Ms Vickie Kirkpatrick:

It is interesting the Minister of State confirmed the implementation of the progressing disability services model. One issue around the implementation is adequate project management. The Senator spoke about resources. In some places, physical resources have been a significant issue such as co-location of sites, desks, computers, assessment materials and toys. These are all the pieces for a clinician to do his or her job collectively in terms of offering training to parents. It is interesting to hear this is moving forward. It is to be hoped resources will be put in place to facilitate that. It will make some of it a little bit easier and, one hopes, it will contribute to knowing what types of posts these 100 need to be and where they need to go. It is not necessarily around having additional people but having the resources and structures in place in order that the clinicians and front-line staff can meet the needs of the families and children.