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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2002 Week 4 Hansard (11 April) . . Page.. 1093 ..
2a) As can be seen from Table 7 of the Australians Living on the Edge IV report (a copy of which is attached), the types of requests are related to core services for which the various individual organisations were established - refer to the first column of Table 7 for type of service.
2b) The number of requests declined by each type of service can be seen in the second column of Table 7 of the report (a copy of which is attached).
3) The information requested is not available in the Australians Living on the Edge IV report. ACTCOSS advises that the community organisations were not asked to supply this information.
4) The information requested is not available in the Australians Living on the Edge IV report. ACTCOSS advises that the community organisations were not asked to supply this information.
This table has been extracted from page 7 of the ACTCOSS report entitled
Australian's Living on the Edge IV- October 2001.
Table 7: Number of people who sought but did not receive the core service(s) provided by agencies (January to June 2001) (ACT)
Type of service No. of clients*
Aged Care 419Disability 242
Individual and/or family support 8,665
Children's services 35
Employment 30
Advocacy 1,060
Crisis 150
Housing 250
Multi-Service 750
Health 1,500
Community development and/or support 1,917
Total 15,018
The results for the six months July to December 2000 show that there has been a 3.3% increase in the numbers of people who did not receive the service they sought between July and December 2000 and January and June 2001 (moving from 14,535 to 15,018 people) in the ACT. This compares with a national increase of 4%.* These figures may include some people who were not eligible for the service.
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