NSW 2025-26 Pre Budget Submission

The Society NSW and the NSW Government have a long history of collaborating to improve the lives of people in our communities who are doing it tough. For decades, we have worked together to provide on-the-ground assistance across NSW and implement structural reforms.

The Society’s 2025-26 Pre Budget Submission, ‘Continuing Good Works, Enhancing Services and Broadening Supports’, outlines five recommendations. They focus on:

1. Incentivising organisations to participate on complex case management panels to support people sleeping rough.
2. The provision of critical support for people to maintain tenancies through a transformational investment in tenancy supports.
3. Adequately funding existing services and increasing capacity of specialist homelessness services including creating a workforce development package to facilitate best practice and support. Providing support for the re-development of the Matthew Talbot Hostel to increase community engagement and maintain the Society NSW’s multi-disciplinary best practice model of care to support the most vulnerable populations in inner-city Sydney.
4. Supporting people with a dependence on alcohol and other drugs by adequate funding of existing services and an expansion of treatment funding.
5. Responding to the continuing cost of living crisis by making the Energy Accounts Payment Assistance (EAPA) scheme more efficient and effective, reaching more people to provide some relief from poverty. 

Our Pre Budget Submission is available to read in full here.