Budget 2008-09
Kathy’s story
Kathy, a young woman whose life is filled with study, work and friends, is featured in the 2008 Share your Story calendar through which Queenslanders share their experience of living with a disability.
“I think that people with a disability have the same capacity to have a fulfilling life as everyone else,” Kathy says.
“I don’t let my disability stand in the way of furthering my skills and abilities so that I can work to my best.”
Service Delivery Statements are available on the Queensland Treasury website.
Message from the Minister
Budget highlights
Disability Services Queensland’s 2008–09 Budget is $1.235 billion in recurrent funding comprising $825.1 million for disability services, $386.3 million for home and community care and $23.1 million for mental health services.
The department’s 2008–09 Budget includes additional recurrent funding of $21.5 million, $5 million in non-recurrent funding and capital funding of $2 million.
Funding services at key points in people’s lives
- $15 million recurrent and $2 million capital funding in 2008–09 ($60 million recurrent and $8 million capital funding over four years) to deliver early intervention and prevention responses to achieve positive long-term outcomes for people with a disability and their families. This funding will target support at key transition points of an individual’s life by expanding capacity in the following existing service areas: accommodation support; family support; post school services; support to young adults exiting the care of the State; and respite and day services.
Responding to personal emergencies and critical situations
- $10 million funding in 2008–09 and $5 million recurrent funding from 2009–2010 ($25 million in funding over four years) to support people with a disability and their families who have experienced crisis situations.
Supporting mental health patients’ transition back into the community
- $1.5 million recurrent funding in 2008–09 ($6 million in funding over four years) to support people with a psychiatric disability to transition from mental health acute and extended treatment facilities to sustainable community living through the Housing and Support Program.
| 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State Disability Funding | 279.43 | 346.15 | 404.04 | 515.25 | 595.17 | 699.25 |
| Commonwealth Disability Funding | 105.46 | 108.59 | 116.39 | 118.73 | 121.66 | 125.90 |
| HACC Funding – Qld Health | 224.45 | 248.24 | 277.45 | 308.87 | - | - |
| HACC Funding – DSQ | - | - | - | - | 348.50 | 386.25 |
| Mental health NGO Funding – DSQ | - | - | - | - | 16.50 | 23.13 |
Over the last five years the level of state funding for disability services has increased by $419.8 million, an increase of 150.2 percent.
Service Delivery Statements
Service Delivery Statements are available on the Queensland Treasury website.
Previous budgets
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Last updated June 2008