❓ WA Parliamentary Question regarding staffing, budget, redundancies, and potential privatisation of the Department for Child Protection and Family Support's Accommodation and Care Services Unit.
AnsweredQoN 134Legislative Council
QuestionView source ↗
DEPARTMENT
FOR CHILD PROTECTION AND FAMILY SUPPORT — ACCOMMODATION AND CARE
SERVICES UNIT
134. Hon ALANNA CLOHESY to the Minister
for Child Protection:
I ask this question on behalf of Hon Stephen Dawson, who is away on urgent
parliamentary business. I refer to the accommodation and care services
unit within the Department for Child Protection and Family Support.
(1) How many staff does this unit
currently have and where are they located?
(2) What was the unit's
budget for 2013–14 and 2014–15?
(3) Have any redundancies been made
at the unit in the last 12 months?
(4) If yes to (3), how many
positions were made redundant and what were those positions?
(5) Will the minister give a commitment
not to privatise or outsource any of the unit's existing services?
The PRESIDENT : This is a new trend that I do not want to
catch on. Hon Stephen Dawson has had two questions asked today and he is not
even in this place!
FOR CHILD PROTECTION AND FAMILY SUPPORT — ACCOMMODATION AND CARE
SERVICES UNIT
134. Hon ALANNA CLOHESY to the Minister
for Child Protection:
I ask this question on behalf of Hon Stephen Dawson, who is away on urgent
parliamentary business. I refer to the accommodation and care services
unit within the Department for Child Protection and Family Support.
(1) How many staff does this unit
currently have and where are they located?
(2) What was the unit's
budget for 2013–14 and 2014–15?
(3) Have any redundancies been made
at the unit in the last 12 months?
(4) If yes to (3), how many
positions were made redundant and what were those positions?
(5) Will the minister give a commitment
not to privatise or outsource any of the unit's existing services?
The PRESIDENT : This is a new trend that I do not want to
catch on. Hon Stephen Dawson has had two questions asked today and he is not
even in this place!
AnswerView source ↗
I thank the member for some notice
of this question.
(1) The
accommodation and care services directorate has 270.5 full-time equivalents.
Staff are located in the following areas—head office, East Perth, 16.8
FTE; fostering services at the McCall Centre, Curtin Avenue, Cottesloe, 47.6
FTE; residential care services, multiple group home locations, 178.1 FTE; and
secure care, Woodlands Road, Stoneville, 28.0 FTE.
(2) The budget for 2013–14
was $58.2 million and for 2014–15, $67.1 million.
(3) Six voluntary severances have
occurred from 1 January 2014 to 25 February 2015.
(4) Three
positions were made redundant and subsequently abolished. These were
administrative assistant, fostering services, one FTE; team leader, fostering
services, 0.5 FTE; and team leader, fostering services, 0.5 FTE.
(5) Statutory obligations require
that these services are provided by departmental staff.
of this question.
(1) The
accommodation and care services directorate has 270.5 full-time equivalents.
Staff are located in the following areas—head office, East Perth, 16.8
FTE; fostering services at the McCall Centre, Curtin Avenue, Cottesloe, 47.6
FTE; residential care services, multiple group home locations, 178.1 FTE; and
secure care, Woodlands Road, Stoneville, 28.0 FTE.
(2) The budget for 2013–14
was $58.2 million and for 2014–15, $67.1 million.
(3) Six voluntary severances have
occurred from 1 January 2014 to 25 February 2015.
(4) Three
positions were made redundant and subsequently abolished. These were
administrative assistant, fostering services, one FTE; team leader, fostering
services, 0.5 FTE; and team leader, fostering services, 0.5 FTE.
(5) Statutory obligations require
that these services are provided by departmental staff.
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