Policy and practice paper May 2007
Building relationships between parents and carers in early childhood
An outline of strategies that professionals may employ to support and strengthen parent/carer partnerships.
Policy and practice paper May 2007
An outline of strategies that professionals may employ to support and strengthen parent/carer partnerships.
Family Matters article Mar 1996
This article examines the relationship between frequency of parents' visits to their GP and residential location, payment arrangements (bulk billing or not), and other factors which may affect both service use and parents who visited their doctor more frequently or less frequently than their health status would appear to predict, and the factors linked with such high or low use.
Family Matters article Aug 1992
This article draws on house price data for the period 1974 to 1990 in each local government area in the Melbourne Statistical District, and asks whether house price increases simply reflect inflation, or if families who are home owners and buyers gain in wealth through their home ownership.
Family Matters article Apr 2008
In this article, the authors describe the labour force status of carers who receive an Australian Government payment directed to carers, with a particular focus on the degree to which non-employed carers want to be in paid employment.
Family Matters article Mar 1995
This article looks at results from the first ever national survey of time use, conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 1992, a new information resource which provides information about the unpaid work that takes place at home.
Family Matters article Sep 1997
This article looks at changes to the Child Support Scheme. Aspects of the child support debate have centred on what was considered to be the unfair demands for financial support from non resident parents.
Family Matters article Apr 1992
This article presents an overview of the Changing Families in Changing Societies conference, held in Brussels in February 1992.
Research report May 1985
Draws attention to inadequacy of support, inequitable trends in the current tax- transfer system, inappropriate arrangements under current structures
Policy and practice paper Sep 2007
Common characteristics of the organisations’ programs and services that we profiled are outlined. Covers organisational practice and service delivery.
Policy and practice paper May 2006
Produced by the former National Child Protection Clearinghouse.