Practice guide Jun 2010
Community development approaches to safety and wellbeing of Indigenous children
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Summarises current knowledge on best practice in child protection with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.
Practice guide Jun 2010
Summarises current knowledge on best practice in child protection with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.
Policy and practice paper Dec 2009
Produced by the National Child Protection Clearinghouse
Practice guide Nov 2009
This paper outlines different evaluation types, identifies the key elements to developing a rigorous evaluation and highlights possible limitations.
Submission Oct 2009
Submission to House of Representatives Standing Committee on Family, Community, Housing and Youth.
Policy and practice paper Sep 2009
Explores the issues involved in applying a public health approach together with a human rights perspective to healing and protecting infants.
Family Matters article Jun 2009
Family Matters article on insights into the concept of social exclusion
Family Matters article Mar 2009
Family Matters article exploring relationships between children and their grandparents
Family Matters article Mar 2009
This paper updates the Office of Evaluation and Audit 1997 report that evaluated the The Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme developed as a response to the perceived social threat of "sit-down money" to Indigenous communities in the 1970s.
Family Matters article Mar 2009
This article suggests it is vital to tap potential of the powerful evidence that now exists on the serious immediate and long-term risks posed to children from parental substance dependence, mental health problems and domestic violence, and the high prevalence of such problems among families involved with statutory child protection systems.
Family Matters article Mar 2009
This article presents an analysis of poverty among households where at least one member is employed part- or full-time, based on the most recent ABS Survey of Income and Housing (2005-06), and using the OECD half-median household disposable income poverty line.