Ms ROSOL – I have a question about the DPAC website relating to disability services. It has quite a few links on it to various documents and forms relating to disability services and people with disabilities. Quite a lot of it is very dated. There’s a role of advocacy services in the Tasmanian disability sector document that’s from November 2011. There were forms from 2012 that include old department titles dating back to 2011. There were email addresses on the website that include departments that no longer exist, and missing attachments. There were more than 20 dead links, including one to a medication management framework.
I was concerned about that, because that’s a place where members of the public would go for information, and so much of it was dated. Why is the information on there so dated now? There are so many dead links. Is it a resourcing issue? Is it a neglect issue? Is it reflective of a broader issue with a lack of resourcing and not being able to keep on top of things like that? When could we expect that the website might be fixed up so it provides accurate, up-to-date information and contact details?
Ms PALMER – It’s a good question. I’ll pass to our Deputy Secretary.
Ms GRAY – Thank you. I’m advised that as a result of the machinery of government changes that occurred with the move into DPAC, there were a number of items of dated information and, as you rightly pointed out, anomalies identified with the website. There is an active project underway. In terms of timeline on updating that, there is no specific timeline. However, we will work, as a priority, to address that for people living with disability in Tasmania.
