Submission Jan 2020
Submission to Joint Select Committee on Australia's Family Law System
Findings from Terms of Reference set out by Joint Select Committee on Australia’s Family Law System.
Submission Jan 2020
Findings from Terms of Reference set out by Joint Select Committee on Australia’s Family Law System.
Short article Nov 2016
New reports show a lack of care for the cultural needs of many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in child protection and OOHC.
Webinar Jul 2021
This webinar explored how a capabilities approach can help young people navigate housing stress and other challenges.
Short article Oct 2020
This article explores how early interventions operate to prevent youth homelessness and outlines the emerging evidence for what works.
Short article Oct 2020
This short article explores how a population approach to early intervention and prevention can support parents and improve child safety and wellbeing.
Short article Mar 2016
Jamie Lee describes how the presence of family and domestic violence makes a difference to service response at Relationships Australia (SA).
Short article Jul 2016
How many children are in the child protection system? How can we improve the system's response to these children and their families?
Family Matters article Mar 2016
"Why are families important?" This article reflects on some of AIFS recent learnings about families to inform investment in future policy directions.
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.
Research report Aug 2019
This early monitoring report is the first formal evaluation of the Commonwealth’s Child Care Package.