Technological forms of exclusion are a reality for significant segments of the UK population and can reinforce and deepen existing disadvantages, according to this report. It offers policy recommendations and describes ways in which digital inclusion research can be improved. This study was commissioned to investigate the extent to which social exclusion and digital exclusion...

This study uses spatial microsimulation techniques to estimate at a small area level the impact of housing costs on spatial differences in financial disadvantage, and the actual or potential effect of housing assistance in reducing disadvantage.

In 1991, the Australian Commonwealth Parliament unanimously passed the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation Act 1991. This Act implemented a ten-year process that aimed to reconcile Indigenous and non-Indigenous people by the end of 2000. One of the main goals of the reconciliation process was to develop a continuing national commitment to address Indigenous socioeconomic disadvantage...

There is plenty of evidence for intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. However, mortality, as the most significant adverse outcome of children, is not well explored, especially in Australia. Lack of appropriate data is one of the main reasons. To tackle this issue, this paper uses a unique administrative dataset of the Department of Families, Community Services...

Closing the Gap is the Northern Territory’s Indigenous generational plan of action, in answer to the Little children are sacred report. It is aimed at closing the gap in outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Territorians. It contains a vision and objectives for the future socio-economic wellbeing of Indigenous Territorians and sets ambitious but achievable targets...