Majority of these places do not have well maintained sanitary facilities. This makes the group of people to suffer many communicable diseases. Some of them stay temporarily with friends and relatives. This policy was thus put in place to ensure that resources in the organisation are geared towards the aged can having secure and safe accommodation. (Chenoweth, 2005) Key components of policy and government responses This policy has various components. This includes the stages of implementation of the policy.
One of the components is the age of the homeless person. The policy requires the homeless person to be above fifty five years. This also includes the fact that the person to be given accommodation should not be having close relatives that can support him or her. This includes children and siblings. (Lewis, 2010) The policy’s other components involves identification of homeless person, verification of individual’s details and finally incorporation into the organisation’s residential program.
The assessment of individuals is carried out by Aged Care Assessment Team (ACAT). (Lewis, 2010) Other key components include the amount of resources that the organisation sets per year in implementing the policy. This includes material, financial and time resources set in implementation of the homelessness policy. This also includes the number of homeless people that need to be given accommodation in a year. The Australian government has responded to this policy in diverse ways. This is through participation in consultative structures and forums that help in examining the problem of homelessness in the community.
The Australian government has also responded through co-working with organisational stakeholders to ensure needy people are reached. This also includes ensuring that resources to facilitate implementation of homeless policy in the organisation and community at large. (Chenoweth, 2005) The policy affected the government’s response by putting in place social and housing policies that are associated with homelessness. Government stakeholders have advocated for more funding from government. This has also resulted in the government being involved in implementation of state environmental planning policy number ten that deals with low cost in rental premises.
The government has responded by putting in place strategies of more affordable housing for Australian citizens. It has also developed policies that need its staffs to refer and inform homeless people about support services in their community. The White Paper was put in place by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to reduce homelessness by half by the year 2020. In this case the government responded by offering to support all the rough sleepers by providing accommodation. The Australian government acknowledged that there are approximately one hundred and five thousand homeless people in the nation.
The government’s other response has been putting in place strategies to prevent homelessness in the nation. This also includes strategies of breaking the homelessness cycle. This also includes overall expansion of services that can help end homelessness among affected people. (Jamrozik, 2009) Analysis impact of policy to chosen organisation and client group An overall analysis of the policy shows that it has various effects to the organisation and the client group. This policy has made the organisation to gunner its resources towards implementing the goal.
This policy has given the organisation favour and good relations with the community. (Lewis, 2010) People highly embrace its activities as they feel the policy is really helpful to the homeless in the community. This policy has made the organisation to receive awards from Christian, governmental and non-governmental bodies. This includes awards from Aged and Community Services Australia (ACSA), ACCV state awards for excellence, business women’s awards and Victorian finalist awards. This is in consideration of its work in ensuring that the elderly homeless people are adequately sheltered.
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