This report documents one of three themed studies undertaken as part of the national evaluation of the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy 2004-09. It explores how Communities for Children, Invest to Grow and Local Answers projects and activities have engaged clients who may be considered hard-to-reach. Using interviews with key informants in a sample of...

This compendium of papers seeks to define and address challenges within the broader context of changing attitudes toward the right of children and young people to play an active role in the decisions and actions that shape their lives.

This report outlines the non-legislative measures being undertaken by social networking sites and the financial services industry, working in collaboration with law enforcement agencies, to respond to the misuse of the internet for child sexual grooming.

The grooming of children for sexual purposes has been facilitated by online technologies, particularly social networking sites. This report describes the nature and extent of how new technologies are being exploited by offenders and the legislative and non-legislative responses to combat this growing problem.

This report presents the results of the evaluation of the short-run impacts of the Communities for Children (CfC) initiative on child, family and community outcomes. The study was based on a three-wave longitudinal study of 2,202 families living in 10 sites that had a CfC program and five sites comparable to the CfC sites (contrast...