Homelessness Services

719 Ms COOK (Hurtle Vale) (25 August 2021). Regarding homelessness services:

(a) How many individual homelessness cases were handed over from previous providers to the new Toward Home Alliance in the Adelaide/southern region?

(b) How many people are currently employed in the Office for Homelessness Sector Integration?

(c) How many deaths of people sleeping rough in the CBD occurred in each month since March 2018?

(d) Where are the crisis beds located for the Adelaide/southern region?

(e) How many crisis beds are at each site?

The Hon. V.A. CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Planning and Local Government): The Minister for Human Services has provided the following advice:

The Toward Home Alliance worked with existing homelessness providers to advise clients of the new homelessness services available across South Australia and to support a smooth transition to the new service providers.

There are 18.1 FTE within the Office for Homelessness Sector Integration.

On average, two clients are reported to have passed away each year by specialist homelessness services.

Toward Home support clients in crisis accommodation options in the Adelaide CBD and across the southern metropolitan region. The number of crisis beds in the region remains unchanged from previous years.