Maternal employment rates are lowest in the first year of a child's life, as women leave or take a break from employment to care for an infant. Within this first year, however, there is considerable variation of maternal employment rates as some women make their way back to the workforce. This paper explores the timing...

Increasingly in the child protection sector, governments and leaders in the field are talking about the need for "evidence-based" or "evidence-informed" policy and practice. But what does this mean; and how relevant is "evidence-based" policy and practice to those professionals at the coal-face working with vulnerable children and families? The impetus for taking an evidence-informed...

It is estimated that in 2003 there were 474,600 primary carers providing care to a person because of disability or old age. In coming decades, as the Australian population ages, the number of carers is projected to increase. Despite the large number of carers in Australia and the likely increase in their numbers, relatively little...

This report sets out information about the PPP background and process and the results of the call for promising practice proposals. It then presents the analysis of promising practices, grouped by program target group.

A number of presentations from this conference are now available on the Growing Up in Australia website. The aim of the conference was to provide a forum for the discussion of research based on Longitudinal Study of Australian Children data and to highlight its research potential. Topics covered included: Family structure, quality of the co-parental...