Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

Is there any financial support being offered? You have listed a whole range of materials, which are great. But during the hearing we heard from many providers that a day of training was going to cost potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars, particularly for some of the larger providers, and there will be a significant retraining program needed for all of our aged-care workers, no matter what level that they operate at, whether it be very senior and registered nurses, right the way through to our lifestyle care support workers. They will all need to go through retraining. We heard, as I said, during the inquiry that hundreds of thousands of dollars would be the cost of one day of training, because, obviously, if you are taking people off the floor, you have to replace them on the floor. Does the government have any idea of what the costs to the sector more broadly will be for retraining and making sure that our care workers are up to speed with these reforms?