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More funding for NSW elderly and disabled

The Minister for Ageing, Justine Elliot, and NSW Minister for Ageing and Disability Services, Kristina Keneally, have announced an extra $4.66 million in funding, for improved support and access for the elderly and younger people with a disability in NSW.

Total funding allocated for the Home and Community Care program in New South Wales in 2007-08 is $509.9 million.  This includes real growth funding of close to $19 million.

The projects funded in the package focus on centre-based day care, personal care, ‘help at home’ and social support – as well as on people with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse backgrounds.

The NSW HACC Program assisted more than 210,000 people via 1400 service providers in NSW last financial year.

The main components of the new funding are:

  • Additional funding for centre-based day-care services for Sutherland, Rockdale, Kogarah and Hurstville local government areas;
  • Transport services for the Gosford local government area; and
  • Counselling, support, information and advocacy services in the Auburn, Holroyd, Parramatta, Baulkham Hills and Blacktown local government areas.

In 2007-08 the Home and Community Care program received $1.652 billion nationally, $1.006 billion of this contributed by the Australian Government.

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