Financial Hardship and Emergency Relief in Victoria

Engels, Benno; Nissim, Rivkah; Landvogt, Kathy

doi:10.1080/0312407x.2011.603091

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“…1970s Commonwealth funds Emergency Relief, States and Territories deliver these services, including food vouchers and food provision 5 1974–96 The school meals program through the Disadvantaged School Programs policy implemented 6 1990s Foodbanks are formalised, 7 for example, Foodbank of Western Australia in 1994, 8 Foodbank Australia in 1996 9 and Foodbank Tasmania in 2010 10 …”

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“…The literature suggests that there are a number of marginalised populations that disproportionately access the charitable food sector, including asylum seekers and refugees, 10,17 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, 49,52 people receiving social security benefits 53 and people experiencing homelessness 9,37,54 . A large peer‐reviewed study on emergency relief recipients (n=2,269) was conducted in Victoria and it identified 58% of participants as female and 32% as sole parents 6 . The main reason people sought out emergency relief services was to access food (39.6%) 6 …”

Section: Box 1: Selected Milestones For the Charitable Food Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A large peer‐reviewed study on emergency relief recipients (n=2,269) was conducted in Victoria and it identified 58% of participants as female and 32% as sole parents 6 . The main reason people sought out emergency relief services was to access food (39.6%) 6 …”

Section: Box 1: Selected Milestones For the Charitable Food Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To date, no peer‐reviewed studies characterise the breadth of this sector in Australia. Some research has examined: “first world hunger” in Australia, 4 the emergency food relief providers, 5,6 churches and faith based services, 7 school meals, 8 nutrition of clients and food served 9–11 and the strategies and stakeholders 12…”

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Still serving hot soup? Two hundred years of a charitable food sector in Australia: a narrative review

Lindberg

Whelan²,

Lawrence

et al. 2015

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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Objective: Despite the importance of the charitable food sector for a proportion of the Australian population, there is uncertainty about its present and future contributions to wellbeing. This paper describes its nature and examines its scope for improving health and food security. Methods:The review, using systematic methods for public health research, identified peerreviewed and grey literature relevant to Australian charitable food programs (2002 to 2012).Results: Seventy publications met the criteria and informed this paper. The sector includes food banks, more than 3,000 community agencies and 800 school breakfast programs. It provides food for up to two million people annually. The scope extends beyond emergency food relief and includes case management, advocacy and other support. Weaknesses include a food supply that is sub-optimal, resource limitations and lack of evidence to evaluate or support their work towards food security. Conclusions:The sector supports people experiencing disadvantage and involves multiple organisations, working in a variety of settings, to provide food for up to 8% of the population. The limits on the sector's capacity to address food insecurity by itself must be acknowledged so that civil society, government and the food industry can support sufficient, nutritious and affordable food for all.

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Section: Box 1: Selected Milestones For the Charitable Food Sectormentioning

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Section: Box 1: Selected Milestones For the Charitable Food Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Box 1: Selected Milestones For the Charitable Food Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

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Still serving hot soup? Two hundred years of a charitable food sector in Australia: a narrative review

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Whelan²,

Lawrence

et al. 2015

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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“…Sole parents on social security payments are regarded as experiencing significant hardship (Saunders & Naidoo 2009). A recent study showed that a third of recipients of emergency relief were sole parents who were struggling to meet essential living expenses (Engles et al . 2009).…”

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Jumping through hoops – the cost of compliance on sole parents

McArthur¹,

Thomson²,

Winkworth

2012

Child & Family Social Work

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Australian governments along with other western countries have made significant changes to the welfare system with a focus on encouraging sole parents on social security payments to move into paid work. This paper reports on in‐depth interviews with 48 sole parents about their experiences with the welfare‐to‐work process and with a range of other services. Although parents reported some positive encounters, they also described a range of negative experiences, including how they needed to repeatedly prove their entitlement to help, leaving them feel as if they were undeserving of support. The study has demonstrated that it is often the most vulnerable parents who feel under close scrutiny and who have to work extra hard to get the help they need. These experiences can also see them disengaging from services. The findings show how the current policy environment adds to the complexity of sole parents' lives reinforcing their disadvantage.

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Financial hardship assistance behind the scenes: Insights from financial counsellors

Ali

Bourova

Ramsay

2017

Aust J Social Issues

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Financial hardship, in a credit society such as Australia, can affect almost anyone. To protect consumers from the negative impacts of financial hardship-which can include the stresses of enforcement action and disconnection from essential services-legal protections have been incorporated into the regulatory frameworks for the consumer credit, energy, water and telecommunications sectors. In this article, we outline the findings of our study, which used a survey of financial counsellors around Australia and focus group interviews with Victorian financial counsellors to examine how these legal protections are being implemented by service providers in these four sectors. Our findings highlight a tendency on the part of service providers to take a generic, one-size-fits-all approach to compliance with these legal protections that prevents them from effectively assisting consumers struggling with debt. We discuss the particular shortcomings of this approach in the context of consumers living on low incomes-especially Centrelink incomes-and outline the policy implications of our findings for assisting these vulnerable groups.

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Financial Hardship and Emergency Relief in Victoria

Cited by 14 publications

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Still serving hot soup? Two hundred years of a charitable food sector in Australia: a narrative review

Still serving hot soup? Two hundred years of a charitable food sector in Australia: a narrative review

Jumping through hoops – the cost of compliance on sole parents

Financial hardship assistance behind the scenes: Insights from financial counsellors

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