This report focuses on improving the evaluation of community services for their effectiveness and value. The report outlines how governments can use data collection to build more disciplined and consistent program evaluation, and how to foster a culture that enables this.

Community services, including disability, family violence and homelessness organisations, are at breaking point and facing a staffing crisis due to years of inadequate government funding, this research shows.

Prior to the 2023 New South Wales state election, No to Violence toured seven areas of the state with higher-than-average rates of police-recorded domestic violence incidents. This report urges the new NSW Government to urgently and sustainably fund services that work with men to end family violence.

The evidence presented in the report demonstrates that with the right strategies and resourcing, the public library system is ideally placed to develop and embed enhanced early literacy initiatives in New South Wales to solve the State’s literacy crisis.

The Joint Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs has published this report on its inquiry into community safety, support services and job opportunities in the Northern Territory. The report makes several recommendations to the Commonwealth and Northern Territory governments in the wake of the sunsetting of the Stronger Futures Act in 2022.