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Submission
Delivering fairness: 2019 VCOSS Victorian budget submission
Publisher
Social services
Community-based social services
Housing
Poverty
Justice
Education
Disability
State and Territory budgets
Homelessness
Description
This pre-budget submission, from the state's peak social service body, contains over 50 recommendations to government aimed to deliver fairness, prosperity and opportunity for Victorians.
Priority budget investments
- Make education affordable
- Supercharge social housing construction
- Stop homelessness before it starts
- Upgrade homes and expand concessions to cut bills and boost wellbeing
- Meet demand for community service workers
- Complement free TAFE to help struggling learners
- Replace child prisons with better alternatives
- Better support people leaving prison
- Boost community services quality and innovation with indexation certainty
- Foster strong, nurturing families
- Ensure that people experiencing mental illness continue to get the support they need
- Stop disability service gaps emerging
Publication Details
Copyright:
Victorian Council of Social Service 2019
Access Rights Type:
open
Post date:
13 Mar 2019
