doi.org/10.1017/S0312897000014223

Article type: Original Research

PUBLISHED 1 January 1987

Volume 12 Issue 3

Personal Services Assistance after the Sydney Floods of August 1986

Allison Rowlands

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Allison Rowlands1

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1 Department of Youth & Community Services, N.S.W.

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CITATION: Rowlands A. (1987). Personal Services Assistance after the Sydney Floods of August 1986. Children Australia, 12(3), 621. doi.org/10.1017/S0312897000014223

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Abstract

In New South Wales, the State Disaster Welfare Plan provides the structure for disaster relief and the co-ordination of both government and non-government bodies. The plan provides for a Personal Services and Welfare Information subcommittee in each regional or local area, responsible for assistance to individuals, groups and communities. This can be of a personal (e.g. counselling, referral) and information (e.g. dissemination, publicity, meetings) nature. Separate subcommittees are responsible for accommodation, clothing, catering and registration in the immediate post-disaster phase.

The New South Wales Government also provides assistance to families who have suffered material losses in bushfires or floods, though a Relief Scheme, administered by the Department of Youth and Community Services and the Bushfire/Flood Relief Committee. The department is divided into ten regions throughout the state.

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