Australian Capital Territory
Financial Management (Performance Criteria) Amendment 2015 (No 7) 
Notifiable instrument NI2015-705
made under the
Financial Management Act 1996, s 19D (Amendment of performance criteria)

1	Name of instrument
	This instrument is the Financial Management (Performance Criteria) Amendment 2015 (No 7).
2	Commencement
	This instrument commences on the day after it is notified.
3	Amendment of 2015-16 performance criteria
	The performance criteria for the 2015-16 financial year is amended as set out in Schedule A.
4	Statement of reasons for amendments
The statement of reasons for the amendments is set out in Schedule B. 

Mick Gentleman MLA	Andrew Barr MLA
Minister for Children and Young People	Treasurer
   7  December 2015	  8   December 2015
Schedule A

Agency	Output Class and Output	Description of performance criteria	Targets	Action	
			2015-16
Budget papers	2015-16
Amended target		
Community Services Directorate (CSD)
	Output Class 2: Early Intervention Services
Output 2.1: Early Intervention	2.1 a. Number of group sessions	500	N/a	Target replaced	
		2.1 b. Number of Community Development/Education Programs 	150	225	Amended target	
		2.1 c. Number of families supported through the Parents as Teachers Program	160	N/a	Target replaced	
		2.1 d. Number of Parenting Assistance Sessions	N/a	1,250	Proposed Target	
		2.1 f. Cost per head of population	$63	$63.12	Amended target	

Schedule B

Section 19D of the Financial Management Act 1996 (FMA) provides that the responsible Minister and the Treasurer may amend relevant performance criteria by notifiable instrument.  Section 19D(3)(g) provides that performance criteria may be amended if “the responsible Minister and the Treasurer are satisfied that other performance criteria should be adopted for the provision of outputs by the directorate...”.
The amendment incorporates data that is based on changes in service, that are no longer practical to review the number of programs run, but rather include these in the number of Community Sessions in the group count. 

This is a similar instance with Parents as Teachers in that rather than how many families are reached, the measure will count how many times you reach those people.  Therefore, indicators ‘b’ and ‘c’ are now being counted in the same manner as ‘a’ and will be all combined to form one indicator ‘d’. 

Due to formatting issues, Accountability Indicator 2.1 ‘Cost per head of population’ had the cost rounded to the nearest whole dollar; this has also been updated in the proposed table below to reflect a more accurate amount to two decimal places.