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Funds to allow disability services boost

Disability services across the Eyre Peninsula and west coast will be upgraded with new funding from the South Australian Government.

Health Services at Ceduna and the Cummins library are among those to get money.

Disability Minister Jay Weatherill says the Government will also conduct a review into disability services in the area.

He says there will be workshops in places like Port Lincoln and Wudinna to give communities a say on the regional plan for disability services.

"Anybody that's had anything to do with disability services, whether as a consumer of those services or a carer for somebody that needs them or as a service provider, might be education, health, local government or transport, we want them to come up with innovative ways of working together to improve the lives of people with disabilities," he said.

Compass Services in Port Lincoln will get the most money from the State Government in new disability funding for the Eyre Peninsula and far west.

The organisation will get more than $64,000 for a bus and lifter and a further $20,000 for administrative support.

Rod Sandercock from Compass says the funding will allow the Moving on Program to continue.

"It will make sure that the clients that we have will continue to get the training that we've been contracted to provide, we'll be able to provide them with a decent transport service as opposed to some shuttle bus operations when vehicles have been available," he said.