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With the FCVic Conference just a week away, Zyl reflects on a busy September. He covers preparations for the launch of our Digital Transformation Roadmap, a warm welcome to our new Projects Coordinator and a New Zealand delegation, our conversations with candidates ahead of the Victorian election, and progress on national award work.
In this month’s Integrated Services Project update, Social Security Rights Victoria shares practical tips for supporting clients to deal directly with Centrelink. It covers applications and obligations, the best ways to make contact, social worker support, and how to make a complaint.
This month’s CEO update looks at what sits behind our biggest advocacy wins, from the Small Sector, Big Impact showcase at Parliament House to our appearance before a parliamentary inquiry into small business insurance. Plus, we farewell Georgina Molloy as she moves on to a new role at Westjustice.
FCVic’s Small Sector, Big Impact showcase brought the financial counselling sector to Parliament House, giving MPs and advisers a first-hand look at the difference financial counsellors make in communities across Victoria.
Community organisations from across Victoria have united behind an Open Letter backing FCVic’s call for a $224 million investment in financial counselling in the 2027-28 State Budget — enough to double the workforce and reach 119,000 more Victorians before financial hardship becomes a crisis.
July was a month for taking stock and looking ahead. CEO Zyl reflects on our mid-year planning day, momentum across the governance review and Digital Transformation Roadmap, continued advocacy on workforce and the SCHADS Award, and the growing anticipation ahead of our August Parliamentary event — all part of a bigger theme of investing in the future of financial counselling.