Social Exclusion: The Sydney Experience (Update)
This latest report provides an additional five months data (to the end of July 2009) beyond that published in Social Exclusion: The Sydney Experience. The additional data highlights:
- An increase in demand for ER services;
- An apparent lag between the onset of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and increase in demand for ER;
- Increases in the proportion of our clients living in insecure housing and increases in accommodation as a presenting issue among service users;
- An increase in unemployment as a presenting issue among service users that reflects the still rising NSW unemployment rate; and
- An increase in the proportion of single person households among our service users.
The report highlights the ongoing need that the Global Financial Crisis of late 2008 has created for many of ANGLICARE’s service users. The full impact of the Global Financial Crisis on the persons and families that ANGLICARE serves is only nowbeing understood, as data collected over a longer period is examined and as the effects of the GFC can be better assessed.
