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.
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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.
Family Matters article Oct 2009
This paper begins with information on the rates of unemployment and long-term unemployment since 1980 to the present day, and points out that several demographic changes mean this economic downturn will be different for families than in previous years.
Family Matters article Oct 2009
Family Matters article on economic instability and children's development
Family Matters article Oct 2009
Family Matters article on financial disadvantage and children's school readiness
Family Matters article Oct 2009
This paper uses data from the Australian General Social Survey, 2006, and the Australian Time Use Survey, 2006 and finds that retired men spend less time with family and friends outside of the household than men who are not retired, while for retired women, the opposite pattern emerges, as they report spending more time with family and friends who live outside of the household compared to women who are not retired.
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
Reports findings about the legal system's response to parents' experiences of family violence and concerns about child safety.