Australian Capital Territory
Financial Management (Performance Criteria) Amendment 2004 (No 3)*
Notifiable instrument NI2004-194

made under the
Financial Management Act 1996, s19D (Amendment of performance criteria) 

1	Name of instrument
	This instrument is the Financial Management (Performance Criteria) Amendment 2004 (No 3).
2	Commencement
	This instrument is taken to have commenced 26 May 2004.
3	Amendment of 2003-2004 performance criteria
	The performance criteria for the 2003-2004 financial year are amended as set out in the schedule.
4	Statement of reasons for amendments
	Section 19D of the Financial Management Act 1996 provides that the Minister may by instrument amend performance criteria.  The Administrative Arrangements 2004(No 2) NI2004-156 established the Department of Education and Training and the Office of Children, Youth and Family Support as at 26 May 2004.  The Administrative Arrangements 2004(No 3) NI2004-163 changed the name of that Office to the Office for Children, Youth and Family Support as at 29 May 2004.  The effective date for the amendment of the performance criteria is therefore 26 May 2004.

		Katy Gallagher  MLA
		Minister for Education and Training

		29 June 2004

Schedule

Department	Output Class and Output	Description of performance criteria	Targets	
			2003-04
Budget papers	2003-04
Amended target up to and including 25 May 2004	
					
2003-04 Budget papers:
Department of Education, Youth and Family Services

Following Administrative Arrangements Orders of 26 May 2004, renamed:
Department of Education and Training	2003-04 Budget papers:
Output Class 4:  Children’s, Youth and Family Services

Output 4.1:  Office of Child Care	Quantity 
Occasions of licence administration and compliance monitoring 

Number of contracts administered.
	
900

17
	
811

17	
	
	Quality/Effectiveness 
Customer satisfaction with the Office of Child Care 

Funded organisations’ satisfaction with contract administration.	
95%

95%	
95%

95%	
		Timeliness 
Completed child care service applications approved by required date.

Contract payments dispersed within contracted timeframes.	
97%

97%
	
97%

97%	

	Cost 
Cost per occasion of licence administration and compliance monitoring	
$1  058
	
$1  061
	
Department	Output Class and Output	Description of performance criteria	Targets	
			2003-04
Budget papers	2003-04
Amended target up to and including 25 May 2004	
	Output 4.1:  Office of Child Care (cont.)	TOTAL COST ($’000)	$3  872.1	$3  350.9 	
		GOVERNMENT PAYMENT FOR OUTPUT ($’000)	$3  303.2	$2  864.7	
	Output 4.4:  Support for Young People	Quantity 
Total number of youth service contracts administered.

Number of students who attend the Adolescent Day Unit program.	
26

20	
26

14	
		Quality/Effectiveness 
Funded organisations’ satisfaction with government contract administration.

Satisfaction with Youth Connection Youth Work Service as measured by annual survey.

Achievement of personal goals by Adolescent Day Unit students.	
80%

90%

80%	
80%

90%

80%	
		Timeliness 
Requests for Youth Connection Youth Worker assistance assessed within seven working days.

Individual work program developed for Adolescent Day Unit students with two weeks of admission

Contract payments disbursed within contracted timeframe	
90%

95%

95%	
90%

95%

95%	
Department	Output Class and Output	Description of performance criteria	Targets	
			2003-04
Budget papers	2003-04
Amended target up to and including 25 May 2004	
					
	Output 4.4:  Support for Young People (cont.)	Cost 
Cost per student attending Adolescent Day Unit program.	
$17  071	
$22  070	
		TOTAL COST	$5  512.8	$4  819.6	
		GOVERNMENT PAYMENT FOR OUTPUT ($’000)	$5  395.0	$4  679.6	
	Output 4.5:  Youth Justice	Quantity
Number of custody days used annually.

Number of youth on community based orders.

Number of custody days used by youths with special needs.

Number of court reports and assessments. 

Number of community clients accepted into community well being programs.	
5  500

280

4  000

950

30	
4  959

280

3  607

857

24	
		Quality/Effectiveness
Community service orders completed.	
85%	
85%	
		Timeliness
Court reports and assessments meet timeframes set by the Children’s Court.	
95%	
95%	

Department	Output Class and Output	Description of performance criteria	Targets	
			2003-04
Budget papers	2003-04
Amended target up to and including 25 May 2004	
					
	Output 4.5:  Youth Justice (cont.)	Cost 
Average cost per custody day.

Average cost per community client receiving community well being programs per annum.

Cost per community based client per day.
	
$833

$9  415

$16	
$836

$10  757

$9	
		TOTAL COST	$5  823.6	$5  039.5	
		GOVERNMENT PAYMENT FOR OUTPUT ($’000)	$5  657.2	$4  913.1	
	Output 4.6:  Care and Protection Services	Quantity
Reports of concern about children and young people.

Reports requiring appraisal.

Days of substitute care used annually.	
2  800

1  000

82  743	
3  028

1  081

102  124	

Department	Output Class and Output	Description of performance criteria	Targets	
			2003-04
Budget papers	2003-04
Amended target up to and including 25 May 2004	
					
	Output 4.6:  Care and Protection Services (cont.)	Quality/Effectiveness
Referrals proceeding to contact by Schools as Communities Program.

Appraisals of reports completed as a percentage of those reports able to be completed in a particular reporting period.

Children admitted to out of home care in the previous year with 2 or less placements following admission.	
75%

90%

75%	
75%

90%

75%	
		Timeliness
Timeframes met for appraisal of reports depending on the level of suspected risk to the child:
. within 24 hours
. within 7 days
. within 21 days	

90%
85%
85%	

90%
85%
85%	
		Cost
Average cost per substitute care day.	
$146	
$163	
		TOTAL COST	$17  096.2	$21  181.4	
		GOVERNMENT PAYMENT FOR OUTPUT ($’000)	$17  003.5	$21  151.6	
	Output 4.7:  Family Support Services	Quantity
Total number of service contracts administered within the Family Support Program	
19	
19	
Department	Output Class and Output	Description of performance criteria	Targets	
			2003-04
Budget papers	2003-04
Amended target up to and including 25 May 2004	
					
	Output 4.7:  Family Support Services (cont.)	Quality/Effectiveness
Funded organisations’ satisfaction with government contract administration.	
80%	
80%	
		Timeliness
Contract payments disbursed within contracted timeframes.	
95%	
95%	
		Cost 
Cost per 1,000 head of ACT population.	
$8  630	
$7  744	
		TOTAL COST	$2  799 8	$2  512.2	
		GOVERNMENT PAYMENT FOR OUTPUT ($’000)	$2  792.4	$2  500.8	

	

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