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Specialist homelessness services annual report 2020–21

Web report
Last updated: 07 Oct 2022
Topic: Homelessness services
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2022) Specialist homelessness services annual report 2020–21, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 29 January 2023.

APA

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2022). Specialist homelessness services annual report 2020–21. Retrieved from https://pp.aihw.gov.au/reports/homelessness-services/shs-annual-report-2020-21

MLA

Specialist homelessness services annual report 2020–21. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 07 October 2022, https://pp.aihw.gov.au/reports/homelessness-services/shs-annual-report-2020-21

Vancouver

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Specialist homelessness services annual report 2020–21 [Internet]. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2022 [cited 2023 Jan. 29]. Available from: https://pp.aihw.gov.au/reports/homelessness-services/shs-annual-report-2020-21

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2022, Specialist homelessness services annual report 2020–21, viewed 29 January 2023, https://pp.aihw.gov.au/reports/homelessness-services/shs-annual-report-2020-21

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  • Contents
    • About
    • Summary
    • Policy framework
    • Clients, services and outcomes
    • Client geography
    • Service geography
    • Unmet demand for specialist homelessness services
    • Clients who have experienced family and domestic violence
    • Clients with a current mental health issue
    • Indigenous clients
    • Clients with disability
    • Young people presenting alone
    • Children on care and protection orders
    • Older clients
    • Clients with problematic drug and/or alcohol use
    • Clients who are current or former members of the Australian Defence Force
    • Clients leaving care
    • Clients exiting custodial arrangements
    • Technical notes
      • Data presentation and derivations
      • Rates information
      • Glossary
      • Abbreviations & symbols
      • References
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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 327
  • Fact sheets
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  • NHHA Indicators
  • Data
Findings from this report:
  • 278,300 clients were assisted by SHS agencies in 2020–21; more than 1.4 million clients since 2011–12

  • More than half of SHS clients in 2020–21 had received SHS assistance at some point since the collection began in 2011–12

Contents


Overview

  • Summary
  • Policy framework

Support provided by Specialist Homelessness Services

  • Clients, services and outcomes

Geography

  • Client geography
  • Service geography

Unmet demand for support

  • Unmet demand for specialist homelessness services

Client groups

  • Clients who have experienced family and domestic violence
  • Clients with a current mental health issue
  • Indigenous clients
  • Clients with disability
  • Young people presenting alone
  • Children on care and protection orders
  • Older clients
  • Clients with problematic drug and/or alcohol use
  • Clients who are current or former members of the Australian Defence Force
  • Clients leaving care
  • Clients exiting custodial arrangements

​Technical information

  • Data presentation and derivations
  • Rates information
  • Glossary
  • Abbreviations & symbols
  • References
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