In late 2009, Australian Centre for Child Protection researchers surveyed staff from 107 specialist homelessness services operating across Australia. Of these services:• Almost half had fewer than five staff members• The main client group of half of the services were women and women with children escaping domestic violence• Many accommodated more children than adults

Over 100 presentations and abstracts are now available from the 11th Australian Institute of Family Studies conference proceedings, held from 7 - 9 July 2010 at the Melbourne Convention Centre.

This report outlines a process for deriving a concept of social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB), and indicators to measure that concept, so that both concept and indicators are consistent with political visions of society, and visions of children’s and young people’s place in it.

This report was commissioned by the Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department in early 2009 to examine the impact of family violence, which had occurred before, during and or after parental relationship breakdown, on post-separation decision making and arrangements as viewed by children and parents. More specifically the brief was to discover parents’ and children’s perspectives on: 1...

The aim of this scoping study is to review the existing literature on the connections between housing and childhood development and wellbeing and to investigate the value and feasibility of conducting empirical research in the Australian context. Specifically, the research questions addressed are: