❓ Hon Stephen Dawson asks about voluntary severance applications within the Department for Child Protection and Family Support, including numbers, approvals, positions, and cost savings. The department provides detailed answers.
AnsweredQoN 722Legislative Council
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(1) I refer to staff at the Department for Child Protection and Family Support, and ask for the 2013-2014 financial year to date, how many applications for voluntary severance has the Department for Child Protection and Family Support received? (2) How many of these applications, if any, have been approved by the Public Sector Commission? (3) How many of these applications, if any, are still under consideration for approval? (4) What position did each staff member approved for severance hold? (5) Will each position becoming vacant be abolished following the severance? (6) If no to (5), how will the position be filled? (7) If yes to (5), how will the workload of the position be managed? (8) what is the location of the position of each staff member approved for voluntary severance? (9) what is the anticipated cost saving of each of the positions abolished?
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Answered
19 March 2014
Responded by
Minister for Child Protection
Response time
29 days
(1) 129
(2) 42
(3) Nil
(4) Aboriginal Practice Leader (1); Aboriginal Records Information Officer (1); Administration Assistant (3); Administration Officer (1); Business Systems Consultant (1); Child Protection Worker (1); Clerical Officer (1); Community Child Protection Worker (1); Coordinator Asset Management (1); Coordinator Financial Management Information System (1); Coordinator, Information Management (1); Corporate Support Officer (1); Customer Liaison Officer (1); Director Central Referral Team (1); Director Internal Audit and Performance Review (1); Director Programmes (1); District Director (1); Family Centre Coordinator (1); Family Resource Employee (1); Field Officer (1); Manager (3); Records Management Officer (1); Residential Care Officer (1); Screening Officer (1); Senior Child Protection Worker (4); Senior Child Protection Worker Community (2); Senior Child Protection Worker Placement Services (1); Senior Legal Officer (1); Senior Professional Manager (1); Senior Project Officer (1); Senior Secure Care Officer (1); Team Leader (3)
(5) Not necessarily. For example, in some instances another position has been abolished and a substitution has occurred. Some employees were also already awaiting placement after their positions had been abolished previously.
(6) Vacancies will be filled in accordance with the Public Sector Commissioner's Instruction Filling a Public Sector Vacancy.
(7) Where the duties are still required to be performed they will be reallocated.
(8) Albany, Geraldton x 2, Kalgoorlie x 2, Kununurra, Mandurah, Northam, Perth x 33, Wyndham.
(9) $19,172.40 (1); $20,267.60 (1); $21,260.00 (1); $27,320.00 (1); $29,761.50 (1); $54,629.60 (1); $54,640.00 (1); $56,235.60 (1); $59,523.00 (6); $68,287.00 (3); $68,938.20 (1); $74,845.00 (2); $82,764.00 (1); $87,070.00 (1); $93,726.00 (6); $101,517.00 (5); $109,280.00 (1); $114,897.00 (2); $121,013.00 (1); $132,105.00 (1); $138,895.00 (4)
(2) 42
(3) Nil
(4) Aboriginal Practice Leader (1); Aboriginal Records Information Officer (1); Administration Assistant (3); Administration Officer (1); Business Systems Consultant (1); Child Protection Worker (1); Clerical Officer (1); Community Child Protection Worker (1); Coordinator Asset Management (1); Coordinator Financial Management Information System (1); Coordinator, Information Management (1); Corporate Support Officer (1); Customer Liaison Officer (1); Director Central Referral Team (1); Director Internal Audit and Performance Review (1); Director Programmes (1); District Director (1); Family Centre Coordinator (1); Family Resource Employee (1); Field Officer (1); Manager (3); Records Management Officer (1); Residential Care Officer (1); Screening Officer (1); Senior Child Protection Worker (4); Senior Child Protection Worker Community (2); Senior Child Protection Worker Placement Services (1); Senior Legal Officer (1); Senior Professional Manager (1); Senior Project Officer (1); Senior Secure Care Officer (1); Team Leader (3)
(5) Not necessarily. For example, in some instances another position has been abolished and a substitution has occurred. Some employees were also already awaiting placement after their positions had been abolished previously.
(6) Vacancies will be filled in accordance with the Public Sector Commissioner's Instruction Filling a Public Sector Vacancy.
(7) Where the duties are still required to be performed they will be reallocated.
(8) Albany, Geraldton x 2, Kalgoorlie x 2, Kununurra, Mandurah, Northam, Perth x 33, Wyndham.
(9) $19,172.40 (1); $20,267.60 (1); $21,260.00 (1); $27,320.00 (1); $29,761.50 (1); $54,629.60 (1); $54,640.00 (1); $56,235.60 (1); $59,523.00 (6); $68,287.00 (3); $68,938.20 (1); $74,845.00 (2); $82,764.00 (1); $87,070.00 (1); $93,726.00 (6); $101,517.00 (5); $109,280.00 (1); $114,897.00 (2); $121,013.00 (1); $132,105.00 (1); $138,895.00 (4)
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