00:02It's hoped this facility will bring terminally ill children sanctuary and comfort in their final moments.
00:09Today marks a significant step towards providing children with life-limiting conditions and their families with an alternative to hospital
00:19and home care.
00:20WA's first children's hospice, Bujamiya Sandcastles, finally complete.
00:25In this beautiful space, children can just be children. They're not having to think about being patients.
00:31We'll have a 24-7 team of clinical and support staff here helping children and their families to access respite
00:38care, specialist symptom management and also end-of-life care and bereavement.
00:43But the $38 million project has faced challenges.
00:47At every turn, the foundation had to fight to deliver this project from a recalcitrant council that did everything to
00:57oppose it.
00:58The city of Nedlands previously opposing the Allen Park site.
01:02It was a unanimous decision. That is the city's land.
01:06It is like giving away Hyde Park, Jardin to Luxembourg, the Royal National Park in Sydney.
01:12The Perth Children's Hospital Foundation frustrated by landscaping delays.
01:17We've got 7,500 plants ready to plant and we want to get going this week.
01:21But look, it has got better since the sacking of the previous dysfunctional council.
01:27The city's new mayor blames the hold-up on an access and maintenance agreement that hasn't been signed.
01:33I was told about this this morning, so I've called a special council meeting for this Wednesday so that council
01:41can consider it.
01:42Some reflection for those who didn't get to see it.
01:45We've had families who've had children at the beginning of this process have now lost them,
01:50so kids who will never get to enjoy this facility because it's taken a lot longer than we would have
01:55loved to have seen at work.
01:56The hospice is expected to welcome families in October.
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