Budget fact sheets 2008 - Pathway to Partnership
The Government is investing an additional $446 million over the next four years in Pathway to Partnership, a multi-year plan aimed at strengthening community-based family, child and youth focused services.
This will be progressively introduced with $52 million, or 11.7% of the total funding, available in 2008/09. This is made up of $37.5 million in new funding and $15 million already allocated in the 2007 Budget. The investment will rise to $192.8 million in 2011/12.
Pathway to Partnership recognises that community-based providers of services for children, young people and families play an essential role in supporting families and making sure children and young people get the best start in life.
Pathway to Partnership will:
- move existing essential family, child and youth focused services to full funding by 2011
- address forecast volume increases
- provide for annual cost adjustment payments
- focus more on achieving outcomes
- enable providers to build workforce capability and capacity
- support organisations to work more closely together to reduce duplication and get more resources into services.
This builds on work already underway, like simplifying funding and contracting processes, moving some services to grants to reduce their compliance costs and providing multi-year funding to ensure more security for providers.
The funding is for existing contracted services with Family and Community Services, Child, Youth and Family and the Ministry of Youth Development. It is also for parenting support services currently with the Ministry of Education that will transfer to the Ministry of Social Development on 1 July. The investment also covers Ministry of Justice funded victim support and family violence perpetrator services.
