Shared Responsibility Agreements

Shared Responsibility Agreement

The Bourke community wants to make the town a safer place at night and to make education more relevant for their children. It has signed two SRAs with the Australian and New South Wales Governments to work towards these aims.

The NSW Government will provide accredited training for staff and, with the local council, will also help with operational costs.

The community will provide staff to be trained and run the night patrol. The local CDEP will also run a family violence workshop and liaise regularly with the police and courts. The community will provide staff (through the CDEP) to be trained and run the night patrol. The CDEP will also run a family violence workshop and liaise regularly with the police and courts.

For its second SRA, the community wants current education practices to be more relevant to their children to encourage better school attendance. The Australian and NSW Governments will work with the community to develop new ways of keeping kids at school to improve educational outcomes.

The community will mentor young people to stay in school and work with families to ensure attendance.

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Key Facts

Regional town in north-west NSW

Population:

Around 4000, the majority Indigenous

Focus of the SRA:

Community safety and school attendance

What the SRA provides:

Night patrol and the development of innovative ways to encourage school attendance

ICC:

Bourke

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