Australian Community Sector Survey 2014

80% of community sector services in Australia have said they do not have enough resources to properly support the vulnerable people seeking their help, a report by the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) has found. Read the 2014 Australian Community Sector Survey. The ACOSS survey released on Monday 8 December, questioned almost 1,000 people working in the community sector, which employs 919,000 people and engages 2 million volunteers. It found 80% of workers said they were under-resourced and the perceived living standards of people on low incomes were declining.