A WA parliamentary question on notice from 2010 seeks detailed information on staffing levels, vacancies, and co-location arrangements within the Department of Child Protection as of November 2009. The questions cover FTE allocations, vacancy status, contract types, and collaboration with WA Police in family protection units.

AnsweredQoN 1948Legislative Council
Asked
3 March 2010
Portfolio
Child Protection

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(1) As at 30 November 2009, what was the total funded full time equivalent (FTE) employee allocation by directorate and district?
(2) As at 30 November 2009, what were the vacancies in the full time equivalent (FTE) terms by directorate and district; how many of those vacancies were subject to advertising at 30 November 2009 by district, and of those not subject to advertising as at 30 November 2009, why not?
(3) As at 30 November 2009, what was the total service delivery full time equivalent (FTE) employee allocation by directorate and district?
(4) As at 30 November 2009, what were the total vacant service delivery positions by directorate and district?
(5) As at 30 November 2009, what was the total full time equivalent (FTE) case worker allocation by directorate and district?
(6) As at 30 November 2009, what was the total full time equivalent (FTE) vacant case worker positions?
(7) As at 30 November 2009, what was the full time equivalent (FTE) number of employees by directorate and district on permanent contract and on fixed term contract?
(8) As at 30 November 2009, how many DCP field officers have been co-located with WA Police staff from the family protection unit, in regional and rural offices as part of the strategy to combat family and domestic abuse?
(9) What are the co-location sites where the DCP officers referred to in (8) are situated?

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Answered
23 March 2010
Responded by
Minister for Child Protection
Response time
20 days
(1) As at 30 November 2009, there were 2,103 total funded Full Time Equivalents (FTE's).
Refer to Table 1
for the total funded FTE breakdown by directorate and district.
(2) As at 30 November 2009, there were 156.4 FTE vacancies.
Refer to Table 1
for all vacancies by directorate and district. There were 86 FTE's which were subject to advertising/pool recruitment processes.
Refer toTable 2
for a full breakdown. Of those not subject to advertising/pool recruitment processes, 18 FTE's were subject to a structural review of the positions and 52 FTE's were vacant and in the process of recruitment or being reviewed as to how best to recruit.
(3) As at 30 November 2009, the total service delivery FTE allocation was 1,037.
Refer Table 1
to see these by directorate and district.
(4) As at 30 November 2009, the total vacant service delivery positions was 90 FTE's.
Refer Table 1
to see these by directorate and district.
(5) As at 30 November 2009, the total case worker allocation was 695.5 FTE's.
Refer to Table 1
to see these by directorate and district.
(6) As at 30 November 2009, the total vacant case worker positions was 45.8 FTE's.
Refer to Table 1
to see these by directorate and district.
(7) As at 30 November 2009 to total number of permanent contract positions was 1,687 FTE's. The total number of fixed term contract positions was 265 FTE's.
Refer to Table 3
for a full breakdown by directorate and district.
(8) As at 30 November 2009, there were 15 field officers co-located with the Western Australia Police Services staff from the family protection unit.
(9) Please refer to
Table 4
for a full list of co-location sites.
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