This national evaluation covers three of the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy (SFCS) initiatives: Communities for Children (CfC), Invest to Grow and Local Answers. It examines service provision, service coordination, Indigenous families and children in CfC sites, factors that facilitate or hinder service provision and outcomes, and sustainability.

The paper, 'Engaging fathers in child and family services: participation, perceptions and good practice' describes father participation in selected Stronger Families and Communities Strategy (SFCS) 2004–2009 programs and services. The SFCS is an initiative of FaHCSIA. As part of the themed study component of the national evaluation of the SFCS, the report explores fathers' engagement...

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.

Parenting is known to vary as a function of culture and education. It may also depend on the nature of the caregiver's relationship to the child (whether the caregiver is a parent or unrelated day care provider, for example), as well as the context in which the relationship takes place. It may therefore be quite...

The Child Care in Cultural Context study was designed to measure the childrearing beliefs, goals and practices of parents and carers of children from Anglo, Vietnamese, and Somali backgrounds. In this paper Kelly Hand and Sarah Wise describe carers’ attitudes towards working with parents, how much they engage parents about their childrearing practices at home...