The Community Services Futures Forum in March 2011, agreed to develop a green paper around how the sector could work better together in the face of significant and unprecedented change in the state and national community service environment. This would involve: shifting the discussion from organisational size to organisational behaviour. What kind of organisational behaviour...

Highly effective schools have high levels of parent and community engagement. "Community" here includes parents, business and philanthropic organisations, and various services and not-for-profit groups. How "engagement" is defined and what it looks like in practice will vary from school to school. But, as the growing body of research makes quite clear, support from those...

In March 2012, leaders with an interest in the early years representing health, education, research and policy, gathered to build a shared understanding of place or location as a platform for supporting children and families. With the understanding that the agenda for place-based approaches is well advanced in Australia, the aim was to clarify the...

This report presents the results of a survey about people living in New Zealand and their national identity. A nationally representative sample of n=1,252 New Zealanders, 18 years of age or more, was interviewed, by telephone, between 9 and 27 August 2011. The sample was weighted to ensure that total sample proportions by age and...

User fees are widely regarded as one of the main obstacles to increasing poor people’s access to health care in developing countries and, in doing so, promoting more inclusive forms of development. During the 1980s and early 1990s, a number of developing country governments introduced formal fees for health services in an attempt to generate...