Annual Report 2002–03 Volume I
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- Quantity Number of clients assisted at 30 June 2003
- Quality—Access and choice
- Quantity Number of projects funded —170 Number of young people participating —1500 Price
- Job Placement, Employment and Training Program
- Price $18.3 million Commentary
- Effectiveness—Early intervention
- Quantity Number of people assisted
- Price $114.4 million Commentary
- Targeted Youth Assistance Program
- Price $3.1 million Commentary
- Price $0.8 million Transition to Independent Living Allowance Quantity
- Price $0.9 million Commentary
- Youth Activities Service—Family Liaison Workers Program
- Price $6.5 million Commentary
- Effectiveness—Independence
- Effectiveness—Take-up/Coverage
- Price $2 235 million Commentary
Performance informationAdministered itemsAustudy PaymentEffectiveness—AdequacyTable 9: Maximum weekly payments to recipients—as a ratio to the Minimum Federal Award Wage
Table 10: Maximum weekly payments to recipients—index of real value
QuantityNumber of clients assisted at 30 June 2003–39 092 Price$270.6 million Fares AllowanceQuantityNumber of clients assisted—4272 Price$1.3 million Green CorpsEffectiveness—CapacityPercentage of young people participating who are in further employment, education or training three months after the program is completed In education or training: 20 per cent In employment: 51 per cent. Data are for rounds 25, 26 and 27. Data for current rounds are not yet available.
78 per cent after rounds 25, 26 and 27. As at 26 April 2003, the retention rate under the new contract was 86 per cent although no rounds had yet been completed. Quality—Client satisfactionPercentage of young people completing a project who are satisfied with training provided as determined by exit surveys—93 per cent satisfaction for the most recent rounds QuantityNumber of projects funded—170 Number of young people participating—1500 Price$23.6 million CommentaryFollowing the announcement that a consortium of Job Futures and Greening Australia had been awarded the Green Corps contract for 2002 to 2005, administrative arrangements for the new contract were put in place and 170 projects were approved in 2002–03. Job Placement, Employment and Training ProgramEffectiveness—CapacityPercentage of young people participating who achieve increased readiness for employment or further study during at least a three month period under JPET 67 per cent QuantityNumber of young people assisted—14 117 Of this figure 1594 young people were from culturally or linguistically diverse backgrounds and 1985 identified as being indigenous. Table 11: Breakdown of JPET clients, 1 July 2002 - 30 June 2003
Note: a client may fall into more than one category. Price$18.3 million CommentaryIn November 2002, following complaints about the 2002 JPET Business Allocation Process (BAP), FaCS commissioned an independent review. FaCS responded positively to the review report, releasing its response, Moving Forward with the JPET Program, and making a commitment to work with the youth sector to develop a new needs analysis and procurement process for JPET. Following recommendations of the review report, FaCS has: discontinued the 2002 BAP offered existing service providers an extension to funding contracts until 30 June 2004 while a new selection process is developed established a JPET taskforce and hotline consulted widely with JPET providers and the youth sector about the review process and the way forward for the program committed departmental resources to develop a new selection process in collaboration with the youth sector and other interested parties to ensure the Government’s objective for JPET are met established internal mechanisms to review departmental processes, procedures, staff training and support to improve practices and business processes across the department undertook extensive consultations with the sector and prepared a draft selection process and needs analysis for consultation during July 2003.
ReconnectEffectiveness—Early interventionPercentage of clients with a positive change in their overall situation Of the total Reconnect participants who consented to participate in a Reconnect data collection, some 73 per cent reported an improvement in their overall situation at the end of their Reconnect support period. Table 12: Reconnect—percentage of clients with an improved level of engagement
QuantityNumber of people assisted Individual Reconnect cases—3961 Group clients—4345
Price$17.9 million Student Financial Supplement SchemeQuantityNumber of clients assisted 32928 clients at 30 June 2003. Of these, 19 868 were Youth Allowance and Austudy Payment clients, 7752 were Pensioner Education Supplement clients and the remaining were ABSTUDY clients. Price$114.4 million CommentaryThe Government will repeal the Student Financial Supplement Scheme from 1 January 2004 in response to increasing levels of bad and doubtful debt and reduced take-up of loans under the scheme. The take-up rate for the scheme has declined by 28 per cent over the past three years. This has followed the introduction of Youth Allowance and increased access to alternative commercial loan products and opportunities for students to supplement their income. Targeted Youth Assistance ProgramEffectiveness—TargetingPercentage of individual contractual milestones achieved Targeted Youth Assistance Program providers achieved their contracted performance milestones to the satisfaction of FaCS in 100 per cent of all cases in 2002–03. Price$3.1 million CommentaryThe ICYS pilots received all remaining contracted payments by the end of the 2002–03 financial year, in recognition of satisfactory performance against contracted milestones. No further payments are required during the 2003-04 year. Mentor MarketplaceQuantityNumber of young people who receive mentor support Mentor Marketplace projects began operation in June 2003. An estimated 1500 young people will receive mentor support in 2003-04. Price$0.8 million Transition to Independent Living AllowanceQuantityNumber of young people in state supported care who access TILA Delivery of TILA began in late June 2003, so no data can be reported for the 2002–03 financial year. Price$0.9 million CommentaryFaCS has developed performance indicators for organisations administering TILA. They will assist in assessing how successful these organisations have been in: making decisions based on quality information and verification accessing high priority target groups delivering TILA as part of a broader transitional support package, including transitional planning. Youth Activities Service—Family Liaison Workers ProgramEffectiveness—AdequacyPercentage of young people and YAS service providers reporting positive outcomes from participation in YAS Activities—72 per cent Percentage of young people, young peoples’ families and FLW service providers reporting positive outcomes from contact with the FLW program 74 per cent of families reported a positive outcome. QuantityNumber of contacts with young people through YAS program activities—106 146 Number of young people engaged through FLW activity—1898 Number of families engaged through FLW activity—714 Price$6.5 million CommentaryAn evaluation of the YAS and FLW programs began in June 2003. Its focus will be on the effectiveness of the YAS and FLW programs in achieving planned outcomes and the efficiency of program management, administration and service and program improvement processes. The evaluation is expected to be finalised by March 2004. Youth AllowanceEffectiveness—AdequacyTable 13: Maximum weekly payments to recipients—as a ratio to the Minimum Federal Award Wage
Table 14: Maximum weekly payments to recipients—index of real value
a. RA: Rent Assistance. Effectiveness—IndependenceNumber and percentage of Youth Allowance clients who achieved independence through workforce participation 78 128 Youth Allowance clients were assessed as independent in June 2003 because of previous workforce participation. They represented 19.5 per cent of all Youth Allowance clients and 52.4 per cent of all independent clients. Of these clients 69 414 (88.8 per cent) achieved independent status through minimum earnings, 4388 (5.6 per cent) through full-time work, 3938 (5.1 per cent) through part-time work and 388 (0.5 per cent) through a special safety net criterion. Number and percentage of Youth Allowance clients undertaking full-time or part-time study/training At 30 June 2003, 310 009 (77.3 per cent) Youth Allowance clients studied full-time. In addition, 1478 Youth Allowance clients undertook part-time study to complement their job-search activities. This group represented 1.6 per cent of non full-time students receiving Youth Allowance and indicated full time and part-time students collectively represent 77.7 per cent of all Youth Allowance clients. Over 2002–03, the proportion of clients studying full-time remained steady. Number and percentage undertaking solely job search At 30 June 2003, 56 004 Youth Allowance clients undertook solely job search, representing 13.9 per cent of the total Youth Allowance population and 61.6 per cent of Youth Allowance non full-time students. Over 2002–03, the number and proportion of Youth Allowance clients undertaking job search remained steady. Effectiveness—Take-up/CoverageNumber and percentage of all full-time students aged 16-24 years receiving Youth Allowance Comparing income support data with ABS data presents definitional problems, and there are differences in the applicable published age cohorts. However, administrative data suggest Youth Allowance clients represent around 32.6 per cent (310 009 of 952 100) of the population ‘potentially eligible’ for Youth Allowance as a full-time student.1 1. The potentially eligible population refers to all those aged 16 to 19 studying full-time, and full-time students aged 21–24 at a tertiary institution.
Effectiveness—TargetingPercentage of clients on a part rate of payment due to the parental means test At 30 June 2003, Centrelink assessed 251 056 Youth Allowance clients as dependent and subject to the parental means test. Of these 39 807 received a reduced rate due to their parents’ means, representing 9.9 per cent of all Youth Allowance clients and 15.9 per cent of dependent Youth Allowance clients. Percentage of clients with private earnings In the fortnight ending 30 June 2003, 16.1 per cent (14 618) of Youth Allowance non full-time students had private earnings. In the same fortnight, 29.9 per cent (92 681) of all Youth Allowance full-time students had private earnings. Average amount of private earnings per fortnight Table 15: Average earnings per fortnight
Percentage of non full-time students on a part rate of payment due to the personal means test In the fortnight ending 30 June 2003, 14.4 per cent (13 116) of Youth Allowance non full-time students received a reduced rate because of the personal means test. A majority (12 977) of this was due to private earnings and 139 received a reduced rate due to unearned income. QuantityNumber and percentage of clients paid supplementary payments—Rent Assistance 72 450 (23.4 per cent) of full-time students 17 593 (19.3 per cent) of non full-time students
Price$2 235 million CommentaryThe results show that more students are receiving income support since the introduction of Youth Allowance and there is a significant and sustained increase among under-18 year old income support clients in full-time education and training. Directory: sites -> default -> files files -> Answer True False 2 points Question 2 files -> Northern England’s set-jetting locations files -> Nstructions for Acquiring Excess Equipment online, through the 1033 Program files -> Occupational health and safety files -> The Black Panther Party’s Ten Point Program files -> International programs roel profile files -> Fermi Questions a guide for Teachers, Students, and Event Supervisors Lloyd Abrams, Ph. D. DuPont Company, cr&D/ccas experimental Station Wilmington, de 19880 files -> Personal Information Name: Maha Al-Ammari Nationality: Saudi Relationship Status Download 1.71 Mb. Share with your friends:
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