House of Assembly - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)
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Community Services

472 Ms COOK (Hurtle Vale) (29 November 2018). With reference to Sub-program 1.2: Community Services from the 2017-18 budget:

(a) Where does this sub-program and its objectives now sit within the Department for Human Services?

(b) What changes, additions, substitutions or discontinuations of community services have resulted from the machinery of government change, and what impact has this had on expenditure and FTE?

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

(a) Sub-program 1.2 Community Services from the 2017-18 budget now sits within the Department for Human Services Program 1: Communities in the 2018-19 budget papers.

(b) The machinery of government (MOG) changes transferred Multicultural Affairs to the Department of the Premier and Cabinet (DPC). As per the2017-18 budget papers, the employee expenditure and FTEs associated with the Multicultural Services Sub-program were reported in Sub-program 1.2 Community Services. The following items allocated in Sub-program 1.2 Community Services of the 2017-18 budget were transferred to Multicultural Affairs in DPC as part of the MOG change: salaries $1,325,000 comprising 11.0 FTEs, and goods and services of $163,000.