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Executive Summary
On 17 April 2013 at the Ithaca Hall, a workshop was convened to explore what government, social planners, resource companies and community and social service providers could do to deliver stronger services in regional Queensland.
The event was attended by thirty – six senior representatives from key organisations in these sectors across Central and Western Queensland, Mackay, Gladstone, Hervey Bay, Brisbane, Logan and the Gold Coast.
The top strategies emerging to create stronger social and community services were:
To deliver these outcomes it was suggested that the State government be approached to consider enabling Royalties for the Region funding allocated for social infrastructure to also be available to enable strategic planning sessions to occur across the four sectors in regional areas.
These sessions could reveal operational efficiencies for service delivery, enable knowledge and systems sharing, identify joint training opportunities, business partnerships, more strategic investment across a region and service incubation support
In addition local governments and resource proponents in known regions (Surat, Bowen Basin, Galilee Basin) could collaborate more at a regional level to ensure social impacts were mitigated at a regional level and that adequate support and consideration were given to the on-going delivery of social and community services. The need for data and measurement frameworks to benchmark progress in the social and community services sector was highlighted.
On 17 April 2013 at the Ithaca Hall, a workshop was convened to explore what government, social planners, resource companies and community and social service providers could do to deliver stronger services in regional Queensland.
The event was attended by thirty – six senior representatives from key organisations in these sectors across Central and Western Queensland, Mackay, Gladstone, Hervey Bay, Brisbane, Logan and the Gold Coast.
The top strategies emerging to create stronger social and community services were:
- An on-going partnership approach across the four sectors to planning for, and delivery of, social and community services
- More frequent, cross-sector collaboration for strategic regional planning
- Building the capacity within the social and community services industry for representatives to be able to strategically advocate their needs and plan with other sectors
- Development of standardised data sharing, the use of data, establishment of measurement frameworks to monitor impacts and/or track service performance
- Advocacy and advisory from state and local government on behalf of social and community service providers.
To deliver these outcomes it was suggested that the State government be approached to consider enabling Royalties for the Region funding allocated for social infrastructure to also be available to enable strategic planning sessions to occur across the four sectors in regional areas.
These sessions could reveal operational efficiencies for service delivery, enable knowledge and systems sharing, identify joint training opportunities, business partnerships, more strategic investment across a region and service incubation support
In addition local governments and resource proponents in known regions (Surat, Bowen Basin, Galilee Basin) could collaborate more at a regional level to ensure social impacts were mitigated at a regional level and that adequate support and consideration were given to the on-going delivery of social and community services. The need for data and measurement frameworks to benchmark progress in the social and community services sector was highlighted.
