Department Of Families, Community Services And Indigenous Affairs - Indigenous Coordination Centre -
Community Service in Tamworth Regional

Established in 1980 as an independent, statutory authority, the role of the Australian Institute of Family Studies is to conduct research and communicate findings that affect family well being to policy makers, service providers and the broader community. Two statutory office holders in the DDS portfolio exercise self-reliant statutory functions with administrative encourage from the Department: Functions, areas of responsibility and decision making powers of DDS The broad functions of the Department are described below. The statement reaffirms the Government’s commitment to a culturally diverse and harmonious society. As part of the Government’s deregulation agenda, Ministers have written to portfolio bodies and statutory office holders with regulatory functions to outline their performance expectations of these functions. Information on secluded area allowance, available to social security customers who live in secluded areas. It is an annual 300 payments that provides assistance with household expenses, including energy costs, for low income households. The objective of Centrepay is to aid Customers in managing expenses, which are consistent with the purposes of their welfare payments, and reducing financial risk, by providing a facility to have regular Deductions made from their welfare payments. Some international agreements specifically provide for diverse payment arrangements. Information on the istrative Arrangements Order list, portfolio legislation and the status of legislation currently prior Parliament. The following information is provided to aid organizations who want to do business with DDS or maintain their funding relationship with DDS. The subsequent DDS Policy Statements are to aid organizations to confront the funding requirements when doing business with the department. Bear and manage quality longitudinal data sets and foster their use. Facilitate broader use of longitudinal data. Longitudinal data is data collected from the identical individuals (or households, businesses or other entities) repeatedly over time. The Longitudinal Studies and the National center for Longitudinal Data (NCLD) fact sheet explains the value of longitudinal data, and particularly how it can encourage decision makers to address critical questions. The Policy Evidence Branch is involved in a expansive variety of research projects involving the analysis of longitudinal data and the development of longitudinal research methodology. The Australian Government’s deregulation agenda aims to reduce regulatory burden and red tape imposed on business, community organizations, and individuals by 1 billion per year. To implement the Government’s deregulation agenda, DDS is committed to improving its regulatory approaches towards risk based, proportional regulatory interventions based on powerful evidence. This Report highlights the contributions the Department made in 2014 by implementing a number of believable improvements to diminish red tape for the profit of individuals, businesses and the community sector. As piece of the Australian Government’s Industry Innovation and Competitiveness Agenda and the broader Deregulation Agenda, the Government has adopted the principle that if a system, service or product has been approved below a trusted international standard or risk assessment, then Commonwealth regulators should not impose any surplus requirements for approval in Australia, unless it can be demonstrated that there is a appropriate reason to do so. Adopting the standard or risk assessment will result in an overall net earnings (including regulatory, economic and social benefits). It celebrates our achievements and showcases the long range of activities we conduct every day to improve the lifetime well being of people and families in Australia. These five case studies highlight some of the labor we do at DDS to improve the lifetime healthy being of people and families in Australia.