Page 2689 - Week 09 - Thursday, 9 August 1990
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As an example of the type of broad initiatives that this Government is looking at, I draw the attention of the house to paragraph 2.23 of the Alliance Government's environment strategy for the 1990s where it states:
Implementation of a native species replanting scheme as part of a juvenile/youth offenders rehabilitation program is being evaluated and will be the subject of a Corrections Seminar to be held in the ACT in October 1990. Consultation on joint initiatives with the conservation movement have been initiated.
Mr Acting Speaker, Mrs Grassby mentioned the cancellation of some youth Outreach proposals that were in her compendium of proposals. I need to inform Mrs Grassby that the cancellation of those proposals came about in the context of a Commonwealth initiative to grant moneys under a special services grant for disadvantaged youth, and as part of that overall skill-share program a particular grant of $60,000 was awarded to the Work Resources Centre by the Commonwealth Government in 1990. Two staff have been engaged for the program and they will operate from Civic.
That program, I should inform Mrs Grassby, is similar to the proposed youth Outreach worker program that she tackled this Government for cancelling. In fact, there is a program under way, albeit with Commonwealth funds, for youth in the age group of 16 to 20. The target for that program for the ACT in 1990 is 65 clients. In the first six weeks of its existence 15 clients have already been assisted. The target for 1991 is expected to be 85. The staff engaged for the program are not Commonwealth employees but staff of the Work Resources Centre. Now, should a further proposed youth Outreach worker street linked program that this Government is seeking to develop jointly with the Commonwealth Government come to fruition, out of the generosity of our Treasurer sitting beside me on my left, I am sure that collaboration between those two, the Commonwealth and the Territory, will be pursued. I might add that the relationships between my Department of Community Services and the Commonwealth department are excellent. We both enjoy excellent advice from our respective youth units and I am confident that we will continue to develop new and innovative schemes and practices in this area.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
PERSONAL EXPLANATION
MR KAINE (Chief Minister): Mr Acting Speaker, I would like to make a statement as I claim to have been misrepresented.
MR ACTING SPEAKER: Please proceed.
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