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Background to the Strategy
Since the Ministerial Advisory Arrangement (MAA), which operated from the late 1990s, was disbanded in 2002, there has been no mechanism for the SAAP sector to have input into the development of Government policy on homelessness. However regional and specific group networks have continued to operate with minimal government support.
In the absence of a state-wide networking mechanism for the SAAP sector an established regional network of SAAP providers proposed the development on a state-wide network in 2002. In 2004 this regional network successfully applied for funding from the Gambling Community Benefit Fund for a survey of SAAP services. The survey was conducted by Claddagh Consultants who prepared a feasibility study report for the development of a state-wide SAAP network. However the strategy was not progressed at this time.
In 2006 the Ministerial Roundtable process was reinstated by the then Minister Warren Pitt. In the lead-up to the 2007 Ministerial Roundtable, QCOSS and Queensland Shelter submitted a proposal to develop and implement a SAAP networking strategy. The proposal was modeled on the 2004 Claddagh report.
At the Ministerial Roundtable in April 2008, the Minister for Communities, Lindy Nelson-Carr confirmed the funding for development of a state-wide SAAP network, to be jointly managed by QCOSS and Queensland Shelter.
In the absence of a state-wide networking mechanism for the SAAP sector an established regional network of SAAP providers proposed the development on a state-wide network in 2002. In 2004 this regional network successfully applied for funding from the Gambling Community Benefit Fund for a survey of SAAP services. The survey was conducted by Claddagh Consultants who prepared a feasibility study report for the development of a state-wide SAAP network. However the strategy was not progressed at this time.
In 2006 the Ministerial Roundtable process was reinstated by the then Minister Warren Pitt. In the lead-up to the 2007 Ministerial Roundtable, QCOSS and Queensland Shelter submitted a proposal to develop and implement a SAAP networking strategy. The proposal was modeled on the 2004 Claddagh report.
At the Ministerial Roundtable in April 2008, the Minister for Communities, Lindy Nelson-Carr confirmed the funding for development of a state-wide SAAP network, to be jointly managed by QCOSS and Queensland Shelter.
