What are Community services? Although no nation-wide recognised definition of Community services exist in Australia at the time and community services usually relate with health and housing services, it is commonly accepted and Federal government identifies the following services as community support services: Aged care services Services for people with disabilities Child protection services Youth justice services There are common KPR indicators and achievement outcomes related to equity, effectiveness and efficiency of service provision for the aged care, disability, child protection and youth justice service areas. The Report on Government Services 2019  gives us a good understanding of the Government involvement in the community and disability services. In particular, Chapter 15 Services for people with disability and attachment tables (PDF – 5088 Kb) focuses on assistance provided by governments through specialist disability services under the National Disability Agreement (NDA) as well as the broad social and economic outcomes of people with disability. In 2017-18, total government expenditure on specialist disability services provided under the NDA was $6.4 billion, which represents a decrease from 2016-17 by about of 17.8%. There was $7.7 billion support committed to the NDIS for 2017‑18. As the NDIS is progressively implemented to replace services under the NDA, funding for the NDIS will increase. In 2016-17 disability support services continued to transition from the NDA to the NDIS, with 52 348 participants identified as NDIS participants at 30 June 2017. These were mostly existing State/Territory service users who had transferred at some time from NDA services. Community Programs The main goals of the Federal and State governments are ensuring people with disability and their carers have an enhanced quality of life, enjoy choice and wellbeing, achieve independence, social and economic participation, and full inclusion in the community programs and community services. To achieve these goals, the Performance … Continue reading Government support of community and disability services