This report investigates current research on community attitudes towards people with disability.
This report describes the supports and services available to formal and informal out-of-home carers.
This report examines the many ways fathers in couple families with young children contribute to family life, and the impact fathers have on children's wellbeing.
The project profiles the population into segments based on personal money management attitudes and behaviours.
The paper consists of two reports on post-diagnosis support for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The first report focuses on younger children, and the second on older children.
This paper is an evaluation of the income management program introduced as part of the Northern Territory Emergency Response that was announced in June 2007.
The report details current measures that exist to assist problem gamblers, proposes new measures that could be implemented, and suggests areas for further research.
This report looks at how individuals in receipt of government income support change their behaviour when faced with new incentives or requirements placed upon them by the agency providing their income support.
This paper examines how the living standards of older Australians compare with those of the overall population, how much variation in living standards there is across the elderly population and how their living standards have changed over time.
This report, by the Institute of Child Protection Studies, Australian Catholic University, documents the experiences of 80 parents on income support
This paper examines the effectiveness of individual funding of disability support and aimed to inform policy to improve the provision of disability support.
This report outlines the results of an investigation into the support needs of clients receiving assistance through the Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP).
This paper examines the ageing of people with disability in the supported employment sector.
The study explores how Communities for Children, Invest to Grow and Local Answers projects and activities have engaged clients who may be considered hard-to-reach.
This report presents the results of the evaluation of the short-run impacts of the Communities for Children (CfC) initiative on child, family and community outcomes.
The National evaluation of the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy was undertaken over four years by the Social Policy Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, supported by the Australian Institute of Family Studies.
The paper examines service provision, service coordination, Indigenous families and children in Communities for Children (CfC) sites.
The paper describes father participation in selected Stronger Families and Communities Strategy 2004–2009 programs and services.
The paper contains the Department's submissions to the Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs Inquiry into Cost of Living Pressures on Older Australians.
This paper contains extracts of 'growing up stories' from people who live in the ACT metro/Queanbeyan region.
This report discusses what has been learned from the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy 2000–2004 about how to strengthen Indigenous families and communities.
The paper is a collection of three reports on the costs of children in Australian families. The research was commissioned by the Ministerial Taskforce on Child Support.
This paper documents the experiences of growing up in the Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula area using the stories and photos of local people.
This paper is based on the minutes taken during extensive consultations with urban, regional and remote Indigenous communities across Australia during 2003–04 for Footprints in Time -The Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children.
This literature review was commissioned as part of Footprints in Time—The Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children, to consolidate what is already known about Indigenous children, and to highlight what information is missing.
The Fixing Houses for Better Health Projects target the improvement of houses and household living conditions in remote and rural Indigenous communities, using a method known as housing for health.
This paper details legislative changes (and administrative changes with policy relevance) to the Australian social security system between 1983 and 2000.
Arranged by payment type, this volume provides details of some legislation other than that in the Social Security Act and its predecessors, in particular taxation changes relevant to social security, from 1908 to 1982.
This paper is two submissions to the Senate Select Committee on Superannuation. The first submission is on superannuation and living standards in retirement. The second is on planning for retirement.
This literature review identifies issues and difficulties for families of prisoners in Australia, especially those issues affecting prisoners' children and the children's care givers.
This paper is a submission to the Australian Senate on questions related to poverty and financial hardship.
Departmental submission on long-term strategies to address the ageing of the Australian population over the next 40 years.
This paper provides a snapshot of the number and demographic characteristics of income support recipients in 2001.
This paper provides an overview of the Australian system of income support within the broader context of social protection policies.
The paper provides valuable insight into the patterns of, and barriers to, social and economic activity for mature age jobless people; very long-term unemployed (more than five years); and workless families.
Reports on research undertaken using the financial stress questions in the Household Expenditure Survey to develop measures of disadvantage.
Provides a review and analysis of literature on the conceptualisation and measurement of community strength and its outcomes, identifying the commonalities and differences between various approaches to these issues.
Overviews the available information and theoretical discussion of low fertility, and provides a framework for discussion.
A compendium of recipient numbers, characteristics and expenditure for all FaCS income support payments and a number of other supplementary payments and other services for the period June 1989 to June 1999.