This research investigates and documents the views of children and young people in alternative care (foster care and residential care) and in detention centres in Queensland. The research features a repeated cross-sectional longitudinal design enabling the Commission to identify changes in these views over time. The first phase was conducted in 2006, the second in...

Births in Australia are at an historical high – with around 285 000 babies born in 2007. This corresponds to an estimated total fertility rate of 1.93 babies per woman, the highest since the early 1980s. This is not a one-off event as fertility rates have been generally rising for the last 6 years. Overall...

Feeling Safe Being Strong (FSBS) is a (family) violence primary prevention and early intervention program that targets primary school students in years 3 and 4.

The Australian Government is committed to the development of a national Early Years Learning Framework, and is planning a process of consultation with the early childhood sector about the nature and content of the Framework. This discussion paper is designed to provide policy makers and practitioners with an orientation to the issues involved.

Conducted regularly since 1986 the census is the most comprehensive data available on Australian government approved and funded child care. It is used extensively for monitoring growth, operation of services and assisting in policy formulation and planning. The most recent Census was conducted in May 2006. The Census examines information about child care users, staff...