Family Matters article Mar 2000
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Family Matters article Sep 1999
National Families Strategy: Update
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Policy and practice paper Sep 2008
Improving outcomes for children living in families with parental substance misuse: What do we know and what should we do
An overview of the research literature on the outcomes of children raised in families with multiple problems including parental substance misuse.
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Policy and practice paper Oct 2011
Interagency collaboration: Part B. Does collaboration benefit children and families? Exploring the evidence
Investigates the relationship between collaboration and improved outcomes for children and families.
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Policy and practice paper Dec 2005
National Audit of Australian Child Protection Research 1995-2004
This audit brings together information about Australian research projects in the fields of child protection and early intervention
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Policy and practice paper Dec 2007
Research use in the Australian child and family welfare sector
A project conducted jointly by the AIFS National Child Protection Clearinghouse (NCPC) and the Australian Centre for Child Protection, Uni SA
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Policy and practice paper Dec 2008
A National Approach for Child Protection
Discusses the child protection system in Australia, legislation and policy frameworks, child welfare ideology, and key challenges and possible future
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Family Matters article May 2010
Child support and Welfare to Work reforms
Family Matters article on economic consequences for single-parent families of child support and Welfare to Work reforms
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Family Matters article Sep 2010
Who cares?
This paper reports on a project conducted in the Australian Capital Territory where young people talked about how their lives had been affected by parental alcohol or other drug use.
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Family Matters article Mar 2011
Care-time arrangements after the 2006 reforms
This article examines four issues: the prevalence of different care-time arrangements in families that experienced parental separation after July 2006; parents' views about the flexibility and workability of their arrangements; characteristics of families with different care-time arrangements; and the strength of the relationship between child wellbeing on the one hand, and care-time arrangements and family dynamics on the other.