In 2024-2025 QIDAN received $7 million in ongoing base funding and a temporary increase of $5 million that was just for the 2024-25 financial year. The temporary nature of this new funding means disability advocacy will be cut by over 40% on 1 July 2025 without further investment.
Our data shows that in the 2023 to 2024 financial year, QIDAN helped 1,579 people with 3,278 issues over 22,624 hours. Before the 2024-2025 uplift in funding we were only able to provide advocacy to 0.3% of people with disability in Queensland.
There is an urgent need for State funding to:
- Meet the growing need and demand for disability advocacy in Queensland
- Adequately address social issues and the impact of the disability reform (including the NDIS Review and the Disability Royal Commission) on an individual and systemic level
- Sustain our organisational operations
- Continue to meet the needs of Queenslanders with disability who were able to access independent disability advocacy due to increased funding for the 2024 to 2025 financial year
- Save the jobs of advocacy staff members whose roles will no longer be funded after 1 July 2025.
QIDAN has 2 key asks:
Ask 1: Do not cut the $5 million from the uplift funding received late 2024. Sustain this funding on a permanent and ongoing basis, raising the sector’s funding to $12 million per annum from 2025 onward
Ask 2: Provide an additional $8 million in funding per annum on an ongoing basis to allow the sector to begin meeting the unmet need in Queensland, raising the total funding to $20 million per annum