Official Community Visitors 2025-26 annual report
Summary
The report's own summary: Message from the Ageing and Disability Commissioner, page 8
Generated summary: written by an AI model from the report text and checked against the cited pages.
The NSW Official Community Visitor scheme reported on 2025–2026, providing independent visits to residential care services and raising concerns affecting residents.
Visitors reported making 3,235 visits and raising and monitoring 6,169 issues affecting residents.
The report recorded a fall in the overall service allocation rate from 62% to 58%, citing growth in disability accommodation services and fewer available visitors.
For residential out-of-home care, it recorded 533 of 566 visitable services allocated to a visitor, an allocation rate of 94%.
In the body's own words
- Finding
Visitors raised and monitored 6,169 issues affecting residents.
Other figures 7
visits conducted
3,235
Printed as
3,235 visits conducted
issues raised and monitored
6,169
Printed as
6,169 issues raised and monitored, including:
matters of concern referred to relevant bodies
103
Printed as
103 matters of concern referred to relevant bodies, including:
services visited
2,411
Printed as
2,411 services visited
visitable services in NSW known to the OCV scheme
4,145
Printed as
there were 4,145 visitable services in NSW known to the OCV scheme, accommodating 12,505 residents
residents
12,505 people
Printed as
there were 4,145 visitable services in NSW known to the OCV scheme, accommodating 12,505 residents
one-off visits
54
Printed as
OCVs conducted 54 one-off visits to services that had never been visited
About the document
- Edition
- Current edition
- Reading status
- Read by OPAX
- Pages
- 44
- Figures not found in the report
- Employee expenses; Executive band; Head remuneration; Investigations commenced; Net result; Staff fte; Total expenses; Total income