Annual Report 2005-2006 - Waverley Council

Reviewing Our 2005/2009 Management Plan
Did We Do What We Said We Would Do?
From July 2006 the accreditation process will have ‘announced’ validation visits. The Minister for
Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs announced this change to Child Care Quality
assurance. The aim is to strengthen the accreditation process and to provide greater certainty for
parents that good quality care is being achieved and continuously maintained.
Gardiner Child Care, Family Day Care and Bronte Child Care have received licensing for another 2
years. Children’s Services Regulations were updated and the new legislation, Children’s Services
regulation 2004, has been implemented from 1 January 2006. A change in the Regulations involves
the visit by the Department of Community Services to approve the license for the next 2 years. This
involves a process of ‘unannounced’ visits to the service by a Department of Community Services
Children’s Services officer.
Council continued to provide quality service for older people throughout the period including
Seniors Centre Activities, Meals on Wheels and Home Library Services. A number of actions were
taken to address the issues arising out of the 2004 Aged Care Forum.
During 2005/2005 staff from Council’s Integrated Planning and Community Consultation Team
collected and analysed information about Waverley’s ageing population. The information has been
shared with Council’s Planning and other key officers, and will be documented for the public in
Council’s Social Plan. Discussions have continued with a range of aged care providers in Waverley
with the expectation that a higher level of service delivery in residential care will be achieved over the
next 5 to 10 years.
Coordination of the arts and cultural programs continues to be implemented in key areas such as
event planning, marketing and advertising, event promotion and risk management planning.
Planning and implementation of arts and cultural programs and events now follow a more coordinated
approach through meetings and work groups involving staff from Library & Customer Services, Bondi
Pavilion Community Cultural Centre, Community Services, Integrated Planning, Bondi Junction Place
Management, Bondi Place Management, Multicultural Services and Environmental Services. An event
coordination project team will be established in 2006/2007 to enhance this approach and to develop
an across council event strategy. Communication links will be strengthened between a number of
Council divisions that have been identified as key stakeholders in the delivery of a diverse arts and
cultural program.
The production of a draft event calendar for internal and external promotion of council activities has
been developed and will be reviewed and adopted by the event project team in liaison with key
stakeholders such as the Community Safety Committee. This aims to ensure efficiency through a
council wide approach to allocation of resources and effectiveness through the distribution of key
messages being promoted to the community.
The Waverley Council Arts Plus Plan will go on public exhibition in 20062007 with the implementation
of the recommended actions to commence shortly after this. The purpose of the Plan is to position
Waverley’s arts and cultural activities and resources within the over-arching vision of Council’s
strategic plan and to develop a program of arts services, facilities, events and activities that will help
achieve Council’s objectives.
Moving Around Waverley
Concept civil design and landscape (“Looking Good”) plans for Seven Ways were approved by
Council following extensive consultation with the community.
Tenders for construction were called in February 2006. As the tendered prices received were higher
than anticipated, construction of only the civil works component of the project (Stage 1) were
undertaken, with works commencing in April 2006. Construction works were completed in July 2006.
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