Following the CDEP restructure, effective from 1 July 2009, new CDEP participants can be part of two streams of assistance – Work-Readiness Services and Community Development. This change may have an impact on the comparability of the data before and after the policy change. To ensure comparability over time, the reporting from 2009-10 onwards will take into account this policy change. Note also that as at 1/7/09 the service delivery area of the program was reduced to remote areas only with a maximum allocated places for the program set at 15,000, a reduction of over 5,000 from the previous year. For the Indigenous population numbers, the latest ABS release of population projections (8 September 2009), which covers the future period ending in 2021, will be used. |