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Annual Report 2024–25

Our annual report is published after the end of every financial year and tabled in the Victorian Parliament. It highlights our services and activities for the year.

Our Annual Report 2024–25 was tabled in the Victorian Parliament on 12 November 2025.

It highlights our services and activities for the year and contains information about:

key activities and initiatives
financial management and annual financial statements
compliance reporting requirements.

Our annual reports are prepared in accordance with the Standing Directions of the Minister for Finance and Financial Reporting Directions, as well as sections of the Financial Management Act 1994 (Vic).

Our clients

We delivered over 490,000 services to people across Victoria in 2024–25.

Our clients include a diverse range of people across Victoria. Many face complex legal problems and experience cultural barriers, discrimination, disability, mental health issues or social and geographic isolation. For many clients, these issues or experiences intersect and can compound.

Who our clients are: 38 per cent women, 62 per cent men, under one per cent gender self-described, under one per cent gender diverse, 14 per cent from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (Based on the Australian Bureau of Statistics definition of people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Includes people who speak a language other than English at home and people who were born in a non-English speaking country.), 13 per cent under 19 years of age, 36 per cent disclosed having a disability or mental health issue, 27 per cent living in regional Victoria, nine per cent identify as First Nations people, 25 per cent with no income (Examples include children and young people, people experiencing homelessness, people in custody and immigration detention, and psychiatric patients.), 55 per cent receiving some form of government benefit, nine per cent at risk of homelessness, 13 per cent in custody, detention or psychiatric care, six per cent required the assistance of an interpreter.

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Annual Report 2024–25

Annual Report 2024–25 (accessible version)

Previous reports

Download previous annual reports.

Updated 11 November 2025

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