Make a submission to the Productivity Commission Inquiry
The Turnbull Government, before the recent election, set up a Productivity Commission Inquiry into how community services can be subject to increased “competition and contestability”. More detail on ASU members’ concerns with the proposals can be found here: Community services are not for sale!.
>> Make a submission online here at the Productivity Commission website
Take a few minutes to tell the Productivity Commission that we say NO to for-profit businesses making money from supporting vulnerable people.
Your submission doesn’t have to be long. Personal stories are important. The kinds of things you might want to include in your submission are:
- The kind of service you work in, the people you support and how long you’ve worked in the sector.
- Why social and community services should not be open to private providers to tender for government funding.
- Why not-for profits are better placed to deliver community services (e.g. connected to the community).
- The uncertainty that constant tendering and competition between providers creates for you in your work and its impact on the people you support.
- Any measures that your organisation has already had to take because of funding uncertainty (e.g. job cuts, closure of programs, less specialist services).
- The impact of more competition in the sector on you and your colleagues (e.g. stress & burnout, less permanent jobs, impact on the people you support if workers left the sector).
>> Make a submission online here at the Productivity Commission website
NOTE:
- Submissions will be published on the Commission's website and remain there as public documents indefinitely.
- Only your name and state/territory will be published on the Commission’s website along with your submission.
More information is available on the Productivity Commission Inquiry website: www.pc.gov.au/inquiries/current/human-services