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Here you’ll find news, announcements, and media releases from ACTCOSS and the Gulanga Program, along with major community sector news.
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ACTCOSS Board 2019-20 – Call for nominations
The ACT Council of Social Service Inc. (ACTCOSS) is inviting Delegates from Member Organisations, and Associate Members, to nominate for five (5) Board positions that will be open for election at our Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Tuesday 12 November at 4pm at the ACTCOSS offices in Weston. Members will be sent an email with […]
Joint media release: Better rent protections welcome
Joint media release, ACTCOSS and the Tenants’ Union ACT (TUACT). The Tenants’ Union ACT (TUACT) and the ACT Council of Social Service (ACTCOSS) today welcomed improved protections for renters in the ACT being introduced into the Assembly by ACT Attorney General Gordon Ramsay MLA. Key changes will increase the notice period from 4 weeks to […]
Joint media release: ACTCOSS and Youth Coalition welcome recognition of school-community partnerships for student safety and wellbeing
Joint media release, ACTCOSS and the Youth Coalition of the ACT. The ACT Council of Social Service (ACTCOSS) and the Youth Coalition of the ACT have welcomed the release of the Standing Committee on Education, Employment and Youth Affairs’ report on the Management and Minimisation of Bullying and Violence in ACT Schools. In May 2019, […]
Health access for people with disability
ACTCOSS has been working with project partners and the Office For Disability to understand what can be learned about barriers to, and enablers of, better access for people with disabilities to health care in the ACT and region. The work is part of the ACT’s commitment to the National Disability Strategy. Imagining Better Report […]
Media release: Health barriers focus of new report
Barriers to health care access by people with a disability are the focus of a new report being released today by the ACT Council of Social Service (ACTCOSS) called Imagining Better – Reflections on access, choice and control in ACT health services for people with disability. The Executive Director of ACTCOSS, Susan Helyar, said, “The […]
Media release: Groups call for mandatory insulation to make the most of recent EEIS changes
Joint statement from ACTCOSS, Better Renting and Conservation Council ACT Region. ACT community organisations have called on the ACT Government to require ceiling insulation in rental properties to complement recent changes to its Energy Efficiency Improvement Scheme, announced today. Under the expansion of the EEIS scheme, households can receive a rebate from their energy retailer […]
Community Joint Statement for Healthy Affordable Homes
All Australians deserve a healthy, safe, affordable home. Community organisations call for a national strategy for low energy homes. Rapidly rising energy prices over the last decade have left many Australians struggling to afford the energy services they need to live a safe and healthy life. But price is only part of the energy hardship […]
Media release: Statement on Constitutional Recognition of Australia’s First Peoples
Joint statement from the Councils of Social Service (COSS) Network. Formally acknowledging and reconciling the wrongs perpetrated against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people—and their long legacy of ongoing trauma—must be a national priority. It’s crucial the Federal Government works genuinely with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and organisations to get the process and […]