Family Matters article Sep 2008
What kinds of jobs help carers combine care and employment?
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This paper provides information about what job characteristics promote or inhibit maintaining employment while caring.
Family Matters article Sep 2008
This paper provides information about what job characteristics promote or inhibit maintaining employment while caring.
Webinar Oct 2018
This webinar examined Emerging Minds’ work, focusing on how practitioners and services can develop consistent and engaging child-focused practice.
Resource sheet Jan 2017
This page contains selected web resources relating to out-of-home care
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 Jun 2006
Provides an evidence base to inform decision-making in the area of pre-employment screening checks for child-related employment
Policy and practice paper Sep 2007
Looks at what kind of training would assist in providing safe, nurturing care and continuity of cultural needs for children in care
Family Matters article Apr 1991
This article discusses findings from the Australian Institute of Family Studies' Becoming Adult Study which suggest that it is young women rather than young men who are making the major adjustments to the demands of employment and having children.
Research report Jul 2008
This paper presents Australian research on how different factors relate to the timing of women's return to work after having a child
Family Matters article Dec 1991
This article looks at the effects of the recession, and other factors, on employment in rural and remote towns, such as Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory where the Institute has begun interviewing for the Australian Living Standards Study, and notes that the community has lost ground during the eighties, despite all its efforts and plans.
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.