Commonwealth Government comments The Commonwealth welcomes the sixth Report on Government Services and the opportunity to comment on achievements in the delivery of specialist support services for people with disabilities. This Report reflects significant developments in the design and delivery of services for people with disabilities and the measurement capabilities of the efficiency and effectiveness of those services. The most fundamental change to the design and delivery of services for people with disabilities is contained in the Australians Working Together strategy. Under the Australians Working Together strategy the Commonwealth will spend more than $230 million over four years from 2001-02 providing a better deal for people with disabilities. The Commonwealth also has a number of trials and research projects underway that place greater emphasis on recognising people’s capacities, and provide the kind of individualised assistance they need to realise their potential. As part of a staged approach running to January 2005, the Commonwealth aims to provide a more effective assessment of need for people with disabilities, explore the private sector’s capacity to deliver specified vocational rehabilitation services, and match funding to the assessed needs of individuals and their outcomes. The 2000-01 and 2001-02 financial years saw the largest ever single injection of new funding for disability services to address unmet need in the areas of accommodation support and day services. The result of joint Commonwealth and State efforts has resulted in an additional $510 million nationally to fund new disability services over the last two years of the current Commonwealth-State Disability Agreement — $210 million in 2000-01 and more than $300 million in 2001-02. This included an additional Commonwealth contribution of $150 million. On 4 August 2001, all jurisdictions committed themselves to a third CSDA to be implemented by June 2002. The redevelopment of the CSDA Minimum Data Set will be a key factor in supporting better, performance reporting and accountability — two particular priorities of the next agreement. ” This Report precludes the results of the Commonwealth’s 2001 Disability Census that comprises aggregate information on service outlets (employment, advocacy, print disability, information and, from 2000, respite services) and the consumers supported by employment services. Individual consumer records on 53 427 consumers were received in 2000 that represent the volume of cl...
Commonwealth Government. Broadly speaking the FTA will have two major impacts on the Commonwealth Government:
