Victoria’s austere budget leaves community service organisations fearing for their clients

Daniel Lennon leads a youth counselling service that risks closing its doors after its funding dried up in Victoria's state budget Photograph: Supplied

Every week Daniel Lennon meets a young domestic abuse survivor to help her try to process the grief of losing her stepfather.

But the service the youth counsellor leads could be forced to close its door, after the Victorian government’s latest budget revealed its funding had dried up.