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Specialist homelessness services annual report 2019-20

Web report
Last updated: 11 Dec 2020
Topic: Homelessness services
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2020) Specialist homelessness services annual report 2019-20, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 08 December 2023.

APA

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2020). Specialist homelessness services annual report 2019-20. Retrieved from https://pp.aihw.gov.au/reports/homelessness-services/shs-annual-report-2019-20

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Specialist homelessness services annual report 2019-20. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 11 December 2020, https://pp.aihw.gov.au/reports/homelessness-services/shs-annual-report-2019-20

Vancouver

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Specialist homelessness services annual report 2019-20 [Internet]. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2020 [cited 2023 Dec. 8]. Available from: https://pp.aihw.gov.au/reports/homelessness-services/shs-annual-report-2019-20

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2020, Specialist homelessness services annual report 2019-20, viewed 8 December 2023, https://pp.aihw.gov.au/reports/homelessness-services/shs-annual-report-2019-20

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  • Contents

    • About
    • Summary
    • Policy framework for reducing homelessness and service response
    • Clients, services and outcomes
    • Client geography
    • Service geography
    • Unmet demand for specialist homelessness services
    • Clients who have experienced family and domestic violence
    • Young people presenting alone
    • Children on care and protection orders
    • Indigenous clients
    • Clients exiting custodial arrangements
    • Clients leaving care
    • Older clients
    • Clients with disability
    • Clients with a current mental health issue
    • Clients with problematic drug and/or alcohol use
    • Clients who are current or former members of the Australian Defence Force
    • Technical information
      • Data presentation and derivations
      • Rates information
      • Glossary
      • Abbreviations & symbols
      • References
  • Interactive data visualisation
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  • On any given day infographics
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The specialist homelessness services web report is an annual report summarising data from the Specialist Homelessness Services Collection (SHSC). It describes the characteristics of clients of specialist homelessness services, the services requested, outcomes achieved, and unmet requests for services.

  • Cat. no: HOU 322
  • Fact sheets
  • Infographics
  • Interactive data visualisation
  • Data
Findings from this report:
  • 290,500 clients were assisted by SHS agencies in 2019–20; almost 1.3 million clients since 2011–12

  • Most SHS clients were at risk of homelessness when seeking assistance; most were in private or other housing at the time

Contents

  • Summary
  • Policy framework
  • Clients, services and outcomes
  • Client geography
  • Service geography
  • Unmet demand
  • Clients who have experienced family and domestic violence
  • Young people presenting alone
  • Children on care and protection orders
  • Indigenous clients
  • Clients exiting custodial arrangements
  • Clients leaving care
  • Older clients
  • Clients with disability
  • Clients with a current mental health issue
  • Clients with problematic drug and/or alcohol use
  • Clients who are current or former members of the Australian Defence Force
  • Technical Information
    • Data presentation and derivations
    • Rates information
    • Glossary
    • Abbreviations & symbols
    • References
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Last updated 11/08/2023 v1.0

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