Policy and practice paper May 2007
Building relationships between parents and carers in early childhood
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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 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 Apr 1992
This article presents an overview of the Changing Families in Changing Societies conference, held in Brussels in February 1992.
Policy and practice paper May 2002
Report to the WA Gordon Inquiry into Response by Government Agencies to Complaint of family Violence and Child Abuse in Aboriginal Communities
Policy and practice paper May 2006
Produced by the former National Child Protection Clearinghouse.
Family Matters article Dec 1991
This article looks at child care policy and practice in Sweden and the United Kingdom, two countries whose policies will most likely shape the provision of child care in Australia during the 1990s.
Media release May 2015
Many Australian parents find it difficult to access child care to meet the needs of their families, according to a facts sheet released today by the Australian Institute of Family Studies.
Family Matters article Apr 1997
In this discussion of the role of child care services in supporting families in their rearing of children in contemporary Australia, the author argues that it is necessary to balance this perspective by thinking of child care as an investment in children and for children.
Research report Aug 1993
This report provides information relating to the use of pre-schools and child care in Berwick.