State Budget
The Treasurer handed down the 2009-10 State Budget on 5 May 2009, allocating new funding to a range of policy initiatives. For an outline of Human Services initiatives, along with details of their costs, download the Information Kit and media releases below. The Department of Human Services Budget Information Kit and State Budget Media Releases are below. For further information visit the Victorian State Budget website.
Department of Human Services Budget Information Kit 2009-10
- Victorian State Budget 2009-10 Human Services information kit (PDF - 82.0 kb)
- Output summary (PDF - 92.5 kb)
- Right care, right place, right time (PDF - 87.1 kb)
- Supporting world class health facilities for all Victorians (PDF - 94.9 kb)
- Hospital and health workforce reform (PDF - 87.4 kb)
- Closing the Gap in Indigenous health (PDF - 87.0 kb)
- Supporting modern public health governance and regulation reform (PDF - 84.2 kb)
- Improving Victoria's disease prevention (PDF - 83.2 kb)
- Increasing access to dental services (PDF - 85.9 kb)
- Mental health reform (PDF - 91.1 kb)
- Supporting independence and community connections for Senior Victorians (PDF - 85.7 kb)
- Commencing implementation of the Autism State Plan (PDF - 88.3 kb)
- Disability services reform (PDF - 89.0 kb)
- Out of home care reform (PDF - 86.9 kb)
- Meeting emergency and crisis child protection needs (PDF - 84.1 kb)
- Sexual assault counselling services for children (PDF - 82.2 kb)
- Increasing the water and sewerage concession cap (PDF - 83.1 kb)
- Homelessness and Remote Indigenous Housing National Partnerships (PDF - 91.3 kb)
- Reforms to social housing (PDF - 84.3 kb)
- Creating liveable neighbourhoods and communities (PDF - 83.5 kb)
State Budget 2009 Media Releases
- $2.6 billion budget boost to build a better health system (PDF - 112.8 kb)
- $825.9 million to take action on hospital waiting lists (PDF - 106.5 kb)
- $52.8 million to boost Victoria's dental services and revention programs (PDF - 101.0 kb)
- $212.3 million boost for hospital building program (PDF - 119.2 kb)
- Shoulder to shoulder with the commonwealth (PDF - 122.2 kb)
- Victoria's record investment in out of home care (PDF - 105.8 kb)
- $150.6 million boost to mental health reform (PDF - 120.3 kb)
- $86.9 million investment in Victoria's disability services (PDF - 114.4 kb)
- Housing and homelessness package crucial to social safety net in tough global times (PDF - 112.1 kb)
- $60.6 million boost to support Victoria's seniors (PDF - 115.4 kb)
- $8.3 million Autism State Plan to support Victorians with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (PDF - 121.3 kb)
Previous Human Services State Budget Information Kits
You can view Human Services Budget Information Kits from previous State Budgets via the links below.
- 2008-09 State Budget Information Kit, including Media Releases (PDF - 866.6 kb)
- 2007-08 State Budget Information Kit, including Media Releases (PDF - 3.2 mb)
- 2006-07 State Budget Information Kit, including Media Releases (PDF - 748.1 kb)
- 2005-06 State Budget Information Kit, including Media Releases (PDF - 633.2 kb)
- 2004-05 State Budget Information Kit, including Media Releases (PDF - 1.9 mb)
- 2003-04 State Budget Fact Sheets and Media Releases (PDF - 1.5 mb)
- State Budget 2002-03 Information Kits (PDF - 336.2 kb)
- State Budget 2001-02 Information Kits (PDF - 179.7 kb)
- State Budget 2000-01 Information (PDF - 124.9 kb)