Budget 2001 Summary – Vote
Child, Youth and Family

Care and protection and Youth Justice

• Care and protection services
  Additional funding will help meet growth in demand for current and future care services. An increase in the number of care specialist staff will also be funded under this initiative, as recommended by the Brown report.

  Funding: $56 million over the next four years ($14 million each year).

• Professionalisation
  The funding addresses the Department's current difficulties in recruiting and retaining experienced social workers and building current staff capacity, and will enable work to continue on reducing unallocated cases. This initiative supports the Brown report’s recommendations about increased professionalisation and social worker registration.

  Funding: $28.8 million over the next four years.

• Children and young people with high and complex needs
  Child, Youth and Family and the Ministries of Health and Education have been working together for the past two years to ensure that children with high and complex needs receive the services and support they need, as recommended by the Brown report.

  Funding: $ 27.21 million over the next four years (includes contributions from Health and Education).

• Initiatives Maori youth at risk of offending initiatives
  Community initiatives to help prevent at-risk Maori youth from becoming offenders have received continued Government support. The South Auckland-based Wraparound programme will also receive continued funding.

  Funding: $6.196 million over the next four years ($1.549 million each year).

• Youth Suicide Case Monitoring initiative
  The cases of up to 200 clients, identified as being at moderate or serious risk of suicide, will be monitored under the new Youth Suicide Case Audit system as part of an early identification and intervention initiative. This initiative supports the Brown report’s recommendation about increased support for children and young people with high and complex needs.

  Funding: $2.8 million over the next four years ($0.7 million each year).

• Residential Services Strategy
  Funding has been provided to complete the strategy to replace older residences owned by the Department with purpose built facilities and to meet the increased demand for places.

  Funding: $62.664 million ($37.636 million operating and $25.028 million capital).

Community-based social services

• Enhanced community and voluntary sector social services
  Funding has been provided to help part-funded voluntary sector service providers manage the effects of increasing costs over recent years. Child, Youth and Family will manage this process and organisations will be compensated on a case-by-case basis.

  Funding: $15.2 million over the next four years ($3.8 million each year).

• Family service centres
  The six family service centres will continue to receive funding. These centres provide support for families in the community through the Home Instruction Programme for Pre-school and Year One Youngsters (HIPPY) and other family social services programmes.

  Funding: $6.932 million over the next four years (1.733 million each year