This report examines mothers’ take-up of Parental Leave Pay (PLP) and fathers’ take-up of Dad and Partner Pay (DAPP), two government payments designed to support eligible working mothers and fathers to take time off work to care for newborn or newly adopted children.

This report explores sharing child care within opposite-sex couple families using the 4 Families in Australia Surveys conducted in 2020 and 2021. A key aim of this work was to find out how diverse the arrangements of parents are when it comes to sharing child care between partnered parents.

This report presents findings from the ‘Statistical profile of use of Paid Parental Leave and Dad and Partner Pay’ project that uses the Multi Agency Data Integration Project (MADIP), now referred to as the Person Level Integrated Data Asset (PLIDA).

This report finds that women are increasingly remaining employed when they take time off to have a baby, demonstrating the uptake of parental leave in recent years.

The revised In Home Care (IHC) program replaced the previous program and the Nanny Pilot Programme, with the program's objective being to support families' workforce participation and early childhood education and care requirements. This is the final evaluation report for the IHC program