Millions of dollars of funding have been cut for Alice Springs based youth program run by one of Australia’s largest First Nation Organisations. The Northern Territory Government says the money will be better spent on other youth focuses initiatives.
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00:00Kids are the Territory's future, but the Chief Minister says a program in Alice Springs
00:08town camps is letting them down, three youth hubs now consigned to history.
00:13It wasn't making a difference to what we needed to see in Alice Springs, which is having kids
00:18not on the street, not causing trouble in Alice Springs.
00:22Tanganyira Council, which runs the program, has been criticised recently for falling short
00:27in service delivery.
00:29The evaluation showed that that wasn't hitting the mark, so those programs aren't going to
00:34continue.
00:35That $2.3 million will be used for other things in Alice Springs.
00:40Like new youth workers patrolling the streets at night.
00:43Yipirinya School Principal Gavin Morris says it's a sad day, but the decision should come
00:49as no surprise.
00:51It's another example of what happens if you don't get service delivery right.
00:55Some youth advocates would prefer to see money directed towards shelter and food security
01:00in Central Australia.
01:02They're the two really basic things, if you haven't got those, you forget about the rest.
01:07Because people are just living hand to mouth, day to day.
01:10They're in survival mode.
01:11Tanganyira Council declined requests for comment or interview, and the ABC understands up to
01:1730 roles could be impacted with the possibility of redeployments or redundancies.
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