This chapter reports on the performance of governments in providing child protection, out-of-home care, family support services and intensive family support services.

This chapter reports on the performance of governments in providing youth justice services.

This chapter presents data on the performance of governments in providing social housing, including public housing, State owned and managed Indigenous housing, community housing and Indigenous community housing.

This chapter focuses on specialist homelessness services funded by government under the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) National Affordable Housing Agreement (NAHA) and National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness (NPAH). Other non-specialist homelessness services are not included in this Report.

This report concludes that much expenditure in regional areas does little to facilitate adjustment and long term development - and that governments could coordinate better and evaluate their activities in Australia's regions.