Peak industry groups fear SA will see more services like the Bedford Group and MS Society struggling to survive with a new report showing state government funding for organisations tackling issues like youth, domestic violence and homelessness is failing to keep pace with ballooning costs.

SA Government funding value had fallen 3.6 per cent over the past four years and South Australia’s indexation funding rate was the second lowest in the country this year, according to the South Australian Council of Social Service’s (SACOSS) Indexation for the SA Not-for-Profit Sector report.

“We are at a point where we can’t sustain the continuing erosion in the value of government funding,” SACOSS CEO Dr Catherine Earl said.

“We have seen two long-standing disability service providers go into ad

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