2.1.3 Support for community services
Objective
- Support the delivery of settlement services through the administration of community grants.
Description
This output component supports the administered item Grants for Migrant Community Services by:
- helping funded organisations manage their work programmes, service agreements and reporting and financial accountability requirements
- provide training to help funded organisations to deliver settlement services in line with work programmes and funding agreements.
Performance
The department provided $30.8 million in grants during 2006-07 to support the settlement needs of migrants.
The department administered 210 grants under the Settlement Grants Programme (SGP) and 99 Community Settlement Services Scheme (CSSS) grants. It also provided some additional funding to 21 Migrant Resource Centres and Migrant Service Agencies (MRC/MSA) to support their CSSS grants during the transition from core funding to project funding.
The funding for SGP and CSSS grants amounted to $29.5 million, additional funding for MRC/MSAs totalled $1.2 million and another $150 000 was allocated to training.
The department consulted with the community in developing and implementing the SGP. In September 2006, national advertisements invited organisations to apply for funding under the 2007-08 funding round and 438 applications were subsequently received.