Provision of Metropolitan-Based Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence Workforce Funding to Women's Safety Services (South Australia) Ltd

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Department of Human Services (DHS) awarded a contract to Women's Safety Services (South Australia) Ltd for metropolitan-based services funded under the National Partnership Agreement – Payment 5 (the 500 Worker initiative).

The contract funded frontline workers engaged in the Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence (FDSV) specialist sector and related services (including shelters, crisis services, financial counsellors and specialist services for children), with the initiative designed on the basis that half of workers would be trainees and half fully qualified (states could fund a greater proportion of fully qualified workers and define trainee/qualified status under state frameworks).

Approved organisations were required to employ a full-time equivalent (FTE) position in response to the initiative.

Funding was required to be used to fund services that directly supported victim-survivors or to develop service capacity or capability (including emergency planning and disaster responses) and was not to be used to subsidise state government departments/agencies or infrastructure projects.

DHS also funded an NDIS worker to be placed within a domestic and family violence organisation to support NDIS clients who were victim-survivors as part of a targeted specialist support approach.