In the Read
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Feb 18
The importance of integrated responses
The Australian Institute of Family Studies has released a paper comparing the policies in place for cross-agency responses to severe...
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14
Feb 18
Reflecting on the 10th anniversary of the National Apology
As we reflect on the 10th anniversary of the Apology to the Stolen Generations, it is useful to recall the...
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7
Feb 18
Another take on bullying, respectful relationships and youth participation
The 19th January 2018 issue of eNews included extensive links to resources about bullying and cyber-safety for children and young people. In the...
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29
Jan 18
Smoking guns: evidence-informed policy and practice
Given that many organisations are in the process of developing or reviewing their strategic and operational plans, this week’s ‘In the Read’...
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19
Jan 18
Bully fighters: resources to help everyone feel safe
This week’s In the Read focuses on bullying. A range of links is included to resources for children and young people;...
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15
Dec 17
Small Australian towns still don’t have access to service delivery professionals
The Regional Australia Institute has published the report Pillars of communities: Service delivery professionals in small Australian towns 1981 – 2011,...
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15
Dec 17
Engaging children and young people in developing children’s services
The Scottish government has published the report, A model of engagement with children, young people and planners in the development of...
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15
Dec 17
Future challenges facing young Australian from refugee and migrant backgrounds
VicHealth has released a report specifically focussing on the impacts on young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds, building on the 2015 Bright...
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8
Dec 17
Increasing income support to address child poverty in Australia
A briefing paper from Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) outlines findings from their Poverty in Australia 2016 report and calls on the Commonwealth government to...
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8
Dec 17
More research needed into child protection workers facing occupational violence
Child Family Community Australia (CFCA) released a short article on child protection workers facing occupational violence, concluding that the voice of...
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8
Dec 17
Study finds mainstream schools discourage inclusion of students with disability
A national study by researchers from the University of Melbourne and Curtin and Macquarie Universities, involving 745 Australian students with disability and 166 school...
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8
Dec 17
Report finds strong support for multiculturalism and immigration among Australians
The Scanlon Foundation has released the 2017 Mapping Social Cohesion report which demonstrates strong support for multiculturalism and immigration. It...
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1
Dec 17
What’s OK at home?
Domestic Violence Resource Centre Victoria has developed a resource site called What's OK at home? to help young people understand what family...
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1
Dec 17
Innovative children’s social care program evaluation
The UK Department for Education has published a report that provides an overview of the evaluation of the children’s social...
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1
Dec 17
Improving mental health and wellbeing support for children
The UK's Social Care Institute for Excellence has released a resource hub aimed at supporting the emotional and mental wellbeing of...
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1
Dec 17
Value for money and evaluation resource sheet
Child Family Community Australia (CFCA) has developed a resource sheet on program evaluation. The resource explores the topic of 'value...
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24
Nov 17
NT Royal Commission report released
The Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory has released its report, bringing together findings about how...
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24
Nov 17
Report finds educational neglect among Australian students in care
The Association of Child Welfare Agencies (ACWA) released a report providing a snapshot of the broad level of educational engagement of New...
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24
Nov 17
Resource sheet on children in care
Child Family Community Australia (CFCA) have developed a factsheet to inform service providers, practitioners and policy-makers about children living in...
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24
Nov 17
Findings on Australian experiences of personal safety
Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety (ANROWS) have developed an infographic containing some of the most significant findings on...
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24
Nov 17
Toolkit for disaster resilient organisations
The Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) has developed Resilient Community Organisations, a toolkit for community sector organisations to help measure and improve...
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24
Nov 17
Developments in Australian child protection reform
The latest paper from Child Family Community Australia examines developments within Australian child protection systems since 2010. The paper details findings from a data...
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24
Nov 17
Working with children whose parents have a drug or alcohol problem
The UK charity National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) has published an evaluation of the Family Environment:...
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24
Nov 17
Working effectively to address child sexual exploitation
Developed by Research in Practice, this 2017 paper brings together evidence that supports interventions and multi-agency and inter-professional approaches to...
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24
Nov 17
School exclusions and adopted children
Adoption UK has published a report on findings from a survey of adoptive parents in the United Kingdom asking about...
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17
Nov 17
Adoptions in Australia 2016-2017 headline figures
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has released an infographic with headline figures from the forthcoming Australian Adoptions 2016-17...
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17
Nov 17
FASD resource hub
The National FASD Technical Network has developed an online resource designed as a one-stop-shop to provide current and evidence-based information,...
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17
Nov 17
Quality is key for early childhood education
The Mitchell Institute at Victoria University have released a paper examining how Australia is faring on process quality, which focuses...
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10
Nov 17
Supporting young people leaving out of home care
An October 2016 Child Family Community Australia (CFCA) paper Supporting young people leaving out of home care considers how best...
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10
Nov 17
Inequality of opportunity for Australian children
The Australian children growing up with opportunity article in The Australian Economic Review discusses the inequality of opportunity experienced by...
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10
Nov 17
Suicide linked to exposure to domestic violence in childhood
The 2015-2017 report from the New South Wales Domestic Violence Death Review Team states that in 2013, nearly 20 per cent...
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3
Nov 17
More infants and Indigenous children admitted to out-of-home care
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has released the latest bulletin on the statistics of children admitted to out-of-home-care. The bulletin...
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3
Nov 17
New e-safety resource for young people
A new e-safety resource for young people has been developed by young people and the Office of the eSafety Commissioner. The Young...
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3
Nov 17
Online resource for new mums and their families
A new online resource called MumSpace has been developed by the Perinatal Depression e-Consortium to provide emotional and mental health support...
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3
Nov 17
The state of Australia’s welfare
The 13th biennial report into Australia's welfare by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has been released. Among other findings, the report shows...
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3
Nov 17
Report finds children experience violence across all stages of childhood
The UNICEF report A Familiar Face: Violence in the lives of children and adolescents examines four specific forms of violence experienced by children:...
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3
Nov 17
“The kids are OK” consensus among research
An article published in the Medical Journal of Australia finds that the consensus of peer-reviewed research is that children raised in same-sex...
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3
Nov 17
Significant barriers to full time employment ongoing, finds report
The Jobs Availability Snapshot 2017 released by Anglicare Australia shows that despite one of the strongest periods of growth in full-time employment,...
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3
Nov 17
Over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with mental and cognitive disabilities in the Australian criminal justice system
The Indigenous people, mental health, cognitive disability and the criminal justice system brief from the Indigenous Justice Clearinghouse examines current research into the...
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13
Oct 17
Progress report released on Supporting Families Changing Futures reforms
The 12 month progress report of the Queensland government's Supporting Families Changing Futures reforms has been released. The report offers...
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13
Oct 17
Indicators of poverty in Queensland
Queensland Council of Social Service (QCOSS) has published a snapshot into poverty in Queensland. Australia’s poverty rate remains above the...
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13
Oct 17
Findings into family conflicts with young people at risk of homelessness
The Institute of Child Protection Studies (ICPS) has released research into the risk factors for family conflict and breakdown that...
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13
Oct 17
Concerns for Indigenous education and employment outcomes in Queensland
The audit report, Education and employment outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2016-17 examines whether Queensland is 'closing...
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6
Oct 17
Educators’ understandings of children’s problematic sexual behaviour
A study from the University of South Australia into over a hundred Australian educators' experiences and understandings of pre-pubescent children's...
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29
Sep 17
The mental health of trans young people in Australia
Trans Pathways is the largest study ever conducted on the state of mental health and care pathways of trans young people aged...
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22
Sep 17
Cashless debit cards: cherry-picking evaluation findings?
The Commonwealth Government is intent on extending the geographic areas in which cashless debit cards are compulsory for some welfare...
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15
Sep 17
The state of early learning in Australia
The Early Learning: Everyone Benefits campaign has published the State of Early Learning in Australia 2017 report that considers the...
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8
Sep 17
Primary prevention is key for protecting children
As part of Child Protection Week, National Association for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (NAPCAN) and the Australian Institute...
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1
Sep 17
Improvements recommended for NDIS processes
The Senate’s Joint Standing Committee on the National Disability Insurance Scheme has released Provision of services under the NDIS for...
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25
Aug 17
Vulnerable teens more likely to self-harm and attempt suicide
The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) published by the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) has found high rates...
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21
Jul 17
Improving education and work prospects for children and young people
Youth Action, a NSW peak body for young people, recently released Career guidance: the missing link in school to work transitions....
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14
Jul 17
Tasmanian children and young people experiencing high vulnerability
The research project Too Hard? Highly vulnerable teens in Tasmania from Anglicare Tasmania documents the life histories of children and young people (aged...
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7
Jul 17
Building independence through planning for transition
A practitioner guide has been developed by the UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and the Social...
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3
Jul 17
Understanding and Applying the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle
The Understanding and Applying the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle: A resource for legislation, policy and program development resource...
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16
Jun 17
An annotated collection of resources on violence against women in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety (ANROWS) has launched the special collection, Violence against women in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities,...
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9
Jun 17
Treatment of children with problem or harmful sexual behaviours – an evidence review
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has released Rapid evidence assessment: Current best evidence in the therapeutic...
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2
Jun 17
Bringing Them Home 20 years on
Marking 20 years since the release of Bringing Them Home, the Healing Foundation has launched a report identifying that members...
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26
May 17
Latest edition of guide for homeless women in regional Queensland
The Lady Musgrave Trust, Queensland's oldest charity, has released the latest edition of A Handy Guide for Homeless Women in...
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12
May 17
The latest news on research and evidence in the Australian child and family service system
The latest issue of Family Matters published by the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) considers the issues involved in...
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12
May 17
Safety report findings released using animation
The Institute of Child Protection Studies at the Australian Catholic University has released an animation presenting the findings of the...
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12
May 17
Kids Helpline insights – report released
Kids Helpline Australia has published the report Kids Helpline Insights 2016 providing an overview of the type of support sought from young people...
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5
May 17
Improving service responses for refugee communities – report released
The recently released report Refugee Communities Intercultural Dialogue: Building Relationships, Building Communities aims to understand how services could better support refugee parents to...
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5
May 17
Release of reports into youth detention in Queensland
The Queensland Government has released the report of the Independent review of youth detention. It contains 83 recommendations following an...
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5
May 17
Extending leaving care age to 21 – modelling and findings
Anglicare Victoria recently commissioned the report Raising our children: Guiding young Victorians into adulthood which considered the socioeconomic benefits of raising...
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24
Apr 17
Practitioner resource for involving children in developing child-safe organisations
The Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) has published the practitioner resource Protection through participation: Involving children in child-safe organisations. The...
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24
Apr 17
Hospitalised assault injuries among women and girls factsheet published
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) has published a fact sheet on hospitalised assault injuries among women and...
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24
Apr 17
Youth mental health report released
Mission Australia and Black Dog Institute have released the Youth Mental Health Report Youth Survey 2012 - 2016 representing five years...
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13
Apr 17
Report on specialist domestic and family violence services for Aboriginal women
Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety (ANROWS) has published a research report, Women's specialist domestic and family violence services: Their...
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20
Jan 17
Queensland Family and Child Commission releases information kit for young people
The Queensland Family and Child Commission (QFCC) has released Finding out about child protection in Queensland – a new information...
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Aug 16
More about the Royal Commission into the South Australian child protection system
The South Australian Child Protection Systems Royal Commission Report, The life they deserve, was released in early August 2016. The...
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28
Apr 16
AIHW releases analysis of 2014 2015 child protection data
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) released Child Protection Australia 2014-15 last week. Across Australia, the report showed...
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31
Mar 16
The views of children and young people in out-of-home care: overview of indicator results from a pilot national survey 2015
In March 2016, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) released an overview of the results from the pilot...
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