Corrective Services

PRISONS — COUNSELLING AND MENTAL HEALTH STAFF

538. Hon ALISON XAMON to the minister representing the Minister for Corrective Services:

I refer to the 2019–20 state budget and to the coroner’s recent identification of a critical shortfall in the number of prison counselling and mental health staff.

(1) Has any funding been allocated to increase the number of prison counselling and mental health staff within the prison system?

(2) If yes to (1), how much funding has been allocated?

No funding to address ‘critical shortfalls’ in prison mental health services

Greens spokesperson for corrective services Hon Alison Xamon MLC has expressed her frustration as answers to her questions in parliament last night revealed that the WA State Government has allocated no funds in the 2019-20 budget to address understaffing of prison counselling and mental health services in WA prisons.

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