Overview of key initiatives
The Social Development Package for Budget 2010 advances the Government's key priorities in the following areas:
- Getting people back into work
- Supporting families; and
- Building strong communities.
| Initiative | Cost over four years | |
|---|---|---|
| Employment Assistance | • 6,000 new Job Ops places in 2010/11 • Extra employment assistance • Funding to continue to pay for extra Work and Income frontline staff hired in 2009 to help reduce unemployment levels • Future Focus welfare reforms |
$26.7m * $21.8m $88.5m |
| Community Funding | • Community Response Model (CRM) Quality Services & Innovation Fund • Ring fenced fund for future family and community initiatives • Whānau Ora • Additional out of school care places for children |
$90.5m $86.6m |
| Supporting parents & their children | • 10 extra social workers in hospitals around the country taking the total to 16 • Expanding the role of teen parent coordinators to Intensive Case Managers • 10 extra teen parent intensive case managers taking the total to 19 • Seven supported houses for teen parents in high priority communities • Development of parenting support for teen fathers |
$6.60m
|
* Note - these are not four-year costs
