Bill
Aged Care Amendment (Staffing Ratio Disclosure) Bill 2019
lapsed, as at 2020-02-11. (s) SHARKIE, Rebekha, MP portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Rebekha Sharkie
- Portfolio
- (s) SHARKIE, Rebekha, MP
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2019-07-22
- second reading — 2019-07-22
- other — 2020-02-11
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2019-07-22.
The bill would require aged care providers to publish staff-to-resident ratios for each residential service every three months.
Providers would report ratios by staff category to the Secretary, counting part-time staff as fractions of full-time equivalents, and the Secretary would make the information public.
Services would be grouped into four categories based on their average ACFI quartile, and providers could add an optional explanation of up to 250 words.
- Requires quarterly publication of staff-to-resident ratios for each residential care service.
- Requires providers to notify the Secretary of ratios by staff category, with part-time staff counted as full-time equivalent fractions.
- Requires the Secretary to make the information publicly available.
- Places residential services into four categories based on their average ACFI quartile.
- Allows providers to submit an optional explanation of up to 250 words for publication.
- Requires providers to notify the Secretary within 28 days if a ratio changes by more than 10% between quarterly reports.
Approved providers of residential aged care services and members of the public choosing residential care.
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