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Adelaide City Council proposes extending the park lands dry zone for a further two years, despite warnings from drug and alcohol services that the controversial policy has failed to reduce anti-social behaviour in the city.
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South Australian welfare groups have called on the State Government to address what they say are inexcusable and entrenched realities facing low-income earners, as a Parliamentary inquiry gets underway to uncover the extent of poverty in the state.
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The South Australian Council of Social Service and Uniting Communities have urged the State Government to consider what they describe as “critical” changes to the National Energy Guarantee to protect the interests of South Australians on low incomes.
South Australia’s annual spending on out-of-home care services could soon hit $1 billion unless the State Government rethinks its child protection model, welfare groups have warned.
A major development currently under construction near Adelaide’s city centre has scrapped plans to use polyethylene cladding on the building’s façade in the wake of London’s deadly Grenfell Tower blaze.
Welfare insiders have sounded an ominous warning about the cost of implementing the Weatherill Government’s child protection reforms, amid fears the “system will collapse” under the strain of ever-increasing numbers of children in care, at double the cost per child.
The head of one of the state’s foremost welfare agencies has warned a major child protection overhaul will be “set up to fail” without fundamental systemic reform – including renewed consideration of scrapping the existing mandatory reporting framework.
