Resource sheet Jan 2017
Web resources: Parents
This page contains selected web resources relating to parents.
Resource sheet Jan 2017
This page contains selected web resources relating to parents.
Resource sheet Jan 2017
This page contains selected web resources relating to fathers.
Policy and practice paper Sep 2007
In this paper, international and Australian research on children’s wellbeing and the views of young people in care are reviewed
Policy and practice paper Sep 1998
Overview of parent education and the effectiveness of parent education interventions in the prevention of child maltreatment.
Family Matters article Jun 2000
In this paper the New South Wales Commissioner for Children and Young People outlines some of the challenges facing communities, researchers and policy makers.
Family Matters article Sep 1997
In this article the author discusses the extent to which teenagers confide in their fathers, mothers and friends, and whether confiding in fathers is independently linked with the well being of teenagers.
Policy and practice paper Nov 2011
In this Issues Paper, therapeutic residential care is described and contrasted with other models of out-of-home care.
Research report Jun 1999
This report argues that the Looking After Children approach may have measurable benefits for child care services in Australia
Short article Sep 2017
Young people leaving care have specific needs and are at greater risk of contact with the justice system.
Family Matters article Sep 1999
This article by researchers from the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM) at the University of Canberra, follows up two previously published papers calculating new sets of estimates of the cost of raising children based on two different methodological approaches.