HANSARD
SITTING CALENDAR
SEARCH
LIVE BROADCAST
Hansard Dynamic Member Index
Legislative Council - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)
2021-05-26 Daily Xml
Contents
Pdf Xml

Homelessness Alliances

The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY (15:20): My question is to the Minister for Human Services regarding housing. Given the minister's comments yesterday about homelessness crisis beds, and I quote, 'We actually have increased the number of crisis beds in South Australia and those services remain,' will the minister now tell the council exactly how many crisis beds are in the system today, how many will exit after 1 July and exactly where they will be?

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (Minister for Human Services) (15:21): I thank the honourable member for his question and for the opportunity to provide some more details in relation to this matter. As I have said before, the alliance organisations were required to demonstrate through the tender process that they could cover all the service types that were in the tender and that they could deliver services to all the priority cohorts.

I will provide a bit of information. It includes generic—which I think is a terrible term but we use it anyway—adults and families; secondly, to youth, which is people aged under 25 years of age; thirdly, to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples; and, fourthly, to people experiencing domestic and family violence. Of the four regional cohorts, clearly they need to be able to provide services to those particular cohorts.

We also have the specialist domestic and family violence stream, which operates on a statewide basis with a number of organisations that would be well-known to honourable members, including such organisations as Women's Safety Services, Nunga Mi:Minar, Yarredi in Port Lincoln and a range of other providers. The successful tender alliances are currently working through a range of those details. They know what their obligations are and we will be able to provide more details in due course.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS
MEMBERS
GET INVOLVED
ABOUT PARLIAMENT
VISIT
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY
CONTACT