Program · Outcome 2: Promote stronger and more resilient families, children, individuals and communities by providing targeted supports
Program 2.1 – Families and Communities
To strengthen relationships, support families, improve wellbeing of children and young people, reduce the cost of family breakdown, and strengthen family and community functioning.
Department of Social Services, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 63 reported
$2.1bn
2026-27 Budget estimate
+$308m (+16.9%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
Traced to named suppliers and grant recipients
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Published lines
Each row is one line of the program’s expense table in the 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements – Program Expense Line Items, as published.
| Line | Kind | 2025-26 estimated actual |
2026-27 Budget estimate |
Change | Treatment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ordinary annual services (Appropriation Bill No. 1) | administered | $1.4bn | $1.4bn | −$20m −1.4% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 1207 |
| National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Act 2018 | administered | $438m | $768m | +$330m +75.3% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 1209 |
| Social Security (Administration) Act 1999 | administered | $8k | $8k | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 1208 |
| Social Services SOETM Special Account 2021 | administered | $2.1m | $0 | −$2.1m −100.0% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 1210 |