This report presents a summary of an examination of the Community Protection and Public Child Sex Offender Register (Daniel’s Law) Bill 2025. The objectives of the Bill are to increase community awareness to help protect children via a public register and to guard against misuse of offender information. The committee recommends that the Bill be...

Early Childhood Hubs (ECHs) are a leading integrated model that can fill a major gap in the current early years landscape. ECHs are configured to overcome many barriers to accessing and participating in early education and care. This brief provides an overview of the key findings related to the efficacy of ECHs.

Welfare refers to the wellbeing of individuals, families and the community. This report presents a snapshot of key findings on welfare and wellbeing data, offering a point-in-time overview of how Australia is faring. Areas presented include life satisfaction and connections, education, work, income, housing, disability, aged care, First Nations people, justice and safety, and improving...

The purpose of the review is to help the Australian Department of Social Services enrich its capability to achieve its goals over the next four years. It provides a detailed assessment of the agency capability – and opportunities to improve this capability – in the areas of leadership and culture, collaboration, delivery, workforce and enabling...

A recording of a webinar to help you learn about how to make workplace adjustments easy, effective and equitable. Workplace adjustments are any administrative, environmental or procedural changes that enable people with disability to have equitable employment opportunity and work effectively and comfortably.