Investment specifications
Investment specifications describe the intent of investment, the service users and associated issues, service delivery types, and requirements for services to be delivered with departmental investment.
The investment specifications are used in conjunction with the Social Service agreements and provide detail on specific requirements to be included in the agreements.
All service areas
Investment specifications
- Individuals (PDF, 787 KB) (DOCX, 583 KB)
- Community (PDF, 620 KB) (DOCX, 496 KB)
- Service system support and development (PDF, 592 KB) (DOCX, 521 KB)
Related information
Child and family
Investment specifications
- Child protection (support services) Child protection (support services)
- Child protection (placement services) Child protection (placement services)
- Families Families
- Family based care Family based care (Kinship Care)
- Young people Young people
- Making decisions in our way (delegated authority support services) Making decisions in our way (delegated authority support services)
Related information
- Family based care brokerage guidelines (PDF, 332 KB) (DOCX, 689 KB)
- Foster and kinship carer orientation and responsibility guidelines (PDF, 309 KB) (DOCX, 691 KB)
- Family based care counting rules factsheet (PDF, 946 KB) (XLSX, 33 KB)
- Social services agreements and contracts
- Outputs catalogue
- FaCC service model and guidelines (PDF, 1.3 MB) (DOCX, 3.5 MB)
- IFS service model and guidelines (PDF, 4.4 MB) (DOCX, 5 MB)
- Tertiary family support (TerFS) brokerage guidelines (PDF, 249 KB) (DOCX, 900 KB)
- Making decisions in our way (delegated authority support services) brokerage funding guidelines (PDF, 320 KB) (DOCX, 904 KB)
- Delegated authority signed funding declarations (PDF, 82 KB)
Output and performance measures
Community Services
Investment specifications
- Community Services (PDF, 521 KB) (DOCX, 442 KB)
- Queensland Government Human and Social Disaster Relief and Recovery Program
Related information and guidelines
- Community Connect
- Community Transport Program
- Guidelines for diversion services and toolkit
- Neighbourhood Centres
- Queensland Community Support Scheme
- Safe Night Precinct Support Services
Output and performance measures
Domestic, family and sexual violence
Investment specifications
- Domestic and family violence support services (PDF, 901 KB) (DOCX, 856 KB)
- Sexual violence and women's support services (PDF, 784 KB) (DOCX, 815 KB)
Output and performance measures
Seniors, Disability Services and Carers
Investment specifications
- Older people Older people
- Service system support and development Service system support and development
- Disability Services output and measures list
- Outputs and Performance Measures Catalogue
Output and performance measures
Archived versions
Previous versions of the Investment Specifications can be found on the archive page.
Providing feedback
Feedback can be provided at any time to the department which will be collected in a register and used for consideration in the next cycle of review.
Please provide feedback via email to procurementsolutionsDFSDSCS@dcssds.qld.gov.au.
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