Family and Community Services
The Department of Family and Community Services is the lead agency of the portfolio headed by the Minister for Family and Community Services and Minister for Women, Pru Goward; supported by the Minister for Ageing and Minister for Disability Services, Andrew Constance.
Other agencies in this portfolio include:
- Ageing, Disability and Home Care including the Office for Ageing
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- Disability Council of New South Wales
- Home and Community Care Program Advisory Committee
- Home Care Service of New South Wales
- NSW Businesslink Pty Ltd
- Community Services NSW
- Housing NSW
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- Aboriginal Housing Office, a statutory body
- City West Housing Pty Ltd
- Home Purchase Assistance Fund
- Office for Women’s Policy
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- Premier's Council for Women, an associated body
Read more about this topic: List Of New South Wales Government Agencies
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seated before a family and the family thinking
We never saw him before! He wants our Mary Lou!
After tea and homemade cookies they ask What do you do for a living”
—Gregory Corso (b. 1930)
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—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
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