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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2008-09-10T00:00:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-First Parliament, Third Session (51-3)</sessionName>
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  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Drug Court</name>
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        <heading>DRUG COURT</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2007-09-26" qonNum="113">
            <name>DRUG COURT</name>
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        <text id="20080910218cea66f65941b7a0000157">113 <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</by> (26 September 2007). Can the Attorney-General advise:</text>
        <text id="20080910218cea66f65941b7a0000158">1.&amp;#x9;(a)&amp;#x9;Does the Drug Court have brokerage funds for counselling services?</text>
        <text id="20080910218cea66f65941b7a0000159">
          <item sublevel="2">(b)&amp;#x9;What level of funding is available?</item>
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        <text id="20080910218cea66f65941b7a0000160">
          <item sublevel="2">(c)&amp;#x9;Which providers have received funding and how much has each received?</item>
        </text>
        <text id="20080910218cea66f65941b7a0000161">2.&amp;#x9;(a)&amp;#x9;Does the Youth Court have brokerage funds for counselling services?</text>
        <text id="20080910218cea66f65941b7a0000162">
          <item sublevel="2">(b)&amp;#x9;What level of funding is available?</item>
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        <text id="20080910218cea66f65941b7a0000163">
          <item sublevel="2">(c)&amp;#x9;Which providers have received funding and how much has each received?</item>
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      <talker role="member" id="574" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. P. HOLLOWAY</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Mineral Resources Development</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Urban Development and Planning</name>
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            <name>Minister for Small Business</name>
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        <questions>
          <question date="2007-09-26" qonNum="113">
            <name>DRUG COURT</name>
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        <text id="20080910218cea66f65941b7a0000164">
          <by role="member" id="574">The Hon. P. HOLLOWAY (Minister for Mineral Resources Development, Minister for Urban Development and Planning, Minister for Small Business):</by>  The Attorney-General has provided the following information:</text>
        <text id="20080910218cea66f65941b7a0000165">1.&amp;#x9;(a)&amp;#x9;Drug and Alcohol Services SA provides counselling for Drug Court participants and is funded for this service directly by the Department of Health. The Courts Administration Authority also receives some funding for the Drug Court from the Department of Health. A portion of these funds is used as brokerage funds for psychological services. These services are provided for participants who have complicated needs that cannot be met through counselling, such as mental health problems, personality disorders and drug addiction.</text>
        <text id="20080910218cea66f65941b7a0000166">
          <item sublevel="2">(b)&amp;#x9;About $11,000 was available in 2007-08 for these services.</item>
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        <text id="20080910218cea66f65941b7a0000167">
          <item sublevel="2">(c)&amp;#x9;UniSA Psychology Clinic is the main service provider and it received $11,760 in 2006-07. Other clinical psychologists are used occasionally. $558 in 2006-07 was remitted to Payneham Road Psychology, which is a private practice.</item>
        </text>
        <text id="20080910218cea66f65941b7a0000168">2.&amp;#x9;The Youth Court has no brokerage funds for counselling services.</text>
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