Despite being a critical service that provides immediate food relief and other essential items to those in acute need, emergency relief services are themselves experiencing precarity. To better understand this precarity of and the factors underpinning it, this research was conducted through a study into eight Uniting emergency relief services in Victoria and Tasmania.

This report provides evidence that the rising cost of living is deepening financial, housing and food insecurity, and impacting mental and physical health, while also increasing social isolation.