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This factsheet brings together a range of important data and information for the first time to show the true dimensions of housing stress and homelessness in the city of Canberra.

This report tracks changes in the cost of living, particularly for low income households in the ACT. It builds on previous ACTCOSS Canberra’s CPI continues to increase above the national ratework on costs of living in the ACT.

In this submission, ACTCOSS recommends the ACT Government shifts their current model of delivery early childhood education and care. We propose an approach that privileges cultural safety and appropriateness, sets targets for participation of disengaged, vulnerable and disadvantaged families, and offers a mix of structured and more flexible settings.

Joint submission by the ACT Energy Consumers Policy Consortium on the ACT Government’s Climate Strategy to a Net Zero Emissions Territory. It is imperative the strategy has a framework that supports consumers who are vulnerable and disadvantaged.

ACTCOSS supports measures that improve security of employment, especially for people in low wage industries or roles. In this submission to the ACT Government's Secure Local Jobs Package, ACTCOSS writes that the implementation of the Secure Local Jobs Package in community service contracts should comply with the commitments made in the partnership approach outlined in the policies and agreements governing the relationships between the ACT Government and community organisations in the ACT, including the 2001 Social Compact, the 2004 Community Sector Funding Policy, the renewal of the Social Compact in 2012, the revision of the standard Service Funding Agreements in 2016 and the ACT Community Services Industry Strategy 2016-2026.

In this submission to the ACT Government's inquiry into the future sustainability of health funding in the ACT, ACTCOSS focusses on gaps and intersectoral issues in reforms where health, ageing and disability meet. We also note broader priorities for investment at the health disability interface within mainstream systems.

In this joint submission between ACTCOSS and the Youth Coalition of the ACT to the ACT Government's Future of Education conversation, we recommend that the ACT Government develop, cost and fully resource a strategy to improve equity in education in the ACT.

This ACT Cost of Living Report shows that there has been a decline in the affordability of telecommunications for people on low incomes in the ACT. It provides recommendations to improve affordability and reduce the digital divide.

In recognition of International Day of People with Disability 2017, ACTCOSS has produced a factsheet on disability and access to health services.