Another 10 Victorian councils will quit home care from 1 July 2023

Published on June 22, 2023 10 regional Victorian councils will stop providing home care services from 1 July 2023, claiming the Federal Government’s changes to home care services will make their operations unviable. The 10 councils to stop providing home care from 1 July 2023 are:

• Corangamite
• Ballarat
• Glenelg
• Bendigo
• Hindmarsh
• Loddon
• Macedon Ranges
• Buloke
• Pyrenees and
• Yarriambiack

From 1 July 2025, the CHSP, the Home Care Packages Program and Short-Term Restorative Care Programme will merge into the new Government run In-Home Aged Care program.

The new model will mean home care providers have to expand their range of services, which is posing a challenge to Victorian councils. This year’s closures follow 12 closures last year:

• Baw Baw
• Benalla
• Golden Plains
• Greater Shepparton
• Hepburn
• Latrobe
• Mansfield
• Mildura
• Moorabool
• Mornington Peninsula
• Southern Grampians, and
• Yarra Ranges – to exit the sector last year.