Practice guide Dec 2011
Demonstrating community-wide outcomes: Exploring the issues for child and family services
Investigates issues relating to evaluating whole-of-community initiatives.
Practice guide Dec 2011
Investigates issues relating to evaluating whole-of-community initiatives.
Policy and practice paper May 2011
Information on social inclusion and social exclusion and how this impacts upon children and families in Australia.
Commissioned report Dec 2013
Examines mothers' transitions into and out of work and between jobs of different types as children grow or as new children are born.
Family Matters article Oct 2009
Family Matters article on financial disadvantage and children's school readiness
Family Matters article Oct 2009
This article provides an historical account of factors that have led to the development of the Victorian Family Violence Protection Act 2008.
Family Matters article Oct 2009
Articles in this issue address the interaction of policies, services and institutions, and the vulnerable with the employment prospects of those in out-of-home care; the economic consequences for single-parent families of the changes to the child support and the Welfare-to-Work reforms; and how the Victorian legal system has responded to family violence.
Commissioned report Dec 2010
Explores how adolescent children view their experience of parental separation in the context of the 2006 family law reforms.
Commissioned report Mar 2013
Drawing on data from LSAC this report examines the impact of joblessness and part-time work on the wellbeing of parents and their children.
Commissioned report Mar 2013
Reports findings about the legal system's response to parents' experiences of family violence and concerns about child safety.