Federal budget raises spectre of youth poverty, homelessness

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0022ISSN 1445-8403
Newsletter of the
Youth Affairs Council of Victoria (YACVic)
Volume 15 | Edition 2 | JULY 2014
Federal
budget raises
spectre of
youth poverty,
homelessness
Jessie Mitchell |
Manager, Policy & Projects, YACVic
The 2014 federal budget has been greeted with
deep concern for its likely impact on young people.
While containing some positive items about
mental health and young carers, the budget as a
whole looks set to reduce young people’s access to
income support, education and training, making
a rise in youth poverty, crime and homelessness a
real danger.
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IN THIS ISSUE
• Federal budget raises spectre of youth poverty, homelessness
• AYAC defunded
• YACVic Vollies: Sophie
• The inaugural Kooie Youth Summit a runaway success
• Introducing the YRG 2014: part two
• What youth diversion in Victoria needs now
• Putting the spotlight on interns: Interns Australia
• VicSRC: Congress 2014
Youth Affairs Council of Victoria  Yikes | 1
Contents
CEO’s Editorial
1 / Federal budget raises spectre of youth poverty,
homelessness
3 / Around the office
6 / AYAC Defunded
6 / YACVic Vollies: Sophie
7 / HEY Project Partner: Diversity Project
8 / The inaugural Kooie Youth Summit
10 / Introducing the YRG 2014: part two
12 / What youth diversion in Victoria needs now
14 / Policy update
16 / Putting the spotlight on interns: Interns Australia
17 / Victorian Youth Mentoring Alliance closes its doors
18 / VicSRC Updates: regional conferences and
Congress 2014
20 / Hansard Hound
About YACVic
The Youth Affairs Council of Victoria Inc. (YACVic) is the
peak body and leading policy advocate on young people’s
issues in Victoria.
The main functions of YACVic are to make
representations to government and to serve as an
advocate for the interests of young people, workers
with young people and organisations that provide direct
services to young people. YACVic’s resources are primarily
directed towards policy analysis and development
through consultation with its constituency. YACVic also
resources the information needs of its members through
regular updates and by facilitating networking within and
beyond the Victorian youth sector.
YACVic is governed by a volunteer Board and managed
by a paid secretariat.
2 | Youth Affairs Council of Victoria  Yikes
Winter’s icy grip is firmly on us as I write this
mid-year Yikes editorial. There’s a lot in this issue
that will warm your heart, however. We’ve got great
updates from the Koorie Youth Council (KYC) on their
recent Summit (check out pages 8 and 9); we detail
the great conferences the VicSRC have been holding
around the state on pages 18 and 19 and we profile an
interesting organisation aimed at promoting the rights
of interns in Australia (check out page 16). There’s a
thought-provoking article from Kate Colvin on youth
diversion on pages 12 and 13 and some not so great
news about the potential impact of the federal budget on
pages 1 and 5. I’ve been quite surprised at the number
of members calling and making personal approaches
to me with their concerns about the potential impact
of the federal budget on young people. This year, more
than any other I’ve witnessed, we’ve had members raise
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YACVic acknowledges the support
of the Victorian Government.
Around the office
it with us, and ask the question, ‘What are we going to
do to respond?’. In light of this YACVic is co-hosting a
forum on the federal budget with VCOSS, the Centre for
Excellence in Child and Family Welfare and the Council
to Homeless Persons. This half day forum will have guest
speakers on the defunding of Youth Connections, the
impacts of that at the state level and the slated changes
to income support for young people. I urge you to come
along details of the forum and how to register can be
found on page 5.
I’m delighted to announce that YACVic will partner
with the VLGA again this year to hold the READYS.
‘READYS’ stand for Recognise Excellence Awards in
Youth Service Delivery. Last year we had a great number
of organisations and individuals nominate for the three
award categories. This year we are hoping for even more.
Nominations open on the 7th of July and close in late
August, so you’ve got lots of time to think about who
to nominate! Winners will be announced at YACVic’s
annual general meeting on October 9th. Let’s hope the
next time I write the Yikes editorial the weather will be a
little warmer! See you all soon.
Georgie Ferrari
Chief Executive Officer
[email protected]
In this issue of Yikes we’re sad to say goodbye to Clare
Waldron, who has been passionately coordinating the
Victorian Youth Mentoring Alliance (VYMA) for the last
two years. The VYMA has ceased operations—you can
read about it on page 17. Clare leaves us for greener
pastures in the mental health sector.
And we are excited to welcome back our other
Claire, Claire East, who will re-join YACVic in order
to complete a digital project to archive the best of
the VYMA’s vast and valuable resources, to ensure
they continue to be accessible online into the future.
Keep an eye for news of the project—to be called ‘the
Mentoring Hub’—over the next 12 months.
Empowering young Victorians with
disabilities to know and defend their rights
www.youthdisabilityrights.org.au
Another gem from Yerp:
Get support: Staying stress-free
www.yerp.org.au
Sometimes it can be hard to stay
involved in something, particularly if it
feels like outcomes are taking a while
to happen. Life often has bumps to deal
with, so stay stress free by looking after
yourself and the people around you.
Find more here: yerp.yacvic.org.au/get-support/
for-young-people/staying-stress-free
Federal budget raises spectre of
youth poverty, homelessness.
From page 1
Income support
Unemployed young people under the age of 30 will now
have to wait six months before receiving any income
support, which will only be available if they take part in
‘Work for the Dole’ (the original waiting period may be
reduced for those who have previously been employed).
After six months of support, if they have not found
a job, they will be cut off for another six months. The
arrangement will affect both new and existing recipients
of Newstart and Youth Allowance.
The eligibility age for Newstart will rise from 22 to
24 years for new applicants. Young people in this age
bracket must access Youth Allowance instead; around
$48 less per week.
The Government will introduce compulsory activities
for recipients of the Disability Support Pension (DSP)
aged under 35 who have an assessed work capacity of at
least eight hours a week, and will reassess DSP recipients
in this cohort who were granted eligibility between
2008-11. This is likely to result in some young people
with disabilities being moved onto Newstart or Youth
Allowance instead, which could mean a reduction in their
income of $166 a week.
Employment
will have to repay their HELP loans sooner, after the
income threshold was lowered to $50,638, and are likely
to be hit with higher interest rates.
While there will be an increase in scholarship funds for
disadvantaged students, and a welcome provision of
$3 million for a bursary program for young carers, the
overall picture is a worrying one for young people.
Concerns are also being raised that the Government’s
refusal to fund the Gonski reforms beyond their first
four years will result in poorer outcomes for schools.
And while continued support has been pledged to
the school chaplaincy program—$243.8 million over
five years—it is unclear on what basis this decision
was made, at a time of tight resources and given the
program’s controversial reception.
Health
YACVic welcomes the Government’s commitment
of $14.9 million over four years to establish ten new
headspace sites around Australia and evaluate the
headspace program. Also welcome is the pledge of $18
million to the Orygen Youth Health Research Centre, to
establish and run a National Centre for Excellence in
Youth Mental Health.
However, GPs remain a critical local source of support,
including in relation to mental health. It would
be a shame if young people—a group notoriously
apprehensive about seeking medical help—were
discouraged from doing so. To this end, we are concerned
that a $7 co-payment will be introduced for GP services,
out-of-hospital pathology and X-rays. Concession card
holders and children will also pay this fee, capped to ten
services per year. A $5 co-payment will be introduced for
medicines on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
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In light of the ‘learn or earn’ discourse used to justify
restricting income support to young people, it is highly
concerning to see a reduction in programs which helped
young people into jobs. Funding will cease to Youth
Connections, which provides career counselling and
support to early school leavers (a group highly vulnerable
to unemployment). Funding will also cease to the
Local Learning and Employment Networks (LLENs),
which provide partnership brokerage between schools,
vocational providers, businesses and communities. As
no further funding to the LLENs was promised in the
Victorian state budget, fears are being expressed for the
future of these valuable bodies.
We note the commitment of $115 million to extend the
National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness for
2014-15, and await details about what support will occur
beyond this. $3.1 million has been withdrawn from the
National Homelessness Research Strategy.
Education
Advocacy for young people
Caps on university course costs will be removed from
2016, enabling universities to set their own fees. It
seems likely that the cost of many degrees will rise
significantly. The Commonwealth government’s
contribution to degree costs will also decline by around
20% from 2016, with changes from 2020 which will
mean students pay a greater share of the cost. Graduates
The Australian Youth Affairs Coalition, the national peak
body for young people and the youth sector, has received
no funding to continue. This will make it harder to keep
the big issues affecting young people on the national
and public agenda, or to get the youth sector working
together Australia-wide. To show your support for AYAC
and help kick-start their new model, see www.ayac.org.au.
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What is YACVic doing about this?
YACVic issued a statement to our members in late May voicing our strong concern about the federal budget and
its potential impacts on young people. This was emailed to all of our members and can be found on our website at
www.yacvic.org.au
We have also written to Sen. Scott Ryan, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Education, who has
responsibility for the youth portfolio at the federal level. In our letter to Sen. Ryan we expressed our strong concern
at some the recent budget initiatives, particularly the axing of Youth Connections, the changes to income support
for young people, the changes to the school chaplaincy program to restrict eligibility only to religious based
organisations and the discontinuation of funding to the national youth peak body, AYAC. We have sought a meeting
with Sen. Ryan to discuss our concerns further.
We will also seek a meeting with the State Minister for Youth to discuss how the proposed changes at the federal
level will impact on young Victorians.
YACVic will work closely with the 31 regions in Victoria where Youth Connections were delivered to continue
advocacy for this program. We also think it is vital that the impacts of abolishing this program are monitored and
recorded with the government.
YACVic will continue to support the work of AYAC. For more information about AYAC’s defunding see page 6
of this issue of Yikes.
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Registrations via
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Venue: The Queen Victoria Women’s Centre
Date: Thursday, July 17th
Time: 1-5pm (afternoon tea provided).
Speakers: Rebekha Sharkie, Executive Officer of the National Youth
Connections Network. Other speakers to be confirmed.
Cost: Free to members of YACVic, VCOSS, CHP and/or The Centre for
Excellence in Child and Family Welfare, $25 for non-members.
AYAC Defunded
The Australian Government has confirmed that
AYAC’s funding will not continue after 1 July
2014. In spite of this, AYAC remains committed
to serving the youth affairs field by providing an
independent national voice and strengthening the
youth sector.
The AYAC Board have decided to keep the
organisation going through a devolved model that
will see the employment of a part time national
coordinator and volunteers across the country
contributing to the important work of a national
youth peak body.
The AYAC board believe now, more than ever
before, the need for a national voice for young
people and the sector that supports them is vital.
As the unintended consequences of harsh income
support measures hit vulnerable youth populations
across Australia we need to be able to raise the
issue, voice concerns and alert both politicians
and the public to the plight of unemployed and at
risk young people.
However, we need your help to kickstart our new
model and achieve future sustainability. Head to
www.chuffed.org/project/support-ayacs-future to
show your support!
Please take the time to do what you can
to ensure our ongoing sustainability—now
more than ever Australia needs AYAC as a
strong voice for young people.
Sophie
What have you been doing while at YACVic?
I have been assisting with the HEY grants, and
specifically helped organise an event last year (HEY Day)
looking at the youth sector’s capacity in supporting the
mental health and wellbeing of same sex attracted and
sex and gender diverse (SSASGD) young people.
What are two surprising things you have learnt
since volunteering at YACVic?
1. A copious amount of work goes into organising
an event.
2. Excel is really hard.
What has been your highlight while
volunteering?
Getting to constantly be around people who are
committed to making positive differences for young
people in both a larger cultural context and on an
individual level. It is really inspiring. I’ve been lucky
enough to meet people who are actively involved in
making positive impacts on the lives and wellbeing of
young people.
Sum up YACVic in three words or less
Super flipping radical!
Any further comments?
Volunteering at YACVic has been a really rewarding and
special experience and I feel very privileged to have been
given such an amazing opportunity.
HEY Project Profile
YACVic is proud to be a partner in the HEY Project. Funded by the Victorian Government to the tune of $4m over four years,
the HEY Project aims to bring together a number of key state-wide and place-based services that work to improve the mental
health and wellbeing of same sex attracted and sex and gender diverse young people. The HEY Grants are offered as part of the
broader HEY project. To find out more about the HEY Project check out this short video: http://bit.ly/1enp212
The Diversity Project aims to create a safer, more
inclusive, and healthier community for young
people aged 10–25yrs in the City of Greater
Shepparton (& beyond) who are same-sex
attracted, intersex, trans* and/or gender-diverse
(SSAITGD). The Project has just been granted
$215,000 from the Victorian Government to
allow its work to continue for 2014-15.
Funded by Victoria’s Department of Health, the project
has two components. The first provides support for
young people whose access to appropriate health,
education and housing are impacted by homophobia,
or who, as a result of ‘coming out’ have suffered
relationships breakdown and/or discrimination.
Intensive support and case management is available
to young people whose physical and mental health has
been adversely affected by such discrimination. The
second component is geared toward health promotion,
where resources are produced and offered to schools,
clubs, volunteer groups, health and community welfare
providers to create more inclusive spaces, combat
homophobia, and help young people feel safe to talk
openly about their sexuality and gender with respect
to their health, education or economic needs. The
Diversity (SSAITGDYP social-support) Group continues
to run fortnightly alongside both components of
the Project. The Department of Health calls it the
Same-Sex Attracted and Gender-Questioning Youth
Support Program. We at UnitingCare Cutting Edge call
it, simply, the ‘Diversity Project’. It aims to make the
City of Greater Shepparton (and beyond) a safe place
for all people, free of homophobia and discrimination.
Moreover, the Project works to ensure that young people
grow and develop while feeling safe to talk about their
feelings, thoughts and identities, and seek the right help
when they need it. If you would like to know more
about the Diversity Project, please contact us
via Facebook or phone 03 5831 6157 or visit
www.diversityproject.org.au or www.ucce.org.au
A bunch of young people share their stories. The eight
attitudes associated with the Riddle scale of homophobia
are drawn upon as the young people’s voices ‘emerge’,
sharing their real life experiences (of loss & love, abuse
and praise, hatred and hope, isolation and equality,
vulnerability and strength), in the hope that the
broader community will experience these short films,
and then ‘think about it’. View the videos at www.
thinkaboutitproject.org.au
The Inaugural
Koorie Youth
Summit 2014
On the 7-8 May 2014, the Koorie Youth Council
(KYC) hosted the inaugural Koorie Youth Summit
at Rydges Bell City, Preston.
The Summit was a tremendous success with over 120
young Indigenous delegates in attendance from all
corners of the state. The purpose of the Summit was
to connect like-minded young Koorie people to gain
inspiration from one another, through expressing
their passions and ideas in positive and empowering
environment.
“Thanks so much for providing
us with a common ground to
share a passion and improve
our culture”.
The program across the two days encompassed two high
profile key note speakers, Benson Saulo (NIYLA Director)
and Richard Frankland (renowned filmmaker), both
speaking about the roles and challenges of young people
today, using traditional values in a contemporary society
to lead positive change.
The program included a panel discussion on youth-led
initiatives in Victoria and a selection of workshops including:
young Koories in business, world Indigenous rights, positive
use of social media, and how to create change.
Delegates also had the opportunity to have their say on
key issues and policy directions of the State Government
including; youth addiction to ‘ice’ (methamphetamine)
in our communities, and improving the provision of
education in Victoria for Koorie students.
The KYC had incredible feedback from delegates who
attended the Summit . With 100% of delegates indicating
that they would attend the event again next year, the
KYC are extremely eager to hold the second Koorie Youth
Summit in 2015.
‘The Summit is definitely the
best youth focused event I have
been to! What an inspiring two
days spent with deadly young
Koories from over Victoria!
There is nothing better than
being educated by our own mob
through wisdom and experience!”
“I will be walking away today
feeling inspired about being
involved with my mob”.
KYC Summit 2014 participants.
koorieyouth.com.au
In this issue of Yikes, we continue to profile
YACVic’s Youth Reference Group (YRG).
Ricci Marks
Aboriginal Young
Achiever Award
The KYC co-hosted the prestigious Ricci Marks
Award as part of the Koorie Youth Summit
Gala Dinner for the very first time.
The award was attended by over 250
guests who were on hand to celebrate the
achievements of the two worthy recipients
who have demonstrated outstanding
leadership in their community.
The YRG is a group of diverse young advocates
who work with YACVic to take action on
issues facing young people in Victoria. The
YRG represents YACVic’s young members and
promotes young people’s interests to policymakers, politicians and the media. The group
meets every month at YACVic to discuss
priorities and plan projects.
Enjoy meeting the rest of our YRG—2014 is
proving to be a big year for them!
The YRG 2014
This year’s recipients, Will Austin (17,
Daylesford) and Lucy Rose Doolan (24,
Mildura), both received a $5,000 bursary from
the Office of Aboriginal Affairs, Department
of Premier and Cabinet.
The Award recognises the achievements of all
31 nominees, showcasing the depth of quality
young leaders and role models in the Victorian
Koorie community.
The Gala dinner also featured performances
by the Fighting Gunditjmara dance group,
solo Koorie artist Benny Walker and X-Factor
finalist Ellie Lovegrove.
Jess Dumble
I’m Jess, 23, and a medical student. I’m the YRG political
correspondent, which means I not only sit on the YRG,
but I also have a seat on Involve, the Minister for Youth
Affairs’ Advisory Committee. This year, the YRG will be
putting youth mental health back on the agenda—and
that’s why 2014 is going to rock!
Cassandra Prigg
From left to right: Lucy Rose Doolan, Ricci Marks Award winner;
Ngaree Blow, encouragement award winner; the Hon. Tim Bull,
Minister for Aboriginal Affairs; and Will Austin, Ricci Marks
Award winner.
My name’s Cass, I’m 19 and currently studying in
Melbourne. I joined the YRG because I believe that young
people deserve a strong, independent voice on issues
that matter to them. 2014 is going to be a big year for us,
going towards an election we’ll be campaigning on those
issues to make sure the young people of Victoria get the
political representation they deserve.
Andriana Mantzouranis
Hi, I am Andriana Mantzouranis. I’m 24 years old and
this will be my third year on the YRG and my first as
policy officer. I am a product planner at Holden and I
love my cars, politics and coffee. This year will be the
year where we will showcase what a group of talented,
enthusiastic and determined young people can do.
Morgan Cataldo
Morgan Cataldo is 26 and in her third year with the YRG.
Her role for the past two years was that of policy advisor,
though this year she has stepped into one of the co-chair
roles and is also a member of the YACVic board.
Morgan is completing a bachelor of applied social science,
majoring in counselling with the Australian College of
Applied Psychology. She works at the Melbourne City
Mission. She is passionate about women’s affairs, mental
health & wellbeing, homelessness and advocating for the
rights of young people.
Sam McClelland
Hi, I’m Sam McClelland, I’m 19, and in my second year of
arts/law at Monash, majoring in politics. I am the young
media spokesperson for the YRG which means that I
get the awesome job of being the first point of call if the
media wants to talk to a young person at YACVic. I also
have a position on the YACVic board of governance. I’m
excited to be building the profile of the YRG throughout
2014, and connecting with our YACVic young members.
Robina Ali
My name is Robina Ali. I am from Afghanistan and I
belong to the Hazara community. I have been living in
Australia for four years and I am studying year 12 at
Dandenong High School. I am a general member of the
YRG. 2014 is going to be a great year because this is my
first year in YRG, exploring new ideas, working with new
people and getting to be a voice for young people.
Jess Moyle
Jess Moyle joined the YRG as the first rural and regional
representative because she believed it was important
that the YRG consider the position of non-metro young
people. Originally from Echuca, she moved to Geelong
to study arts/law and will graduate in 2015. She is
looking forward to taking on the challenge of being a
co-chair this year and is excited to be collating the views
expressed by young people at Youth Untitled into a
report to present to the State Government in the lead up
to the election this year.
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What youth diversion
in Victoria needs now
WRITTEN BY Kate Colvin | Manager of Policy, Jesuit Social Services
This speech was made by Kate Colvin at
the youth diversion launch in April and is
reproduced here with her kind permisson.
Victoria leads the way.
A fact about Victoria that is not well known
is that we have an incredibly strong youth
justice system.
This is a testament to the bi-partisan support that exists
for taking a sensible approach to young people who
commit crimes. For over a decade the focus has been on
supporting young people to address the issues that drive
their offending: whether that’s drug and alcohol issues,
mental illness or very troubled family lives.
There has been investment in improving the systems
that support young people in contact with justice:
SupportLink has given police a tool to refer vulnerable
young people to services; the Youth Referral and
Independent Person Program provides young people who
need it with a trained independent person to accompany
them to a police interviews, and we have relatively high
rates of cautions and low level court orders.
Victoria has also led the way with a hierarchy of diversion
programs which provide diversion opportunities at three
levels: before a young person even gets to court; in court,
but before a plea is entered; and after a young person has
pleaded guilty.
1. Pre-court diversion is when the police deliver a
caution or refer a young person to support programs,
such as the Youth Support Service.
2. Pre-plea diversion is for young people appearing in
court for lower order offences and involves diversion
to a ROPES program or Right Step, if these are
available. Like a caution or Youth Support Service
referral this results in no criminal record.
3. Thirdly we have diversion for young people at risk of
getting placed on supervision or in detention—that
means they may have appeared in the court on a
few previous occasions or been charged with a more
serious offence. At this point if they plead guilty, the
Magistrate can refer them to Youth Justice Group
Conferencing, or to a formal deferral of sentence.
This suite of programs, alongside investment that
has happened in intensive support for young people
on supervision or exiting youth detention, has been
enormously successful. The latest Australian Institute
of Health and Welfare report on youth justice revealed
significant drops in the rates of young people 10-17
under supervision in Victoria from 19.4 per 10,000 in
2010-11 to 16.1 per 10,000 in 2012-13; and of young
people in detention from 1.4 to 1.2 per 10,000.
These figures reflect far lower rates of youth supervision
and detention than other Australian jurisdictions: The
national average for supervision is 23.8 per 10,000,
compared to Victoria’s 16.1—and that national average
doesn’t include the Northern Territory and Western
Australia, where supervision and incarceration rates are
relatively high.
But I think the most important statistic to share is that
Victoria’s approach to youth justice has decreased youth
crime—down a massive 19 per cent from 2009-10; and
doesn’t that just say it all.
Imagine a system that compared to the more punitive
alternatives has better outcomes for young people’s lives,
costs less, and actually makes the community safer. With
such a successful option available, why would we even
think about doing anything differently?
Gaps in the system of youth diversion
Unfortunately, despite the strength of our approach
the Victorian diversion system does have some serious
gaps. We have gaps in where programs are available, in
how discretion limits equity of access to programs that
do exist, and we have the problem that funding for most
diversion programs is about to run out.
1. Location
Despite delivering excellent results, diversion programs
are not actually available to all young people. In practice,
our system is manifestly unfair, and in general its rural
and regional young people that draw the short straw.
The ROPES program is available throughout Melbourne
and in a couple of regional locations, including Geelong.
But there is no ROPES program in Ararat, Bacchus Marsh,
Colac, Hamilton, Horsham, Mildura, Portland, Robinvale,
Stawell, Warrnambool, Bairnsdale, Benalla, Mansfield,
Morwell, Shepparton, Wangaratta, Wodonga, Sale or
Wonthaggi, and some other smaller places too.
The Youth Support Service is in some regional cities,
including Mildura, Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong, Morwell
and Shepparton, but it isn’t in any rural courts; and
young people appearing in regional courts including
Bairnsdale, Horsham, Sale and Wodonga, among others,
miss out. Likewise there is not statewide access to the
Intensive Bail Support program, or to the Central After
Hours Assessment and Bail Placement Service.
These gaps in access to diversion sits alongside a set
of other inequities that are likely to contribute to
higher rates of youth offending in rural and regional
areas, and in disadvantaged metropolitan locations.
These communities also have lower incomes, poorer
educational outcomes, and fewer job opportunities; all of
which are known to drive higher rates of youth offending.
It’s paradoxical that in many places where we have most
need, we have fewer options available to young people.
2. Discretion
Alongside this inequity in availability of diversion
programs we also have inequity in access to many of
the programs available because there is no legislation
to underpin discretion exercised by the police or
magistrates. This is not to be unduly critical of the
police or judiciary, as in general these members of our
community are phenomenal supporters of approaches
that work, because they see the real live impacts of all
the faults and glitches in our systems.
It’s the police who pick up a young person on the street
at night who’s homeless and high on drugs and, and
who recognise them as the same young person who was
standing frightened in the background at countless DV call
outs, and who they’ve picked up for running away, and who
they’re now faced with at 2am with no support services
open. It’s not easy to be the last fall back in the system.
Introducing pre-plea diversion into the Children’s Court
would create more consistency around when diversion
should be considered as an option, and a framework for
what should be taken into account.
3. Funding
For all that we have some excellent and successful
programs, without a new funding commitment in this
budget there will be almost no diversion from July
this year. Youth Support Service, Group Conferencing,
Youth Justice Community Support Service and Right
Step all finish up. Add to this that the Police have been
downscaling ROPES in many locations, and it’s clear
we’re at a turning point: Without a commitment in the
May Budget our very low rates of youth supervision and
detention and the gains we’ve made in reducing youth
crime will all begin to go in the other direction.
It’s time for action
The question we must ask is: does inequitable access
to diversion make sense and is it fair? We know
these programs work, and that they reduce costs of
incarceration, of ongoing offending and of supervision,
but only some young people get the chance. Legislatively
this is one area where the youth justice system isn’t even
keeping up with the adult system. Since 2009 adults
have had pre-plea diversion enshrined in legislation,
and consequently there is consistency of access to the
opportunity to avoid a criminal record for mostly first
time offenders. It’s counter-intuitive that there is no
parallel provision in the Children and Young Persons Act.
Today I’m calling on the Victorian Government and our
opposition to introduce legislation into Parliament to
enshrine the right to diversion for young people. I’m also
calling for diversion programs to be funded properly and
made available across Victoria, from Ouyen to Frankston,
and Omeo to Broadmeadows. Every young person needs
to be given fair access to the opportunities they need to
stay out of the criminal justice system and get on in life.
Take a look at the resources, which include a couple of
great videos, from the youth diversion launch (link below).
But nonetheless there do exist patterns across the state
where some police stations and some courts are more open
to using diversion than others. And for young people in the
system this creates inequities and lost opportunities.
www.smartjusticeforyoungpeople.wordpress.com/youthdiversion-video-launch-media-pack
Policy Update
State Budget a Mixed Bag for Victoria’s Young People
WRITTEN BY
Dr Jessie Mitchell | Manager, Policy and Projects
The Youth Affairs Council of Victoria has praised
the 2014-15 state budget for its funding of youth
justice diversion, and for its increase to disability
supports in schools. However, beyond this the budget
shows little sustained investment in Victoria’s young
people. This is concerning in light of a harsh federal
budget, which seems likely to increase young people’s
need for support.
Positives for young people
YACVic welcomed the news of $17.1 million over four
years to continue the Youth Support Service (YSS). This
early intervention service supports young people at risk
of involvement in the criminal justice system, addressing
the causes of offending behaviour and reducing young
people’s contact with police. This is a smart, costeffective and humane investment by the Victorian
Government.
Another welcome commitment in the state budget
was $304.9 million over four years to support the
Program for Students with Disabilities and the Student
Disabilities Transport Program. This will increase
transport access to specialist schools, and access to
specialised equipment, curriculum resources, aides and
teachers with special needs training. In light of the
serious educational inequalities raised by the Victorian
Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission in
Held Back (2012), it is good to see action in this space.
Other positives included:
• Funding for new places in therapeutic residential and
home-based care for children and young people unable
to remain safely with their families.
• $5 million over four years in operational costs for the
new Youth Foyer in Shepparton.
• $121 million for 658 more Individualised Support
Packages, including for young people with a disability
who are leaving school.
• $124.4 million over four years for the National
Partnership Agreement on Homelessness.
What’s missing?
YACVic was disappointed to see no new investment in
employment and ‘job ready’ programs for disadvantaged
READYS
2014
Nominations
open 7 July 2014
for more info call 9349 7999 or visit
www.vlga.org.au or www.yacvic.org.au
The Youth Affairs Council of Victoria (YACVic), in partnership with the
Victorian Local Governance Association (VLGA) is pleased to present
the READYS for another year in 2014. In its second year, the READYS
award program is for local governments, community organisations and
individuals working to make a difference in the lives of young Victorians.
Recognising Excellence Awards for Delivering Youth Services
Enjoy the benefits of
YACVic membership
young people. Last year the Victorian Government
switched its focus by offering incentives for businesses
to employ young people. However, more effort is
needed to help disadvantaged young people to become
job ready, increasing their chances of finding work
and keeping it. This is all the more pressing in light of
the Commonwealth government’s decision to severely
restrict young people’s access to income support, and
to end funding to Youth Connections and the Local
Learning and Employment Networks (LLENs).
YACVic was dismayed to note that the state budget
guaranteed no future funding to the LLENs either. These
bodies play a vital role in linking education providers,
employers and young people to boost training and
employment. Fears are now being raised about whether
they will be able to continue their successful work.
YACVic was also disappointed to see no new youthspecific funding for mental health support or mentoring
programs, or to increase young people’s participation in
their cultural or civic communities. With a state election
approaching, we hope to see positive new commitments
over the next few months.
What is YACVic doing about this?
YACVic issued a press release immediately after the
state budget was released identifying our concerns
with elements of it. We have discussed our concerns
with the Office for Youth and are seeking a meeting
with the Minister for Youth to discuss these further.
Our press release can be found here http://www.yacvic.
org.au/news/media-releases
Join us!
Perks include discounted or free entry into our forums,
training, events and conferences; free use of our Flinders
Street, CBD, boardroom; free advertising of events and job
opportunites through YACVic’s email bulletin Announce
(over 1,700 recipients from across the youth sector); and
plenty more.
Renewing for the 2014/15 year is easier than ever with the
ability to renew online at www.yacvic.org.au. Renewing for
more than one year means your membership is discounted.
We’ve been eating rather a lot
of doughnuts (donuts? Tomato,
tomAto?) at the YACVic office
lately. Sometimes for no reason at
all. However, these beauties were
devoured to celebrate the launch
of Yerp - and they were good!
www.yerp.org.au
Several issues that we were hoping would be
addressed in this year’s state budget will be identified
and discussed further in our 2014 State Election
Platform, which will be released shortly. YACVic
will hold an election forum on Thursday July 17th
where the Minister for Youth and opposition parties’
spokespersons for youth will be invited to address and
take questions on youth- related issues. See page 5 for
more information.
Putting
the
spotlight
on interns
Written by Colleen Chen |
Co-Founder, Interns Australia
Young people are increasingly undertaking
unpaid work. The past few years has seen a spike
in the number of unpaid internships while entrylevel jobs are in steady decline.
As entry-level positions now often demand prior work
experience, young graduates are trapped in an experience
paradox whereby they can’t get work without experience
and can’t obtain experience without working for free.
Interns Australia is a coalition of young Australians
who are creating a platform for debate and discussion
around the issue of internships. Our main goal is for
greater oversight into internships. An unregulated
area of transition between school and work can put the
wellbeing of young workers in jeopardy.
Current estimates of internships offered each year in
the United Kingdom and Canada vary between 100,000
and 300,000. There is no comparable data in Australia,
largely due to the transient nature of internships and a
lack of definition of what an internship is. Also as many
internships are unpaid, information on this workforce
remains elusive.
Interns Australia has taken a preliminary survey into the
state of internships in the country and has uncovered
some startling results.
Collected online over 6 months, more than fifty percent
of our survey respondents claimed to have completed
two or more internships in the past year that were over 3
months in duration and lasted five days a week.
Our survey also found that 72% of the respondents who
did do an internship did not do so under the framework
of a formal vocational training program. As there is
currently no legal definition for ‘intern’ under our
workplace legislation we can only infer from the Fair
Work Act 2009 that the students who are not otherwise
undertaking a placement as part of a formal vocational
training course must be identified as a National System
Employee subject to minimum wage requirements.
Interns Australia would like there to be a legislative
and policy response to the lack of data and definition
surrounding an increasingly common work arrangement
among young people. We want to work with young
people and key stakeholders in industry and the
legislature to offer better oversight to internships
in Australia.
Internships are increasingly the first labour-market
experience for many young people. By placing
Australia’s most vulnerable workers outside the scope
of the law, our labour laws ignore the workers that most
need its protection.
To get involved:
www.internsaustralia.org
www.facebook.com/internsaustralia
twitter.com/InternsAUS
Victorian Youth Mentoring
Alliance to cease operations
Despite a tremendous effort to sustain the
organisation, on June 27, the VYMA ceased
operations for the foreseeable future. This is due
to unexpected changes to funding arrangements,
which means the VYMA does not have resources
to continue in its current form.
However we will not be giving up on the
good fight!
YACVic would appreciate your guidance during this
transition, and there will be opportunities to become
involved in its work.
VYMA has achieved a great deal and have added
great strength to the sector. Forming in 2006 from
a passionate group of mentoring professionals, the
organisation has gone from strength to strength:
building up a strong and loyal membership, delivering
an array of quality projects and establishing Victoria as a
leader in the mentoring space.
VYMA has built a strong relationship with the Youth
Affairs Council of Victoria over the past two years.
YACVic has provided a great deal of support for
mentoring and will continue to support the Victorian
youth mentoring sector, by:
VYMA sends a big thank you to the former staff, board
members, partners and members of the VYMA. The work
from this alliance will be used in the community sector
for years to come.
• advocating for sustainable funding of mentoring
during the lead up to the Victorian state elections
Clare Waldron
VYMA Coodinator
• working on a new project, created by VYMA, to keep
VYMA resources accessible to the sector
Youth Disability Advocacy
Service (YDAS) Steering
Committee is seeking
new members!
Calling young people between 12 and 25
with disabilities!
Got things to say? Want to influence change about issues
that matter? Want to be involved in YDAS projects?
The YDAS Steering Committee is a group of young people
with disabilities who direct and influence the work that
YDAS does. We meet once every six weeks on a Saturday.
Interested? Questions? Contact Madeleine at
[email protected] for an application form.
Check out www.ydas.org.au to learn more
about YDAS.
UPDATE
12 locations, 700 students,
32 issues:VicSRC Regional
Conferences
WRITTEN BY Krista Seddon | VicSRC Coordinator | [email protected]
The VicSRC Regional Conferences are under way with
nine conferences completed and three to go. It’s been an
amazing journey visiting the different regions of Victoria
and hearing what young people have to say.
Through some enthralling activities and bonding
sessions the most important issues that face students
in our area was decided to be homophobia, bullying and
mental health.
The top issues identified by secondary students in
Gippsland, Ballarat, Bendigo, Melbourne, Geelong, and
Wangaratta were bullying, peer pressure, mental health,
homophobia, stress and anxiety around school performance,
engaging teacher styles, and student motivation.
The issues
With three more conferences to go for Term 2 we will
be sharing the detailed report with you shortly. In the
meantime, Sarah Bibby a Year 12 student from Bendigo
has written a reflection on the Bendigo Conference.
VicSRC Regional Conference ‒ Bendigo
Gathering at Bendigo South East College, the
Bendigo Regional Student Conference got underway
enthusiastically with a variety of students ranging from
Year 7 to Year 12. Students were asked to write down
their dreams; aspirations and pet hate on sheets so that
they could share with their colour group and get to know
each other better.
Bendigo Decided that homophobia, the pressure and stress
of family issues, the inability to access confidential student
support services and the awareness of students with special
needs were the issues most important to our region.
Education and raising awareness in the school community
was seen to be the best way to tackle these issues along
with practices that could be taken home so that student’s
issues are tackled from all aspects of their life.
Taking these issues to Congress
It is important to raise these issues at Congress because
there would be other school communities who are facing
the same kinds of problems. It is important that we
advocate for these issues on a state-wide level.
By Sarah Bibby, VicSRC Executive
Bendigo Senior Secondary College
Attended by the Minister for Education,
this annual two day camp is a highlight on
the VicSRC calendar.
Congress 2014 brings together secondary
students from across Victoria to discuss
and debate issues that are important
to their school communities. Students
participate in student led workshops,
activities, and formal decision-making
through a parliamentary-style congress.
#Congress2014
Scholarships
to Congress
This year, VicSRC, with the support of the Victorian
Department of Education and Early Childhood
Development, is pleased to offer 10 scholarships to
attend Congress, to help more young people to attend.
Each scholarship is valued at $145.00 and covers all
the costs of attending Congress: transport from/to
Melbourne CBD, accommodation, food, conference
resources and registration.
Students get to have
their say on homework
The two teenagers came to voice the frustration
of countless students who have struggled
through the tedium of homework. And their
audience of politicians was all ears. The Victorian
Student Representative Council’s Ron Garcia and
Tess Shacklock had the chance to give evidence at a
parliamentary inquiry’s public hearing on homework.
Read more on The Age website: http://bit.ly/1pKzMh3
HANSARD HOUND
LEGISLATIVE
ASSEMBLY
1 April 2014
National Youth Week
Mr R. Smith (Minister for Youth Affairs): National
Youth Week (NYW), which kicks off Friday, 4 April …
will include more than 100 events for young people
across Victoria—events such as film festivals, music
performances, art exhibitions and skate competitions,
plus an exciting opening event at the State Library
Victoria featuring a range of high—energy, interactive
music performances, a fun dance class and much more.
This year’s theme is ‘Our Voice. Our Impact’… It is
important that we celebrate the unique contributions
young people make to Victoria. It is also important
that young people have opportunities to participate in
their local community and play a role in shaping a great
Victoria now and into the future.
…. In partnership with the federal government, the
coalition has provided over $180,000 in grants to
support events across Victoria for NYW. I acknowledge
the work of this year’s NYW Young Member for
Victoria, Zac Slattery. Zac was previously on the Involve
Ministerial Advisory Committee, and he is actively
involved in his community. He is a great ambassador and
role model for all young Victorians.
8 May 2014
Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE
Mr Brooks (Bundoora): The Napthine government
stands condemned for the damage it is inflicting on the
TAFE sector across the state and on the thousands of
Victorians who rely on TAFE training. Courses have been
cut, fees have gone up and experienced staff have been
lost from the system. People in Melbourne’s northern
suburbs will be horrified to learn that the Northern
Melbourne Institute of TAFE (NMIT) is in serious
financial strife…. Just a few months ago, due to this
government’s cuts, the Greensborough campus of NMIT
was closed. ….
Young people in particular in my community and in
places like Diamond Creek and Eltham have been
abandoned by this government when they are seeking
opportunities to train up and acquire employment skills.
28 May 2014
Advance program
Mr Newton–Brown (Prahran): Congratulations to
the Victorian College for the Deaf and Melbourne
High School on recently receiving $9725 and $3000
respectively under the Coalition government’s Advance
program. The Advance school volunteer program engages
over 20,000 secondary school students each year to help
build local partnerships and support young people to give
back to their local communities. I applaud all young people
who have made an effort to volunteer and make a difference.
Rural and Regional Committee: capacity of farming sector to attract and retain young farmers and
respond to an ageing workforce
Mrs Powell (Shepparton): We keep hearing from people
about the challenges in the [farming industry] workforce
and how we can retain and attract young people…. The
committee heard that there was a negative image of
the agriculture industry that impacted on its ability to
attract and retain young people in the workforce... the
source of that negativity came in some ways from the
families themselves…. It also came from the schools,
which did not have the ability to say to young people that
there was a career in agriculture.
11 June 2014
LLENs
Mr Herbert (Eltham): [The government] has slashed
funding to local learning and employment networks
(LLENs)—vital community organisations set up by Labor
as part of its plan to keep young people in school and
help them to get jobs. A local learning and employment
network is like an octopus: it is a hub of a whole heap of
community effort to give young people a chance in life by
keeping them in school, engaged and on the road to jobs.
12 June 2014
Geelong Region Local Learning and Employment
Network
Mr Eren (Lara): I wish to raise an urgent matter for
the attention of the Minister for Education. The action
I seek from the minister is that he ensure that the
educational needs of the Geelong community are met
and in particular that the funding of the Geelong Region
Local Learning and Employment Network is maintained.
The network is a partnership organisation committed
to improving the education, training and employment
Hansard Hound is a regular feature in Yikes. In each issue we provide you with brief
snippets of news and information about what’s going on in Victoria’s Parliament,
who said what and what they said about young people and youth services.
opportunities for young people between the ages of 10
and 19. It includes schools, businesses and community
organisations in its scope… Now this effective, wellorganised and extremely beneficial program has seen a
severe cut to its funding. Under the Abbott government
the network will lose all federal funding after December
2014. On the current funding projections the program is
sure to close.
… Geelong faces challenges with regard to its jobs
market. It is imperative that this government ensure
that Geelong is well prepared for the future, and that will
only happen with investment in our youth.
LEGISLATIVE
COUNCIL
2 April 2014
Employment
Mr Scheffer (Eastern Victoria): Ms Tierney's motion
mentions the Brotherhood of St Laurence Australian
Youth Unemployment 2014 -- Snapshot, which
contains a wealth of information on the dramatic rise
in unemployment among young people. The snapshot
summarises some useful and, as Ms Tierney pointed out,
alarming data, such as the fact that more than one in
three young people aged between 15 and 24 is currently
unemployed. In Victoria the Goulburn Valley, Wodonga
and Wangaratta are included in what the snapshot calls
a 'youth unemployment hot spot', where the youth
unemployment rate is at 17.5 per cent. The snapshot
encourages policy-makers to devise and support
programs to invest in young people to enable them to
be work ready by providing access to work experience
and coaching, keeping them engaged and building
relationships with employers.
7 May 2014
Homelessness funding
Hon. W. A. Lovell (Minister For Housing): [I]n this
year's budget we have committed $201.9 million to
support social housing and homelessness services. This
comprises $124.4 million over four years to provide
certainty for the sector regarding initiatives that are
state funded under the national partnership agreement
on homelessness.
These include targeted responses to people sleeping
rough, specialist support to enable children to access
education, improved family violence responses, improved
support for young people through the employment of
dual-diagnosis workers, improved support for young
people leaving care, support for people exiting prison
and support for people to maintain tenancies.
10 June 2014
Youth employment
Ms Tierney (Western Victoria): To date, this
government has cut more than $1 billion from Victoria's
TAFE system, making it so much harder for young people,
particularly in regional Victoria, to access education to
help them gain employment.
Along with this the Minister for Employment and Trade,
Louise Asher, has now admitted that the Napthine
government has reduced the number of traineeships in
the Youth Employment Scheme from 450 to 280. The
government has also slashed the amount of funding per
traineeship from $4500 to $500.
We have [also] seen Prime Minister Tony Abbott …
slashing tens of billions of dollars from education
funding, legislating to increase university fees,
defunding important youth diversion programs such
as Youth Connections and telling every young person
that, even though the government is making it more
difficult for them as young people to get a job, if they are
unemployed, they will not receive government support
until they turn 25.
11 June 2014
Youth Employment
Ms Tierney (Western Victoria): I indicate my absolute
support for the local learning and employment networks
(LLENs), many of which, as a result of state and federal
government cuts, will have to close their doors on 31
December...
LLENs have a particular focus on young people at risk of
disengaging and on those who have already disengaged
from education and training and are not in meaningful
employment. I worry about what is going to happen to
those young people because LLENs not only deal with
teenagers in the mid-teenage and later teenage years,
they also make interventions at earlier stages on the
recommendation of teachers and other people in the
sector. When we on this side were in government we
HANSARD HOUND
saw many more children start to disengage during the
primary school years, so we created a whole new set of
innovations in that area to make sure that we did not
lose kids so early from the education system.
11 June 2014
State and federal budgets
YDAS’ disability
advocacy
radio show
is now on air
at SYN FM!
Mr Tarlamis (South Eastern Metropolitan: [The federal
government] is creating a system where universities
will be able to triple fees. This combined with doubling
the higher education contribution scheme's interest on
repayments will trap young people into more than a
generation of debt and further entrench inequality, as
those with the ability to pay will benefit, rather than
the system being based on merit. Not satisfied with
denying students opportunities and pricing them out of
education and training, the federal colleagues of those
opposite continue their assault on the youth of Victoria
by taking action to deny young people under 30 years
of age access to unemployment benefits for six months.
This will affect 100 000 young people this year, and that
number will grow to 700 000 over the next four years.
Tune into SYN 90.7FM at 3pm
every Saturday and have a listen.
Young people who do not have the means or cannot rely
on the support of family for a variety of reasons - such as
family breakdown, estrangement or mental illness - will
face lives of poverty, disadvantage and homelessness and,
most importantly, the loss of the opportunity to break
this cycle.
25 June 2014
Frontyard Youth Services
Hon. W. A. Lovell: It was also a pleasure to launch
recently the refurbished Frontyard Youth Services for
Melbourne Citymission at its King St service. Frontyard
is at the forefront of delivering services to young people
who are homeless or at risk of homelessness by providing
access to 13 co-located services. Assisting more than
5000 vulnerable young people per annum, the new openplan space allows staff and young people to interact in
a more open way while being able to hold twice as many
young people. The Victorian coalition government is a
proud supporter of Melbourne Citymission, funding over
$9 million for homelessness services last year.
RaiseThePlatform
The Youth Affairs Council of Victoria
Election Platform
2014
1
YACVic’s Election Platform 2014 - coming soon.
Election years provide an opportunity for organisations like ours—peak advocacy
bodies—to put on record the initiatives and programs we think will make a
real difference in the lives of the Victorians we represent. This year’s platform
has been put together after a lot of consultation with our members, other peak
bodies, young people and the sector that supports them more broadly.
YACVic’s election platform is an opportunity for us as a sector to put our requests
out to all political parties—regardless of persuasion—and to say these are the
things we think will improve the lives of young Victorians.
Keep an eye on your inboxes and on the YACVic website over the next weeks.
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Federal budget raises spectre of youth poverty, homelessness

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