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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2002 Week 13 Hansard (21 November) . . Page.. 3983 ..
QUESTION ON NOTICE NO. 270 Attachment A
INQUIRIES, REPORTS, REVIEWS, COMMITTEES OF INQUIRY AND
TASKFORCES
(Established during 2000-2001)Agency name: Chief Minister's Department
Name of inquiry / report / review / committee / taskforce:
Board of Inquiry into Disability Services
Established: 20 December 2000
Cost: $1,323,012
Terms of Reference / Guidelines:
To inquire, in a manner which recognises the limited capacity of some persons to participate and protects individual interests, into the services for people with disability in residential care in the ACT and in particular to examine:(a) service quality, particularly the safety, dignity, well being and development opportunities for people who reside in disability services provided or funded by the ACT Government (directly or indirectly) including, but not limited to:
(i) the degree of compliance with legislative requirements and disability standards;
(ii) the degree of participation by residents, families, carers, advocates and guardians in decisions affecting them or the persons for whom they care: and
(iii) the adequacy and effectiveness of staff selection and training;
(b) service monitoring and accountability, particularly the adequacy and effectiveness of mechanisms employed by the ACT Government to ensure the quality of services, compliance with legislation and the disability standards and their efficient and effective use of government funds;
(c) consumer protection, advocacy services, complaints and appeals, particularly the adequacy and effectiveness of consumer protection and complaints and appeals mechanisms external to individual services, including the Community and Health Services Complaints Commissioner, the Community Advocate, consumer advocacy services and the Human Rights Office of the ACT; and
(d) resource allocation, in particular the adequacy, equity and efficiency of disability service funding allocation generally and, in particular:
(i) between government and non-government service providers;
(ii) between program administration costs and direct services; and
(iii) between permanent accommodation, respite and other disability services.
In the conduct of the inquiry, the Board of Inquiry shall have due regard to the functions of the Coroner pursuant to the Coroners Act 1997 in the holding of any inquest into any deaths which have occurred within a framework of services for people with disabilities referred to above.
The Board is required to report to the Chief Minister in accordance with Section 14 of the Inquiries Act 1991 by 31 May 2001.
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