Financial Wellbeing Counselling Service

942 Ms STINSON (Badcoe) (19 June 2019). How many clients will transition from the Financial Wellbeing Counselling Service to a new provider on 1 July 2019? Who is the new provider or providers?

The Hon. R. SANDERSON (Adelaide—Minister for Child Protection): I have been advised:

All clients participating in the Department for Child Protection's Financial Wellbeing Program either completed their engagement prior to its closure or have been referred to other services.

The Department for Child Protection has:

directly negotiated with the Department of Human Services to invest in that department's existing state-wide financial counselling program, which funds various non-government organisations

allocated funding to Relationships Australia (SA) to support various post care support services

signed an agreement with CREATE Foundation Limited for various services, including the SORTLI app.

All new young people requiring financial counselling services will be considered for referral to one of the identified providers.