St Andrew’s Village (George’s Cottages) Byron Bay will receive $3,595,733 in taxpayer funds to redesign 40 ensuites, remedy drainage issues and external repairs, and deliver targeted care to homeless residents.
In a media release by Federal Labor MP Justine Elliot, she says the project is being funded through Round 2 of the Albanese Labor government’s Aged Care Capital Assistance Program (ACCAP), ‘which will directly support not-for-profit providers and small community-based operators’.
Unprecedented levels
She says, ‘We’re continuing to invest funding at unprecedented levels to support aged care providers outside of major cities, along with those that deliver specialist services’.
‘After the devastating news that Feros Care would close Byron Bay’s Feros Village, federal and state Labor governments worked together with the community in 2023 to find a new provider (St Andrew’s) to keep the site open for residents.
‘A year later, I’m proud to be delivering more than $3.5 million in federal funding to support St Andrew’s Village Byron Bay to continue delivering the very best care and support for our local seniors’, Mrs Elliot said.
‘The Albanese Labor government recently committed an additional $300 million to ACCAP over three years, as part of the historic aged care reforms announced in September 2024’.
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