VCOSS budget submissions

2020 — A State of Wellbeing

• Shift to a modern wellbeing budget
• Urgently boost funding to frontline mental health
• Stop stealth funding cuts to community organisations
• End the damaging funding ‘drip-feed’ to service providers
• Progress self-determination for Aboriginal Victorians
• A Big Build to End Homelessness
• Make homes safe and liveable for low-income Victorians
• Close service gaps for people with disability
• Continue the pivot to crime prevention
• Make public education genuinely affordable
• If a young person is in state care, look after them until they’re 21
• Support communities to confront climate change

   2020 VCOSS Victorian Budget Submission

2019 — Delivering Fairness

• 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 Invest in prevention and early intervention services for families.
• Ensure that people experiencing mental illness continue to get the support they need
• Stop disability service gaps emerging

   2019 VCOSS Victorian Budget Submission

2018 — Building a better Victoria

• Develop the community services industry
• Waive fees for high-growth community services qualifications
• Accelerate social housing growth
• Introduce minimum rental standards
• Save community mental health
• Embed Aboriginal self-determination
• Help students with disability thrive in education
• Replace child prisons with better alternatives
• Increase focus on preventing family violence
• Keep supporting young people after they leave state care
• Provide more funding for disability advocacy
• Assist Victorians struggling with housing and energy costs

   2018 VCOSS State Budget Submission

2017 — Empowering all Victorians

• Build more social housing
• Help students with disability succeed at school
• Support every child with high quality early learning
• Retain community mental health rehabilitation services
• Empower young people leaving care
• Empower people with disability through independent advocacy services
• Cut people’s bills with energy efficiency
• Improve access to legal assistance
• Empower communities to deliver local solutions with a social innovation fund
• Develop a community sector workforce plan

   2017 VCOSS State Budget Submission

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