An evaluation of a program supporting women in custody who have children involved in the child protection system. Under the program, child protection caseworkers are ‘co-located’ in NSW correctional centres. The program was found to be a well-designed, beneficial and much needed initiative with some improvements noted.

This report describes the pregnancy and birth experiences and outcomes of mothers and babies in Australia over time. Data cover the antenatal period, labour and birth, and outcomes for babies at birth, as well as stillbirths, neonatal and maternal deaths.

This research looks at the barriers to mothers leaving partners who use violence. The persistence of conflict or abuse experienced by mothers over the antenatal to 9-month period, and over the 54-month to 8-year period was examined. For these two periods, the association between intimate partner violence (IPV) at the start of the period and...

This report provides information on stillbirths, neonatal and maternal deaths, including causes, maternal characteristics, timing and investigations. It also includes a separate article on breastfeeding in Australia, focusing on breastfeeding duration and breastfeeding by state or territory, remoteness area and among Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander (First Nations) mothers.

This report explores sharing child care within opposite-sex couple families using the 4 Families in Australia Surveys conducted in 2020 and 2021. A key aim of this work was to find out how diverse the arrangements of parents are when it comes to sharing child care between partnered parents.