Child poverty
Alternative labels
Poor children
Conference paper
A childhood without poverty
This paper attempts to highlight the existence, extent and impact of child poverty and the right of children to wellbeing. It seeks to place child poverty within a broader context, other than an economic one.
Report
Families package monitoring report 2019
The Families Package was introduced in 2018 and provided targeted assistance to improve incomes for low- and middle-income families with children. This report monitors trends in receipt and expenditure for the different payments that comprise the package.
Report
Leave no one behind: what children and young people have said about living in poverty
This report aims to provide deep insight into how children and young people understand poverty. It captures responses made by children and young people to questions they were asked about what they think poverty means, what it’s like (for some of them) to live in poverty, and what they suggest could or should be done...
Briefing paper
Child poverty in Africa: an SDG emergency in the making
The profile of world poverty is changing dramatically. This briefing paper focuses on one of the most troubling but least explored aspects of that change - a marked increase in the share of global extreme poverty accounted for by children in Africa.
Report
Living in Australia: a snapshot of Australian society and how it is changing over time
This report summarises the findings from Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, which stands as a guide to inform our understanding of what’s shaping modern Australia.