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CSGP (Community Service Grant Program)
Open letter to Keep Them Safe Cross Sector Peaks
From Annette Gallard, Chief Executive , Community Services
CSGP changes
Community services have proposed an historical change in the CSGP funding, splitting the current CSGP into two streams:
- services whose results have to do with ‘community strengthening’
- services provided directly to children, young people and families
WSCF has been involved in the discussions and has broad support for the new framework, with some reservations with regard to availability of growth funding to support the ‘community strengthening’ stream. click here to download the Community Services Communiqué (PDF 453KB) and the LCSA Letter to the sector, which we see as a goodoverview of the strengths and risks of the proposal.
Learn about the future for CSGP on Youtube
An updated CSGP video is currently planned and will be linked by the end of February.
Brian Smith from the Local Community Services Association (LCSA) and Mary Waterford from The Western Sydney Community Forum (WSCF) met to discuss the issues surrounding the future of CSGP funding following the Government response to the Wood Special Commission, "Keep Them Safe".
For more discussions between Brian & Mary, please go to the Forum Flash Youtube page
Report from the Wood Special Inquiry into Child Protection.
The Report was released on November 24, 2008, and is available from the DoCs website here
http://www.community.nsw.gov.au/DOCS/STANDARD/PC_101761.html
If you watch our presentations below, you will see that we recommend reading Chapters, 10, 7 and 25 for the most CSGP relevant information.
WSCF has created two YouTube videos to help us understand the report and what to do next:
Part 1
Part 2
What parts of the report should we read?
What are the main ideas in the report and what happens next?
WSCF has made a series of other videos documenting presentations and conversations with members of the CSGP Roundtable - the peak forum which is conferring with DoCS during the implementation of the CSGP Review. The videos feature Brian Smith from the LCSA, Alison Peters from NCOSS, Rey Reodica from YAPA and Mary Waterford from WSCF.
To view the rest of the videos, click here...
“Keep Them Safe” is the NSW Government’s response to the Wood Inquiry recommendations into Child Protection.
Click here for the report, (PDF 1.99MB)
This Report was released in March 2009.It has many good strategies welcomed by WSCF. Unfortunately it makes almost no reference to the Community Services Grants Program which is most frustrating to the community sector.
The CSGP Reform has been completely waylaid by the Wood Inquiry and the response there was no additional allocation in the State budget for the program.In early July we were informed that the CSGP Roundtable was to be disbanded, without consultation with the ngo members and that a new (another!) review of funding programs will follow.LCSA have written an excellent response to DoCs.
Here is the response document, (PDF 505KB)
WSCF remain hopeful that the work of the sector has raised the profile of CSGP amongst politicians and especially Minister Burney and Premier Rees. We have had some great champions for the program in our local Western Sydney politicians and will keep you infomed of future strategies. New utube videos will be available late next week.
