The Productivity Commission has outlined some of the key figures on government contributions to community services:
* The Commonwealth, state and territory government spent around $30.7 billion on community services in 2015/16, which was equivalent to 1.9 per cent of GDP and 10 per cent of total government outlays
* Real government expenditure on these services increased by 18.4 per cent between 2011/12 and 2015/16
* The largest proportional increase over the period was on child protection services, which rose 20.7 per cent
* The biggest dollar increase over the period was $2.7 billion for aged care services
* Total government spending on aged care services in 2015/16 was $16.8 billion, the majority of which went into residential care services
* $8.4 billion in government money was spent on disability services in 2015/16 - a real increase of 2.3 per cent from the previous year
* $4.8 billion was spent on child protection, out-of-home care, family support services and intensive family support services in 2015/16 - an increase of $341.2 million or 7.7 per cent from 2014/15
* Youth justice services across Australia including detention-based and community-based supervision as well as group conferencing cost $731.9 million in 2015/16, with the majority spent on detention-based supervision.
