This resource sheet explores what is known about service delivery coordination activities in regional, rural and remote areas of Australia. It examines the principles that underpin service delivery coordination efforts to improve the wellbeing of Indigenous Australians. Drawing on research, documented practice, and practitioner knowledge, the resource sheet outlines the importance of service delivery coordination...

This study provides information about the factors that influence the participation of families in paid employment and their communities more broadly. In-depth interviews were undertaken with 59 households (involving 71 individuals) across Broadmeadows in Victoria, Mansfield Park in South Australia, and Carole Park near Goodna in Queensland. These suburbs - along with Angle Park in...

Therapeutic residential care is becoming an increasingly relevant out-of-home care option for children and young people with multiple and complex needs.

This Resource Sheet is a review of research regarding children’s transition from home, to early childhood education and care services and then to school, with a specific focus upon both children and parents’ experiences of those transitions. The factors that influence a child’s ability to adapt to school are considered and case studies of promising...

The two papers focus attention on the ways interagency collaborations benefit children and families. Part A: What is it, what does it look like, when is it needed and what supports it? This paper looks at what collaboration is, the benefits and risks of involving families in collaborations, when interagency collaborations are likely to be...