Hon Simon O'Brien asks about accommodation support figures for people with disabilities, specifically regarding vacancies, funding variations, and the number of full out-of-home residential options. Hon Adele Farina confirms the figures include vacancies and funding variations, and clarifies all options were out-of-home.

AnsweredQoN 758Legislative Council
Asked
18 October 2005
Portfolio
Disability Services

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Further to the answer given to my question of Wednesday, 12 October 2005, about the provision of accommodation support, I ask - (1) Are the figures for support options provided inclusive of the filling of vacancies? (2) Are the figures for support options provided inclusive of existing accommodation support clients who received a variation in funding levels? (3) Of the 2003-04 and 2004-05 figures of 103 and 126 support options provided respectively, how many of these were for full out-of-home residential options? Hon ADELE FARINA

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I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) Yes. (2) Yes. (3) By definition, accommodation support funding supports a person who wants to live independently in an out-of-home option. The level of support required varies from a few hours a day to 24-hour support. All options for 2003-04 and 2004-05 were out-of-home options.
(1) Are the figures for support options provided inclusive of the filling of vacancies? (2) Are the figures for support options provided inclusive of existing accommodation support clients who received a variation in funding levels? (3) Of the 2003-04 and 2004-05 figures of 103 and 126 support options provided respectively, how many of these were for full out-of-home residential options? Hon ADELE FARINA replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) Yes. (2) Yes. (3) By definition, accommodation support funding supports a person who wants to live independently in an out-of-home option. The level of support required varies from a few hours a day to 24-hour support. All options for 2003-04 and 2004-05 were out-of-home options.
(2) Are the figures for support options provided inclusive of existing accommodation support clients who received a variation in funding levels? (3) Of the 2003-04 and 2004-05 figures of 103 and 126 support options provided respectively, how many of these were for full out-of-home residential options? Hon ADELE FARINA replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) Yes. (2) Yes. (3) By definition, accommodation support funding supports a person who wants to live independently in an out-of-home option. The level of support required varies from a few hours a day to 24-hour support. All options for 2003-04 and 2004-05 were out-of-home options.
(3) Of the 2003-04 and 2004-05 figures of 103 and 126 support options provided respectively, how many of these were for full out-of-home residential options? Hon ADELE FARINA replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) Yes. (2) Yes. (3) By definition, accommodation support funding supports a person who wants to live independently in an out-of-home option. The level of support required varies from a few hours a day to 24-hour support. All options for 2003-04 and 2004-05 were out-of-home options.
Hon ADELE FARINA replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) Yes. (2) Yes. (3) By definition, accommodation support funding supports a person who wants to live independently in an out-of-home option. The level of support required varies from a few hours a day to 24-hour support. All options for 2003-04 and 2004-05 were out-of-home options.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) Yes. (2) Yes. (3) By definition, accommodation support funding supports a person who wants to live independently in an out-of-home option. The level of support required varies from a few hours a day to 24-hour support. All options for 2003-04 and 2004-05 were out-of-home options.
(1) Yes. (2) Yes. (3) By definition, accommodation support funding supports a person who wants to live independently in an out-of-home option. The level of support required varies from a few hours a day to 24-hour support. All options for 2003-04 and 2004-05 were out-of-home options.
(2) Yes. (3) By definition, accommodation support funding supports a person who wants to live independently in an out-of-home option. The level of support required varies from a few hours a day to 24-hour support. All options for 2003-04 and 2004-05 were out-of-home options.
(3) By definition, accommodation support funding supports a person who wants to live independently in an out-of-home option. The level of support required varies from a few hours a day to 24-hour support. All options for 2003-04 and 2004-05 were out-of-home options.

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