Family services
Alternative labels
Family support services
Family support
Report
Healthy starts: the state of Australia’s child and family health service system
This report maps the experiences of families accessing the network of health services and supports in Australia available from the very beginning of pregnancy, through birth, and across the first 2,000 days of a child’s life. It identifies key system-wide barriers that prevent children and families from accessing high-quality, connected support.
Report
Doing things differently: funding ACCOs to keep families together
This report presents research into funding model options for Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations (ACCOs) delivering child and family support services. The report identifies core principles to guide the design of a funding model that is responsive to the sector and makes implementation recommendations.
Report
NSW Budget 2026–27: Overview
The New South Wales (NSW) 2026–27 Budget outlines economic priorities and major investments in health, education, housing, transport and regional recovery. It aims to provide relief now for immediate cost-of-living pressures and long-term reform to make NSW more secure.
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Left behind: systemic inquiry into responses to children and young people who are the subject of multiple reports to Child Protection
This inquiry explores the experiences of these children and young people who become caught between different parts of the system in Victoria when concerns raised with Child Protection about their safety or wellbeing do not meet the threshold for legal (or statutory) intervention. The report makes 17 findings and 13 recommendations.
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State of the ACCO sector: child protection and out-of-home care census final report
Aboriginal Community-Controlled Organisations (ACCOs) provide holistic, culturally responsive care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families in New South Wales and yet are under-resourced and excluded from decision making. This report calls for reforms to strengthen the role of ACCOs in the child protection system.