Sentences with phrase «flexible funding pool»

Amanda Bresnan, executive director of Community Mental Health Australia, told the conference that federal funding for mental health programs was being transferred to the NDIS and a flexible funding pool for PHNs to commission services through a stepped care model.

Not exact matches

The Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation proposes, in the national strategy to overcome Indigenous disadvantage, that Commonwealth / State fiscal relations with Indigenous people could be improved by governments employing mechanisms to ensure adequate funding; offering supplementary funding incentives for meeting benchmarks agreed with Indigenous organizations (such as through federal Special Purpose Payments grants); pooling funds across agencies and levels of government; developing a joint agency approach to coordination of services and programs; creating flexible funding arrangements; ensuring geographic distribution of funds; and through prioritising the allocation of funds to community controlled services.

Another approach to creating more flexible arrangements for addressing disadvantage that has been suggested is the pooling of funds.