested by services.

Accordingly, unmet demand is the same as places requested.

c) Places requested for Occasional Care.


No States/Territories have requests for additional places for Occasional Care.

257 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 d) Unmet demand is measured by the number of places requested by services.

The table below provides data on unmet demand for Outside School Hours Care as at June 2003.
State/Territory New South Wales Victoria Queensland South Australia Western Australia Tasmania Northern Territory ACT Total BS 2996 1135 1667 540 130 28 30 246 6772 AS VAC TOTAL 3960 1485 3062 1119 221 133 160 246 10386 4793 979 3102 1005 354 240 160 330 10963 11749 3599 7831 2664 705 401 350 822 28121 e) Places requested for Outside School Hours Care.

This is the same answer as Unmet demand for Outside School Hours Care.
f) Places requested for In-home Care as at May 2003: State/Territory NSW QLD SA WA TAS NT ACT VIC Total Places Requested 589 667 105 60 40 Nil Nil Nil* 1461 Places Allocated 260 270 20 85 65 Nil Nil Nil 700 *Victoria had previously requested an allocated 103 places.

Other forms of child care, such as MACS and Multi-functional services are not considered in the National Planning System.

Consequently data on requests for places is not collected formally.
258 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 (a) Reallocation of Places – FDC and OSH The table below provides the number of places relinquished and reallocated in Family Day Care from July 2001 until June 2003.
States NSW VIC QLD WA TAS ACT TOTAL Relinquished 626 1476 30 64 60 210 2466 Reallocated 1356 358 667 191 60 80 2712* This figure includes places that were available at the commencement of the * reallocation exercise.

(b) (c) In-home Child Care: There have been no places reallocated since 1 July 2001.

The table below provides the number of relinquished and reallocated places in Outside School Hours Care, from July 2001 until June 2003.
States BS Relinquished AS VAC ALL NSW QLD VIC SA WA TAS ACT TOTAL Reallocated AS VAC ALL 330 1222 560 50 140 75 1220 1101 2791 767 1012 146 372 248 110 126 15 111 73 187 83 2270 2619 5850 BS 332 15 470 95 14 0 31 957 Child Care Benefit The amount of Child Care Benefit for the service types requested for the 2001-2002 financial year is shown below.
Service type ASC BSC FDC LDC OCC VAC TOTAL Percentage CCB ($) 4.1 0.8 18.6 72.8 0.5 3.3 100.0 52,116,747 10,049,416 235,756,647 923,938,506 5,961,836 41,296,565 1,269,119,717 259 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee ANSWERS TO ESTIMATES QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PORTFOLIO 2003-04 Budget Estimates, 4-5 June 2003 ASC: After school hours care, BSC: Before school care, FDC: Family day care, LDC: Long day care, OCC: Occasional care, VAC: Vacation care.
Note: Excludes CCB received as a lump sum payment and CCB paid for informal care.

Note: Data for each service type has been weighted.

Note: In-home-care expenditure is included in the Family Day Care amount.

Note: Information is based on pre-reconciliation amounts paid to families during the financial year.

These figures do not take into account Centrelink advance/acquittals to services.

Note: Weighted data.

Source: Centrelink administrative data as at 01-11-02.
Staffing issues - a) The Think Tank on child care workforce issues was held in Canberra on 8 and 9 April 2003.

Around fifty-six participants attended, representing all levels of government, peak child care bodies, training providers, academics and unions.

One of the key messages from the Think Tank was that the issue of child care staffing is a responsibility shared across different levels of government and the child care sector.
The Department will be working with state and territory governments to ensure that all parties that can make a difference on these issues agree to take up that responsibility.

b) Participants have been sent a copy of the recommendations and strategies put forward at the Think Tank.

The Department is currently finalising the full Think Tank report.

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