The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has released a new web report today - 15/12/2016
Specialist homelessness services 2015-16 (web report)
This is the fifth annual report of the Specialist Homelessness Services Collection, and the second as an online web report. The web report provides information about the clients of specialist homelessness agencies who were assisted in 2015-16, the services they requested, the support they received, and outcomes achieved. It also presents key trends from the 5 years of the collection.
Since July 2011, agencies have supported over 800,000 Australians who were either homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.
During 2015-16, an estimated 279,000 Australians were assisted by specialist homelessness services, equivalent to 1 in 85 Australians. One in 6 clients were female and 1 in 4 were Indigenous. They received over 22 million days of support and about 7 million nights of accommodation.
Nationally, on any given day 1,500 agencies across the country are supporting around 57,000 clients, including 10,000 young people who present alone and over 16,000 children in families being supported. Conversely, 275 times each day people were unable to be assisted by specialist homelessness agencies.
AIHW catalogue number WEB 162
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Download report: Specialist homelessness services 2015-16