Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

Obviously, the funding that is allocated to the aged-care system is growing, so the investment in aged care, which is in the order of multiple billions of dollars, is provided. You would expect, whilst some of the aspects of training might change slightly to reflect the new standards in particular, providers would already have allocations for training of staff. So there may be some adjustment, but I think there is an acknowledgement that the public funding going into aged care is increasing, and part of that is making sure that they are explaining what they are doing to their workers and to older people using their service. As I said in my earlier answer, whilst there will be updating to that, the department is providing all the resources and guidance material to providers to help them with that job. I might just check that. In a sense, that is my answer. We're not providing specific grants for implementation outside of the ones we have already discussed but we are investing more into aged care in general and we are backing that up with the resources that providers will need to reflect the changes both to their workers and to their clients.