Budget 2006-07
The Queensland Government has continued its record spending to protect Queensland's abused and neglected children, delivering a massive $503.1 million operating budget to the Department of Child Safety in 2006-07.
This year's budget, announced on 6 June 2006, is almost three times more than was allocated for child protection just three years ago, and a $109 million (28 percent) increase on last year's budget.
Highlights of the 2006-07 budget include:
- Foster care
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- $6 million to address the increased number of children entering general foster care, as well as the growth in kinship carers and planned support for foster carers.
- Care options for children with complex needs
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- $10 million to secure further placement options for children in care with complex and extreme needs.
- Therapeutic services
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- $4 million in capital in 2006-07 and $3.4 million recurrently, starting in 2007-08, to establish and run two residential therapeutic services in South-East Queensland.
- Frontline staffing
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- $7.6 million to employ 50 new frontline Child Safety staff, and to attract, recruit and retain frontline staff in regional, rural and remote Queensland.
- Information technology
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- $19.1 million operating funds and $8.9 million capital funds to continue the rollout of the Integrated Client Management System (ICMS) and other information technology initiatives.
- Accommodation expansion
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- $18.2 million to continue the statewide expansion of child safety service centre accommodation for frontline staff.
- Indigenous
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- $2.6 million to develop service delivery hubs in remote Indigenous communities, and $810,000 in capital funding to support the hubs.
- An additional $3 million to support Indigenous Recognised Entities, bringing total funding for Recognised Entities to $15.6 million in 2006-07.
- Family reunification
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- $3.1 million to extend the network of family reunification services for children in care.
- Sexual abuse counselling
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- $800,000 to expand sexual abuse counselling services for children in care.
Ministerial media statements
- $17.2 M. for therapeutic services for at-risk children
- Budget delivers more care options for abused children
- Foster care boost in Child Safety budget
- New child safety service centres announced in budget
- New frontline staff to boost child protection
- More support for sexual abuse counselling
- Record spending for Queensland's vulnerable children
- Last updated
- 6 June 2008
