1996-1997
6.3: Rehabilitation
The 1996-97 Portfolio Budget Statements, informs Senators and Members of Parliament of the proposed allocation of resources to portfolios outcomes and their objectives and targets including the agencies within the Health and Family Services portfolio.
Objective
- To reduce the personal, social and financial cost of disability to the individual and the community by delivering high quality, cost-effective tertiary rehabilitation services to eligible consumers.
Goals
- An integrated disability employment service system responsive to the needs of people with disabilities.
- Increase the competitiveness of the Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service (CRS).
- Maximise the employability of clients.
- Minimise personal and social costs of their disabilities.
- Improve work practices, information technology support and staff communications to support improved service delivery.
Strategies
- Develop integrated funding arrangements for disability employment support and vocational rehabilitation services that:
- encourage effective, flexible and innovative service delivery based on the needs and preferences of individuals; and
- distance the Commonwealth from direct service provision by introducing a purchaser/provider split for vocational rehabilitation services.
- Establish clear and more transparent links with mainstream labour market programmes.
- Deliver high quality, cost effective tertiary rehabilitation services to eligible consumers.
- Corporatise the CRS and introduce associated measures relating to customer focus, improved financial systems, reduced overheads and increased billable hours.
- Develop a quality assurance mechanism for all Commonwealth funded disability services.
- Develop approaches to the introduction of contestability of services, ensuring preservation of "community service obligations" such as access to services in remote areas.
Performance Indicators and Targets
Effectiveness
- Number of new and non-compensable clients.
Target: Five per cent growth over the previous year. - Employment outcomes as a proportion of completed programmes.
Target: 70 per cent of completed programmes are employment outcomes.
Efficiency
- Total costs relative to outcome measures.
Target: Five per cent reduction on previous year. - Costs in relation to revenue.
Target: Five per cent reduction on previous year. - Reduction in ratio of support staff to professional staff.
Quality
- Customer and client satisfaction.
Target: 85 per cent satisfaction.
Equity
- Proportions of identified special needs groups (including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people from a non-English speaking background) participating in rehabilitation compared with the proportions in the general population.
Target: Participation appropriate to proportion in population.
Budget Measures
Savings
Restructuring of Employment Support Programmes for People with a Disability
Financial Implications
1996-97 $m | 1997-98 $m | 1998-99 $m | 1999-00 $m |
-3.1 | -3.4 | -5.0 | -6.1 |
Purpose of Measure
The purpose of the measure is to improve the efficiency, targeting and quality of client outcomes of budget funded disability services by establishing integrated, outcome based funding arrangements for disability employment support and vocational rehabilitation.Expected Implementation Strategies for Measure
This measure includes a number of strategies to enable the Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service to operate on a more commercial basis through:- corporatising the Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service;
- introducing a funder/provider split to replace the current block funding arrangements; and
- progressively introducing a competitive market for vocational rehabilitation.
Intended Impacts of Measure
This measure will put the Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service on a level playing field with private providers.Top of page
Offsetting Savings for Expansion of Multipurpose Services and Additional Funding for State Government Nursing Homes
Financial Implications
1996-97 $m | 1997-98 $m | 1998-99 $m | 1999-00 $m |
-1.7 | - | - | - |
Application of an Efficiency Dividend to Commonwealth Own Purpose Outlays and Specific Purpose Payments of a Running Costs Nature
1996-97 $m | 1997-98 $m | 1998-99 $m | 1999-00 $m |
-1.4 | -1.9 | -2.4 | -3.0 |
Across-the-Board Reduction of 2% in Running Costs
1996-97 $m | 1997-98 $m | 1998-99 $m | 1999-00 $m |
-1.9 | -1.9 | -1.9 | -1.9 |
Reallocation of Funding for Administration of Re-opening Transfers from the Commonwealth Superannuation Scheme to the Public Sector Superannuation Scheme
1996-97 $m | 1997-98 $m | 1998-99 $m | 1999-00 $m |
-0.004 | - | - | - |
Whole of Government Telecommunications Savings Initiatives
1996-97 $m | 1997-98 $m | 1998-99 $m | 1999-00 $m |
-0.05 | -0.11 | -0.13 | -0.14 |
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