Hon Cheryl Davenport questions the Health Department's decision to reduce funding for the Western Australian Network of Community Based Home Care Services. Hon Peter Foss explains the reduction is due to the completion of specific initiatives the funding supported.

AnsweredQoN 61Legislative Council
Asked
15 August 2000
Portfolio
Health

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I refer to the decision by the Health Department to reduce the funding of the Western Australian Network of Community Based Home Care Services by $15 000 for the 2000-01 financial year. On what basis will this decision be made? Hon PETER FOSS

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I thank the member for some notice of this question. A non-recurrent grant of $45 000 was approved for the Western Australian Network of Community Based Home Care Services during the 1998-99 financial year. Approximately $15 000 of this grant represented additional funding compared with the previous year's non-recurrent grant specifically for the agency to assist the Health Department of WA with the implementation of the WA safeguards policy, the national service standards instrument and a sector-wide approach to the Y2K issues. The department has now implemented these three major initiatives and, consequently, the time required for the WA Network to support the home and community care service provider sector has been significantly reduced.
Hon PETER FOSS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. A non-recurrent grant of $45 000 was approved for the Western Australian Network of Community Based Home Care Services during the 1998-99 financial year. Approximately $15 000 of this grant represented additional funding compared with the previous year's non-recurrent grant specifically for the agency to assist the Health Department of WA with the implementation of the WA safeguards policy, the national service standards instrument and a sector-wide approach to the Y2K issues. The department has now implemented these three major initiatives and, consequently, the time required for the WA Network to support the home and community care service provider sector has been significantly reduced.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. A non-recurrent grant of $45 000 was approved for the Western Australian Network of Community Based Home Care Services during the 1998-99 financial year. Approximately $15 000 of this grant represented additional funding compared with the previous year's non-recurrent grant specifically for the agency to assist the Health Department of WA with the implementation of the WA safeguards policy, the national service standards instrument and a sector-wide approach to the Y2K issues. The department has now implemented these three major initiatives and, consequently, the time required for the WA Network to support the home and community care service provider sector has been significantly reduced.

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