In the May 2021 Budget, the Australian Government announced increased funding for Children’s Contact Services (CCS), including funding to establish 20 additional CCS across Australia.
We sought your feedback on a draft methodology to estimate demand for new CCS by Statistical Level Area Level 4 (SA4) in order to determine the location for the new CCS.
We received a total of 81 submissions to our consultation.
Responses came from across Australia and included submissions from citizens, family law professionals and service providers.
Stakeholder feedback on the draft methodology indicated:
Other feedback included:
The input we received made a substantial contribution to the final methodology used to determine the 20 locations selected.
The final methodology is based on the 3 factors that received the greatest amount of support in the consultation.
It includes a new proximity measure, and considers proximity to be the most significant factor in estimating demand. It also includes a more holistic measure of disadvantage.
The final 20 locations selected are:
Find out more about the methodology used in our report.
We currently fund 64 Children's Contact Services (CCS) across Australia for families who are unable to safely manage arrangements for the contact and changeover of their children. In the May 2021 Budget, the Australian Government announced that it would increase funding for CCS, including funding to establish 20 additional CCS across Australia.
We have developed a methodology to estimate demand for new CCS by Statistical Level Area Level 4 (SA4). We sought feedback on the draft methodology in late 2021 through a targeted survey. This feedback informed the final methodology used to select SA4s for inclusion in a grant opportunity.
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