Community Corrections

22 Nov 2007 questionsarchive

Question put forward to the Hon. CARMEL ZOLLO (Minister for Emergency Services, Minister for Correctional Services, Minister for Road Safety, Minister Assisting the Minister for Multicultural Affairs) regarding Community Corrections.

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (26 September 2007).

1. Does Community Corrections have brokerage funds for counselling services?

2. What level of funding is available?

3.  (a) Which providers have received funding; and

    (b) How much has each received?

The Hon. CARMEL ZOLLO (Minister for Emergency Services, Minister for Correctional Services, Minister for Road Safety, Minister Assisting the Minister for Multicultural Affairs): I am advised:

The Department for Correctional Services does not presently use brokerage funding for the provision of counselling services through Community Corrections. It may however, consider this possibility in the future.