Page 954 - Week 03 - Thursday, 23 March 2017
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and the community if we are to reduce over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in our criminal justice system.
The community sector plays an important role in the success of the extended through-care program. Continued discussion needs to be had on enhancing community partnerships and engagement with stakeholders to meet the needs of detainees post release in the future. These discussions also need to encompass future considerations of the capacity of community sector partners with increasing client loads, and possible efficiencies to be gained from improved partnerships.
In conclusion, Madam Speaker, the extended through-care pilot has been independently evaluated as a positive and overall successful program that can now take its place as a mature and sustainable program in the landscape of social support services. In what I have been told is a nation first, I have made the evaluation public, and I encourage interested members to look for it on the Justice and Community Safety Directorate website. I am also happy to provide direct briefings to any members who would like more information or an insight into the personal stories that sit behind the graphs and figures.
I table the following paper:
Extended Throughcare—Ministerial statement, 23 March 2017.
I move:
That the Assembly take note of the paper.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Mr Wall: On a point of order, Madam Speaker, under standing order 57, “Speaker to determine offensive words”, I note that in Mr Rattenbury’s statement there was a quote from a corrections inmate, and there have been rulings in this place previously about using offensive words even within quotes. I wonder whether you could come back to the Assembly with a ruling on that.
MADAM SPEAKER: I missed it. I will refer to Hansard, and if there are any comments to be made I will make them.
Mr Wall: I recall you taking a similar line last time.
National disability insurance scheme
Ministerial statement
MS STEPHEN-SMITH (Kurrajong—Minister for Community Services and Social Inclusion, Minister for Disability, Children and Youth, Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, Minister for Multicultural Affairs and Minister for Workplace Safety and Industrial Relations) (10.19): I am pleased to provide the Assembly today with a progress report on the implementation of the national disability insurance scheme, the NDIS, in the ACT. This is the last six-monthly
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