The 'Families at Risk' study has produced local evidence drawing attention to the strengths and challenges for parents living in situations of chronic and multiple disadvantage with children aged 0 - 7 years. Life for the majority of these parents and youg children is under-resourced, stressful and isolated and interventions are required that open up...

This research proposes to expand current financial disadvantage measures by including a regional housing cost variable. The aim of this project is examine the impact of housing costs and housing assistance on levels of financial disadvantage. This research will provide detailed LGA-level simulated results that will enable a fuller evaluation of the current policy options...

This paper by Ann Harding, Justine McNamara, Robert Tanton, Anne Daly and Mandy Yap, describes results from an innovative use of the 2001 Australian census microdata, focussed on well-being and disadvantage from the child's perspective, to construct a composite index of child social exclusion risk. Abstract

Gary Banks, chair of the Productivity Commission, spoke on this topic at a CEDA gathering in Adelaide and at a HEROC workshop in Sydney. Released 21 September 2005

This is the second Report in a series that has been prepared at the request of the Council of Australian Governments. It aims to provide indicators of Indigenous disadvantage ‘that are of relevance to all governments and Indigenous stakeholders, and that can demonstrate the impact of programme and policy interventions'.