2024-25 Federal Pre-Budget Submission - January 2024 Recommendations - Housing and homelessness

Employment services • The Federal Government ensure savings from the abolition of the ParentsNext program are reinvested fully into the replacement program set to commence in November 2024 and are used to fund implementation of the recommendations from the House of Representatives Select Committee on Workforce Australia Employment Services that are relevant to people most facing disadvantage. [...] The Fund has the main objective of catalysing the transition to prevention by funding policy, program and practice changes, investing in evidence-based housing and support models, with the secondary objective of freeing up investment in housing and homelessness over the longer term as the need for cost-intensive crisis interventions diminishes. [...] Employment services Reinvest savings from the abolition of ParentsNext The funding that has been allocated in the Budget for providing ParentsNext must not be returned to consolidated revenue but rather reinvested entirely into the new replacement program planned to commence in November 2024 and towards resourcing the recommendations from the interim and final reports released by the House of Repr. [...] Recommendation • The Federal Government ensure savings from the abolition of the ParentsNext program are reinvested fully into the replacement program set to commence in November 2024 and are used to fund implementation of the recommendations from the House of Representatives Select Committee on Workforce Australia Employment Services that are relevant to people most facing disadvantage. [...] We acknowledge the comprehensive and robust work undertaken by the Nexus Centre Foundation Partner and funded through the Department of Social Services, to deliver a business case for the Nexus Centre to Government.