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  <name>House of Assembly</name>
  <date date="2021-10-12" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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  <sessionNum>2</sessionNum>
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  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
  <proceeding continued="true">
    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Homelessness Services</name>
      <text id="20211012233276834b344a16a0002842">
        <inserted>
          <heading>Homelessness Services</heading>
        </inserted>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="4978" kind="question">
        <name>Ms COOK</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Hurtle Vale</electorate>
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          <question date="2021-08-25" qonNum="719">
            <name>Homelessness Services</name>
          </question>
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        <text id="20211012233276834b344a16a0002843">
          <inserted>719 <by role="member" id="4978">Ms COOK (Hurtle Vale)</by> (25 August 2021).  Regarding homelessness services:</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20211012233276834b344a16a0002844">
          <inserted>(a)&amp;#x9;How many individual homelessness cases were handed over from previous providers to the new Toward Home Alliance in the Adelaide/southern region?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20211012233276834b344a16a0002845">
          <inserted>(b)&amp;#x9;How many people are currently employed in the Office for Homelessness Sector Integration?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20211012233276834b344a16a0002846">
          <inserted>(c)&amp;#x9;How many deaths of people sleeping rough in the CBD occurred in each month since March 2018?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20211012233276834b344a16a0002847">
          <inserted>(d)&amp;#x9;Where are the crisis beds located for the Adelaide/southern region?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20211012233276834b344a16a0002848">
          <inserted>(e)&amp;#x9;How many crisis beds are at each site?</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="1804" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. V.A. CHAPMAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Bragg</electorate>
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            <name>Deputy Premier</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Planning and Local Government</name>
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          <question date="2021-08-25" qonNum="719">
            <name>Homelessness Services</name>
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        <text id="20211012233276834b344a16a0002849">
          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="1804">The Hon. V.A. CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Planning and Local Government):</by>  The Minister for Human Services has provided the following advice:</inserted>
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        <text id="20211012233276834b344a16a0002850">
          <inserted>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.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20211012233276834b344a16a0002851">
          <inserted>There are 18.1 FTE within the Office for Homelessness Sector Integration.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20211012233276834b344a16a0002852">
          <inserted>On average, two clients are reported to have passed away each year by specialist homelessness services.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20211012233276834b344a16a0002853">
          <inserted>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. </inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
    </subject>
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