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Pay Equity Decision

Fair Work Australia handed down their decision in relation to the ASU's Equal Pay Case on Wednesday 1st February 2012.

LOMA encourages you to find out more about this historical decision for the community services sector. There are several sources of information:

Fair Work Australia Decision

Australian Services Union

VCOSS

 
LOMA Conference save the date

LOMA Annual Forum 21st, 22nd and 23rd March

Kerang

Broad theme - Community Engagement

Start deciding whose turn it is in your team to attend and book it in!

Ideas for making it more informative and enjoyable for you welcome!

 
New training providers

Successful Specialist Homelessness Sector (SHS) Training Providers Announced

The tender for the 2012-2014 training involved some changes, including:

  • the short course training calendar that is developed twice annually (per semester)
  • the Certificat IV in Social Housing and a Diploma in Social Housing
  • specific Indigenous sector training sessions

The successful proivder for the short course training calendar is Wodonga TAFE. The new short course training calendar will be emailed and hard copies posted by early February 2012.

The successful provider for the Indigenous sector training, the Certificate IV in Social Housing and Diploma in Social Housing is Swinburne University of Technology.

Details have been distributed via a letter to agencies, or you can contact Jude Di Manno, LOMA Coordinator, for these.

 
Welcome new Coordinator

LOMA welcomes Courtney Lucanto as the new LOMA Coordinator

LOMA is very pleased to welcome Courtney Lucanto, who will be the LOMA Coordinator whilst Jude Di Manno takes Maternity Leave. Courtney has just begun working with LOMA and has been thrown in at the deep end with conference organising! You can help the process by getting your bookings in early!

Jude Di Manno, LOMA Coordinator, will take Maternity Leave from the end of February 2012.

The things to look out for as you return to work or start to get into the swing of the year are the LOMA Annual Forum and local/Melbourne based training events. Details will be released on this website as soon as they come to hand.

Remember to get in touch, particularly if you have ideas about how to make the LOMA conference an even greater success!  

 
January SHIP update

January SHS e newsletter
18th January 2012

November 11th SHS e newsletter
11th November 2011

October 20th SHS e Newsletter
20th Oct 2011

Please follow the advice in the link below to remove unused user ids from SHIP if required
Removing unused ID's from SHIP

September 22nd SHS e Newsletter
22nd Sep ENews

September 6th SHS eNewsletter
6 September issue

The September 1st SHS eNewsletter contains information about submitting your data for July and August.
September 2011 issue.

The August 2011 Specialist Homelessness Services e-newsletter contains important information regarding the imminent upload of agency data to SHOR, the newsletter details the rectification of the recent privacy breach in SHIP.
 
Please note that the privacy breach was quickly rectified and the errant functionality switched off, so agencies should continue to use SHIP as normal, and prepare to upload agency data via SHOR as scheduled by August 10.
Download August 5 e-newsletter here

Please contact the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Hotline Number on 1800 627 191 for assistance.

This AIHW website link takes you to all the relevant documents and updated forms
AIHW

The guide for the commencement of SHIP may assist you with some aspects of the data system.
Download guide here

This Australian Institute of Health and Welfare online support link may also assist you
http://support.s2s.org.au/ship-online-help