The strategy sets out commitments to change the system of public services in Scotland – to be preventative, to better join up and to be efficient – in order to better deliver for people. It identifies the underlying systemic barriers and root causes which prevent moving faster and further, and sets out practical actions to...

This statement outlines specific recommendations for Health and Mental Health Ministers as the next immediate steps to commit to at their meeting in June 2025 to improve child and youth mental health in Australia. The recommendations cover mental health in education, digital mental health supports, workforce capacity and waiting times.

This report looks at trends in spending on homelessness prevention programs in the United Kingdom, assesses the barriers to these and makes recommendations for how these can be overcome. The dedicated efforts of the homelessness sector are commendable, but evidence suggests they alone cannot provide the long-term, systemic solutions required.

This article presents the results of a survey into the prevalence in Australia of intimate partner violence (IPV), each IPV type and multitype IPV, overall and by gender, age group and sexual orientation. It finds improved prevention is needed in the areas of health care, welfare and justice and that a comprehensive national prevention policy...

This report looks at how the last Labour government in the United Kingdom of the late 1990s and 2000s addressed the issue of school absence. It makes 12 recommendations on how the government should tackle school absence now, and draws out wider lessons for the approach to mission-led government. It finds the single biggest cause...