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Chaplaincy and Pastoral Care Funding Program (YNSS)

Purpose

Funds are provided to schools to engage, through a community organisation, the services of a chaplain, pastoral care coordinator, youth worker, youth support coordinator or other type of support worker to provide direct support to vulnerable students.

Expenditure guidelines

Grants provided under this program are targeted to identified schools that have enrolments of 100 or more students as at February 2007 from areas of low socio-economic backgrounds.

School Principals are responsible for the expenditure of the funding provided under the State Government Chaplaincy/Pastoral Care Funding Program, in accordance with the program guidelines.

Schools must not directly employ the support worker, and must engage the services of the support worker through a non-government organisation.

A short form annual acquittal is included in the program guidelines, which asks schools to nominate what type of support worker was engaged and the types of programs implemented by that support worker using the grant funds.

The SMS cost centre code is YNSS.

Duration of program

This funding program runs until 2013.

Policy reference

Schools electing to engage a chaplain must do so in accordance with policy SCM-PR-012: Chaplaincy Services in Queensland State Schools.

This policy identifies accountabilities and procedures for principals of state schools, who in consultation with local communities and with the support of the Parents and Citizens' Association, implement chaplaincy services as a community initiative; it includes processes for developing and implementing a school's chaplaincy program and accompanying documentation including procedure for appointing a paid or volunteer chaplain to deliver a program of chaplaincy services.

Eligibility

Funding was allocated in July 2007 to identified target schools with students living in low socio-economic areas according to the following formula:

Schools with enrolments of 100-409 students at February 2007, receive $5000 per year.
Schools with enrolments of 410 or more students at February 2007, receive $10,000 per year.

There are no plans to extend this program to additional schools.

Form of assistance

Targeted grants direct to approved schools

Payment details

Payment details for Chaplaincy and Pastoral Care
Payment	During month of	Proportion of allocation paid	Enrolments
Annual payment	July or upon receipt of annual acquittal	100% of approved funding	100+ enrolments from low socio-economic areas

Allocation of funds

Funding will be provided to approved schools in the July GAPS payment for each year of the program.

Data requirements

Data requirements for Chaplaincy and Pastoral Care
Data item	Data source	Due date
Annual report detailing status of chaplaincy funds at the end of the calendar year	Annual Funding Program Grant Report	31 December each year

Contact

Senior Advisor
Student Services Branch
Telephone: (07) 3405 6363
Facsimile: (07) 3237 0432

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