This report presents findings from a mixed methods systematic review of the Communities That Care (CTC) prevention system, which is designed to reduce youth problem behaviours by empowering local stakeholders to implement evidence-based interventions. It contains robust, policy-relevant insights into the conditions under which CTC is most effective.

This study presents a comprehensive national investigation into the ageing experiences of people who spent their childhoods in forms of institutional or out-of-home care in Australia. Care Leavers and stakeholders consistently called for trauma-informed care to become the foundation of aged care practice. The report presents eight key policy and practice recommendations.

This exploratory study sought to identify and describe measures (e.g. legislation, policies, or strategies), in Australian or international contexts, that complement leaving, post-care and extended care policies, with a view to improving the life outcomes of care leavers. Despite these shortcomings, a range of very useful strategies for preventing discrimination and advancing the wellbeing and...

This study sought to generate new knowledge about children aged 10 to 13 years who are charged with offending, including their characteristics and support needs, the application of doli incapax provisions with this group, and their offending, criminal justice outcomes and trajectories. The study also identified significant opportunities to improve early therapeutic and social support...

This paper outlines a retrospective follow-up study of all Victorian children aged 10 to 13 years with police contact for alleged offending in 2017.