Since September 2003 the Parenting Payment recipients whose youngest child is 13 to 15 years old have been reuired to undertake one or more activities (such as job search, education, training or community work) to develop and enhance their work skills and prepare them for a return to work. Michael Alexander, Jennifer Baxter, Jody Hughes...

The Children’s Cases Project (CCP) focuses on the interests of the child and the parents' or caretakers' proposals for the future of the child, rather than the past history of the parties' relationships. The final report of the exploratory study looks at, amongst other things, the impacts on parenting capacity and child well-being.

This report is based on information from three national child protection data collections – child protection notifications, investigations and substantiations; children on care and protection orders; and children in out-of-home care – made each year by the AIHW from the community services departments in each state and territory. Most of the data in this report...

In this report Rosanna Scutella and Paul Smyth describe the condition of Australian children today in six key dimensions of life. Each dimension reflects basic capabilities and opportunities that every child should enjoy, including good physical and mental health, literacy and numeracy, freedom from violence and abuse, and access to an adequate level of economic...

Referring to a case study from Auckland, New Zealand, that focuses on the welfare of children, this paper asks the question: does geography matter in the influence of neighbourhood on children’s health?