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St Vincent de Paul Society NSW welcomes the opportunity to make this pre-budget submission to the NSW Government outlining our suggested funding and policy priorities for the 2025-26 state budget and forward estimates. 

Our vision is for a more just and compassionate society, a society that prioritises people who are vulnerable, marginalised and experiencing disadvantage.

NSW 2025-26 Pre Budget Submission

The Society NSW and the NSW Government have a long history of collaborating to improve the lives of people in our communities who are doing it tough. For decades, we have worked together to provide on-the-ground assistance across NSW and implement structural reforms.
The Society’s 2025-26 Pre Budget Submission, ‘Continuing Good Works, Enhancing Services and Broadening Supports’, outlines five recommendations. They focus on:
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<li>Incentivising organisations to participate on complex case management panels to support people sleeping rough.</li>
<li>The provision of critical support for people to maintain tenancies through a transformational investment in tenancy supports.</li>
<li>Adequately funding existing services and increasing capacity of specialist homelessness services including creating a workforce development package to facilitate best practice and support. Providing support for the re-development of the Matthew Talbot Hostel to increase community engagement and maintain the Society NSW’s multi-disciplinary best practice model of care to support the most vulnerable populations in inner-city Sydney.</li>
<li>Supporting people with a dependence on alcohol and other drugs by adequate funding of existing services and an expansion of treatment funding.</li>
<li>Responding to the continuing cost of living crisis by making the Energy Accounts Payment Assistance (EAPA) scheme more efficient and effective, reaching more people to provide some relief from poverty. </li>
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Our Pre Budget Submission is available to read in full <a href="/media/rupdubsz/2025-26-pbs-vinnies-nsw.pdf" title="2025 26 PBS Vinnies NSW">here</a>.

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