19 June 2013

Council of Social Service of NSW (NCOSS)66 Albion Street

Surry Hills NSW 2010

ph: 02 9211 2599Email: info@ncoss.org.au

Website: www.ncoss.org.au

1. NSW Overview

2. Dept of Attorney General & Justice

3. Dept of Education & Communities

4. Dept of Family & Community Services

5. Dept of Finance & Services

6. Ministry of Health

7. Dept of Premier & Cabinet

8. Dept of Planning & Infrastructure

9. Dept of Trade & Investment, Regional Infrastructure & Services

10. Transport for NSW

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NSW Treasurer◦ “jobs, housing and infrastructure”

◦ 3 pillars – improving services, delivering infrastructure and protecting the vulnerable

“Business as usual” for community sector◦ Enhancements where they happen have largely been

expected

◦ In most cases growth in funding reflects CPI and ERO supplementation

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Sydney CPI: 2.5%

Wage Price Index 3.25%

Unemployment: 5.5%

Gross State Product: 2.75%

Sector indexation 2.4 to 2.5% (tbc)

ERO supplementation $297m over 4 years

2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17

Revenue ($m)

62,573 65,731 68,615 71,001

Expenses($m)

64,462 66,295 68,459 70,466

Budget result ($m)

(1,890) (563) 157 535

Traditional result ($m)*

(329) 829 1,305 1,526

2012/13Forecast

289 562 1,172

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* Accounting standards relating to superannuation have

changed the way the overall results are calculated

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Healt h

28%

Ot her Purposes

7%

Recreat ion and

Cult ure

3%

Educat ion

21%

Housing and

Communit y

Amenit ies

3%

Transport and

Communicat ion

13%

Economic Affairs

4%

General Public

Services

3%

Public Order and

Safet y

10%

Social Secur it y and

Welfare

8%

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Department of Attorney General & Justice

Total budget (expenses & capital expenditure) is $5.86m, a decrease of 0.5% or $28.6 (with CPI, decrease of 3.4%).

Budget & NSW 2021Performance Report Highlights

$2m for implementation of Youth on Track Scheme

$5.6m to implement reforms to the Bail Act 1978

Stage 3 Metropolitan Drug Facility

Continued support for NGO person-centred case management services

Offender initiatives – focus on program completion rates

Launching redesigned Joint Support Program

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Legal Aid Commission of NSW

Total budget (expenses & capital expenditure) is $2.5m, a decrease of 2.7% or $7.2m (with CPI, 0.2% increase).

Budget & NSW 2021Performance Report Highlights

$1m recurrent funding to Legal Aid for regional outreach legal services re: Work Development Orders

$0.7m to Legal Aid for homeless persons legal service in four regional areas

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Pre-Budget Submission

Department of Attorney General and Justice

Crime prevention strategy

Reduce remand population

Long-term housing for released prisoners

Rehabilitation programs within prisons

Legal Aid Commission of NSW

Community Legal Centres

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Minimal increases overall, most below indexation -some reductions

A few specific increases for small initiatives in each portfolio

Some capital infrastructure and maintenance

+$301 million early childhood education services (up $72m)

Schools – NSW primary & secondary schools -

$10.2 billion for NSW government-run primary and secondary schools

$320m for school maintenance

$204m for minor works on school infrastructure

$128m to continue major building projects including enhancing information technology and business support systems

$21m to start 8 new building projects including 3 new schools

$995m for non government schools

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$2.3billion to provide vocational education & training, including providing services through TAFE NSW Institutes and other registered training providers

$91m to start 9 new building & IT projects & continue existing projects

Citizens and Communities

$23m in Community Building Partnerships for community infrastructure

$1.6 m for the NSW Government‟s new Aboriginal Affairs plan OCHRE (Opportunity, Choice, Healing, Responsibility, Empowerment)

$23 m for Community Building Partnerships program

Note: Children‟s Guardian and Working with Children Check responsibilities to be transferred to Family and Community Services cluster

Sport & Recreation

$10m upgrades to Sport to Sport and recreation centres

Note:$22m for Sydney Cricket Ground stand redevelopment works;

$108 m for programs including providing grants to peak sporting bodies and managing government-owned or controlled sporting and recreation facilities

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DISABILITY

ADHC Agency Budget: $2.82 billion including capital

DisabilityCare Australia NDIS

◦ Hunter Launch Site begins 1 July 2013 for 3000 people in Newcastle in the first year. Cost over 3 years $550m plus $35m over 4 years for entire Launch site for 10,000 people including Lake Macquarie & Maitland.

◦ Full roll out for NSW from 1 July 2016

Commonwealth & NSW Governments have agreed to determine the most appropriate funding mechanism for the Scheme by July 2014

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DISABILITY :

Stronger Together fully funded $440 this year but realigned towards the NDIS. Highlights include:

◦ $54m over 4 years ($16m in 2013-14) retrofit fire safety measures and sprinklers to 330 ADHC supported accommodation homes & facilities under the new Fire and Building Safety Program.

◦ 900 supported accommodation places

◦ 2,800 places for flexible respite

◦ 300 places for support networks for families, parents & people with disabilities

Minister announced the development of a Transition Strategy for the NDIS

Poor uptake of the Payroll Tax Rebate: $10m over 5 years.

◦ This gives $4000 per permanent job for employers who employ a person from the Transition to Work Program.

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COMMUNITY CARE SUPPORTS PROGRAM(previously Home and Community Care)

Support for non-Aboriginal people with disability under 65 & Aboriginal people under 50. Funding responsibility for non-Aboriginal people over 65 and Aboriginal people over 50 lies with Commonwealth.

HACC in NSW for younger people with disability renamed Community Care Supports Program in October 2012.

NSW Government funding: $208 million for 2013-14. Reduction of $23 million from previous year, or 12.7% in real terms.

Home Care Service of NSW receiving $229 million in total(incl. Commonwealth funding for people aged over 65/50).

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Community Care Initiatives in 2013-14

„Future proofing‟ projects to support community careproviders as funding transitions to the NDIS.

NCOSS discussion paper: „Get this party started‟ recommendshow ADHC can support a transition to person centredapproaches in community care.

HACC and Aged Care Reforms

HACC services for older people to be consolidated into theHome Support Program from 2015

Growth for HACC and other community care programs forolder people in Commonwealth Budget

Consultations underway for HACC service types

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Domestic & Family Violence Funding Program to receive modest increase; total funding $3 million

Staying Home, Leaving Violence Program: $3.9 million

New initiative: Investing in Women - $200,000 to support women & girls to enter non-traditional occupations

NSW Domestic & Family Violence Framework under development

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NSW AGEING STRATEGY

Whole-of-government strategy to plan for population ageing and direct government policy relating to older people. Ageing Strategy Implementation Plan to be released publicly in 2013.

Spending initiatives:

◦ $3.7 for projects relating to the Ageing Strategy

◦ $1 million for advocacy & peak orgs working with older people

◦ $600,000 for research projects

OFFICE FOR CARERS

NSW Carer Strategy under development – to be released 2014

Priority areas: economic participation, health & wellbeing, access to information, and community engagement

$3.5 million spending in 2013-14

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Very little new expenditure and minimal growth

Reduced allocation to earlier intervention ◦ Strengthening Families moved to Statutory Child Protection

◦ CS “corporate” staff reallocated across all service areas

◦ Reduced $ for Charitable Goods Transport – now only fund food transport

◦ Community Builders Fixed Term to be revised with no new round in 2013/14 although commitment to a new round in 2014/15 ($10m)

Reduction in CS staffing by 440 FTE (2011/12 to 2013/14)

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Service area

2012-13revised expenditure($000)

2012-13 expenditure to budget($000)

2013-14 expenditure($000)

2013-14% increase or decrease

2013-14 Real increase or decrease

Targeted Earlier intervention

$262,220 - $11,901 $245,798 -6.3% -8.5%

Statutory child protection

$423,000 - $2,287 $445,601 +5.3% +2.8%

OOHC $776,828 +47,323 $798,917 +2.8% +0.3%

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The Budget for the newly created FACS Social Housing Assistance and Tenancy Support program increases from $678.7m to $755.6m. This includes:

◦ $162m for tenancy management by Housing NSW,

◦ $106m for headleasing of properties ($66 m for community housing and $40m for public housing, and

◦ $52m (TBC) for private rental products.

Further briefing planned for next week. We are seeking to clarify how much is Commonwealth funding and the distribution of NAHA funding across four programs.

No new measures. The total number of tenancies managed by HNSW, the AHO and CHPs projected to decline slightly to 140,700.

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The total Budget for the AHO increases modestly from $110.7m in 2012-13 to $114.5m in 2013-14, including:

◦ $49m for new housing, largely funded by the Commonwealth under the NPARIH,

◦ $26m for repairs and maintenance for Aboriginal community housing properties, and

◦ $11m for capacity building under the Build and Grow Strategy for Aboriginal community housing.

NCOSS is pleased to note that the AHO once again has its own CEO and Board.

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The overall allocation for FACS‟ Homelessness Services increased from $228.7m in 2012-13 to $251.9m. Of this there is provision for $220.1m for grants and subsidies, including:

◦ $138 m for Specialist Homelessness Services;

◦ $65 m for a 12 month extension of the National Partnership on Homelessness (NPAH);

◦ An unspecified amount for Temporary Accommodation.

While the allocation appears to have increased substantially from 2012-13, this is due to the rollover of unspent project funds, rather than new initiatives.

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Total Budget for the Land & Housing Corporation not included anywhere in the Budget.

$117.3m for new supply, down from $138.6m in 2012-13. Includes $36.8m for 196 new community housing dwellings for vulnerable clients (NPAH?).

Asset improvement (maintenance) $157.1m, down from $194.5m in 2012-13.

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Total Budget $56.2m up from $54.5m. Funded by investment earnings of $58.8m.

Allocation for grants and subsidies $28.8m, compared to $28.7m in 2012-13. No breakdown provided between TAAP, NILS, Financial Counselling etc.

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Total budget (expenses & capital expenditure) is $1.6m, a decrease of 0.9% or $15,000 (with CPI, decrease of 3.4%).

Budget/Media Release Highlights

$5m for regulatory reform which specifically referred to residential parks.

Additional $500,000 for Consumer, Trader & Tenancy Tribunal to increase hearing hours, improve dispute resolution timeframes.

Pre-Budget Submission

No additional funding for boarding house reform initiatives.

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Increase of 21% in real terms to manage collection of revenue, fines and debts

Increase of $30m in grants and subsidies largely due to the extension of the Jobs Action Plan which provides a payroll tax rebate for eligible businesses employing new staff

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Overview

Total budget =$19bn

Expenses = $17.9bn (h 5 %)

Capital = $1.1bn (h 10 %)

Health = one quarter of NSW budget (28%)

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Significant new initiatives:

Increased patient services/activity = $220m

Integrated care = $30m

Ambulance services & reform = $15m

Radiotherapy = $7m

Enable NSW = $7m

Palliative care = $5m ($10m total)

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NCOSS PBS 2013-14 NSW Budget

Oral health –$35.5m/yr ($213m over 3 yrs)

Primary & Community Health -$208m / yr / /

Community Managed Mental Health - $1m/yr

Transport for Health - Increase funding to $11.7m

ComPacks - $18.7m/yr

Program of Appliances for Disabled People – $24.4m / /

NSW Health NGO Program

Indexation =2.5% (+ Modern Award)

NSW Partnerships for Health replacing NGO Program from 2014

Procurement commencing mid-late 2013

Timeframes to be discussed at NGO Advisory Committee meeting in August

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$20.9 m allocated for the roll out of the new planning system and legislation.

There are a multitude of infrastructure funds to accompany new housing activity, including the Local Infrastructure Growth Scheme, UAP Precinct Support Scheme and Housing Acceleration Fund.

Total infrastructure budget is $15.5 billion, much the same as in 2012-13 ($15.0 b). Biggest spenders are in the transport ($7.3b or 47%), electricity ($3.3b or 21%) and water ($902m or 6%) sectors, with Health ($1.1b or 8%) and Education ($538m or 3%) the largest spending human services agencies. Social housing gets only 2% of the state‟s infrastructure budget.

Audit Office – real increase of 3.5% in expenditure not matched by revenue which has a real decrease of 1.6%

ICAC - <0.1% real increase in recurrent appropriation but with a special grant from DPC to cover current investigations and inquiries ($3.2m in 2012-13 and $1m in 2013-14)

IPART – 4.8% real decrease in recurrent appropriation

Ombudsman – 4% real decrease in recurrent appropriation with a special grant of $2.2m to continue with Strike Force Emblem investigation.

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Registered clubs are taxed at lower rates on gaming machines than hotels

The cost of this to the Government‟s revenue base was $777m in 2012-13 and is forecast to cost $805m in 2013-14

Revenue from gaming machine taxes in 2012-13 was $667m from clubs and $509m from hotels

Forecast revenue for 2013-14 is $694m from clubs and $536m from hotels

$15m will be available through the Responsible Gambling Fund for measures to deal with problem gambling

$11m will be available for Category 3 projects under the ClubGRANTS scheme

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$247m to assist eligible NSW households meet energy needs and reduce impact of power prices

This figure includes $206,910m for Low Income Household Rebate and $18,970 for Family Energy Rebate

Energy Accounts Payments Assistance Scheme (EAPA), $15m. No increase in EAPA budget from last year even though the vouchers will increase from $30 to $50 each on 1 July. Not extended to residents of caravan parks.

Low Income Household Rebate to be extended to eligible residents of retirement villages on 1 July

Budget Paper 3: „Reforming the state-owned networks to drive down electricity prices, delivering assistance to customers and implementing protections for vulnerable customers‟

IPART‟s price determination: 1.7% increase in electricity prices

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Total of $14.6 billion spending on Transport:

$9.5b to public transport, $5.1b to Roads and Maritime

Reversed previous years where spending for roads was higher than public transport

Transport for NSW expenditure is $11.3b, an increase of 9% from last year‟s $10.4b

Capital expenditure includes $4.1b for public transport (up 32% from last yr) and $3.2b for roads

Key public transport initiatives include $806m for North West Rail Link, $353m for South West Rail Link, $105m for Wynyard Walk and $75m for the CBD and South East Light Rail (none of these are new announcements)

Road projects include the $1.8b Westconnex; of which $140m allocated this year.

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Transport Access Program (train station disability access and upgrades) 195 m, up 47 m from last year‟s 148 m. TAP priorities are customer needs and demographics, patronage, proximity to key services such as hospitals, accessibility of nearby transport interchanges

Taxi Transport Subsidy Scheme The bad news: no enhancement funding for the TTSS. This year‟s funding is 29.4m an increase of only 2 m from last year‟s allocation of 27.4 m The subsidy cap of half the fare will remain at $30

Community Transport Program 7.5 m (includes the 3 m enhancement announced last year of 12 m over 4 yrs). In addition there will be 0.5 m for accreditation. HACC CT is $49.5 m

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Service measures: public transport patronage across Sydney metro

The Budget Papers (No 3) show a steady increase in City Rail and Metropolitan Bus patronage

City Rail 2010/11 – 2012/13:

294.5 m to 308.3 m journeys

Metropolitan Bus: 2010/11 – 2012/13

198.7 m to 207 m journeys

Full analysis in NCOSS News and website www.ncoss.org.au

NCOSS staff can be contacted on 92112599, or by email:

Alison Peters, Director alison@ncoss.org.au

Christine Regan, Acting Deputy Director chris@ncoss.org.au

Solange Frost, Senior Policy Officer solange@ncoss.org.au

Warren Gardiner, Senior Policy Officer warren@ncoss.org.au

Rashmi Kumar, Senior Policy Officer rashmi@ncoss.org.au

Robyn Edwards, Senior Policy Officer robyn@ncoss.org.au

Sue Gillett, Senior Policy Officer gathering@ncoss.org.au

Amanda Smithers, Senior Project Officer msu@ncoss.org.au

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