The Productivity Commission’s Report on Government Services (RoGS) provides information on the equity, effectiveness and efficiency of government services in Australia. It contains a large section on Community Services. It breaks the sector into four categories:

• aged care;
• services for people with disabilities;
• child protection services;
• and youth justice services.

It is an enormous sector, second only to health. Total Federal, state and territory government recurrent expenditure on community services was $31.2 billion in 2016‑17, around 13.9 percent of total government expenditure on services covered in RoGS analysis.

Aged care was the largest contributor ($17.4 billion, followed by services for people with disability ($7.8 billion), child protection services ($5.2 billion) and youth justice services ($0.8 billion).

The report chapter on Services for people with disability category currently focuses on assistance provided by governments through specialist disability services under the National Disability Agreement (NDA) as well as the broad social and economic outcomes of people with disability. Performance information on the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) will be developed for future reports.

Go to the Productivity Commission’s website to access the report and get more information.