Priority 3

Delivering modern services for our communities

Priority outcomes

9. All services provided or commissioned are developed to maximise outcomes, safety and quality with no unnecessary red tape.
10. We integrate our services to ensure we understand the supports and care our communities need and then deliver them.
11. Our services and programs are driven by data and the best available evidence, research and practice and we always measure and evaluate outcomes.
12. We will make it easier and more accessible for people to connect with DHS, including through digitising and streamlining all possible services.

Priority deliverables for 2021-22

• Launch South Australia’s NDIS Restrictive Practices scheme.
• Launch the South Australian Aboriginal Language Interpreting Service.
• Implement strategies to prepare DHS to operate under the NDIS from July 2023.
• Advance the Youth Justice State Plan.
• Progress the Kurlana Tapa Youth Justice Centre capital build.
• Develop an integrated, department-wide clinical governance framework.
• Deliver the Disability Accommodation Services Trainee Recruitment initiative.
• Progress system and customer experience improvements in the worker screenings regime.
• Respond to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability and implement system improvements and recommendations.