Uniting Communities is pleased to announce its partnership with award-winning South Australian hospitality group, Blanco Horner Hospitality Management (Blanco Horner), to provide catering services in the new U City Function Centre opening in mid-2019. The two leading South Australian organisations – with a history of more than 155 years between them – will join forces…
The task of finding a place in an aged care facility – for yourself or, more commonly, for a loved one – can seem daunting, particularly with negative stories emerging from the current Royal Commission into aged care. Generally, people start considering residential aged care when independent living becomes too difficult. This often comes after…
Many of Uniting Communities’ clients are people for whom maintaining their wellbeing and a decent standard of living is a daily challenge as they are reliant on receiving social security payments, which are too low and do not enable them to live a decent life. Our organisation supports this Bill and its objectives of ensuring…
Uniting Communities has made a submission to the Senate Standing Committees on Community Affairs – Community Affairs Referencing Committee regarding the government’s ParentsNext program. This submission provides responses to a number of the Inquiry’s Terms of Reference, with an emphasis on the disadvantaging effects that the ParentsNext program has on children and their parents, with…
The Prime Minister of Australia delivered the 11th annual Closing the Gap report today. Last year, three of the seven targets were on track and this year only two are on track. The gap appears to be widening, not narrowing. Simon Schrapel, CEO of Uniting Communities: ‘It seems that after more than ten years of…
Chief Executive, Simon Schrapel, has contributed an editorial to today’s In Daily, looking at the latest data on children being placed in out-of-home care and asking whether South Australia’s increased expenditure on child protection is leading to better outcomes. Read the full article.
On Wednesday 23 January 2019, a media release from the Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Senator Nigel Scullion, outlined changes to the Community Development Program (CDP) which he states will be implemented from March this year. The bulk of these changes had been included in the Social Secutiry Legislation Amendment (Community Development Program) Bill 2018 which…
As we age, we become more prone to heat stress. It is important that we are aware of some of the symptoms of heat-related illness, including rapid heartbeat, muscle cramps, nausea and vomiting, disorientation and confusion, fainting, delirium, paleness and hot dry skin. There are a number of factors that may increase the risk of…
As published in The Boomer lift-out of The Advertiser in December 2018. A broken bone will slow us down at the best of times but, as we age, it can result in losing independence or even needing support at home or in a residential aged care facility. Falls are the leading reason for older people…
