• Due to lack of funds, 68% of community services are unable to help all people who seek assistance.

• One out of every three times that people seek help from housing services they are turned away.

• Legal services turn someone away for every six times they are able to help.

• 9% of the times people sought financial and material support they were turned away due to lack of service funds.

• There was a 6.5% increase in the number of times people were turned away from a community service in 2003-4 compared to the previous year.

• 67% of community services believe that “clients have more complex needs than last year”.

[Source: <http://www.acoss.org.au>. Got a shockfact? Email .]

From Green Left Weekly, April 20, 2005.
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