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The NSW Government is committed to ensuring our veterans are honoured with dignity and respect.
The NSW Office for Veterans Affairs (OVA) is a small team within the NSW Government that delivers programs specifically for the NSW veteran community and assists veterans and their families to connect to the available NSW Government services and supports.
While OVA provides services in NSW, the Australian Government Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) has responsibility for programs and services to veterans and their families across Australia.
OVA manages state programs commemorating and assisting veterans and their families in collaboration with all NSW Government agencies, the Australian Government and community stakeholders. OVA also leads heritage and commemoration activities, and targeted programs and grants that support veterans to access employment and education opportunities that are critical for long-term wellbeing.
OVA is responsible for delivering the NSW Government's Veterans Strategy 2025–2030 which outlines the focus NSW will take to support veterans and their families over the next six years (to December 2030), incorporating recommendations of the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide.
Key additions to the NSW Veterans Strategy 2025–2030 include:
- The development of a Corrective Services NSW Veterans Strategy to better support both inmates and staff who have served in the ADF.
- A flexible policy that allows the children of veterans and serving personnel to enrol in a public school without a fixed address.
- The development of new resources to assist the partners of veterans find employment.
- New resources to support veterans and their families who are affected by gambling harm.
- The NSW Office of Veterans Affairs is partnering with RSL NSW and Monash University on an important research project aimed at improving support services for women veterans in NSW.
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