Social Policy Research Centre

This project informs the development of a minimum data set (MDS) of workforce indicators which will facilitate the collection of regular, consistent and core information that will:

This project used the Australian Workplace Relations Study to provide new information about wage setting and employment relations in the not-for-profit sector.

Two viability monitoring reports developed by the Qld Dept of Housing in 2003 and 2004 identified a number of  issues affecting the private residential sector which required further investigation.

This project investigates factors at the individual and labour market levels that affect exit from or retention in employment following a job placement by an employment services provider.

Despite a long history of migration to Australia, people from Chinese backgrounds remain underrepresented in disability service use.

The project involves production of a Country Analysis using data from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS), Demographic Health Survey and/or other relevant household surveys, as well as fresh data on national policies and programmes compiled for UNICEF’s Global Study of Child Poverty and

The project investigated the requirement for two workers (rather than one) in a community-care setting.

This project uses academic expertise and applied policy knowledge to generate new information on how Australians manage the pressing challenge of balancing work and family.

This study is the first international collaboration about the transition to adulthood of young people with disabilities from state care in China. It tests whether socioeconomic outcomes are different for young people who had foster care compared to institutional care.

This research examined the costs, benefits and impacts for participants, carers, communities and government of the transition to consumer directed care (CDC) markets for respite outputs and outcomes.

The care of disabled and elderly people depends predominantly on informal carers in the community. However, little is known about what influences the demand and supply of caregiving.

The evaluation of the outcomes, process and cost effectiveness of the Time Out House Initiative (TOHI) in Queensland is to inform future service development.

The aim of the project is to define therapeutic foster care (TFC) in the overall context of out-of-home care placements and to:

The project explored the impact of children on the total paid and unpaid workload of families, and gender differences in the allocation of that time.

The NSW Commission for Children and Young People is required to provide statistics on the health, welfare and wellbeing of NSW children and young people according to Section 11 of the Commission for Children and Young People Act 1998.The objective of this research is therefore to produce chapters

This study builds on previous AHURI research on the community housing sector to examine the role of CHOs in addressing homelessness in the context of the current expansion of the sector. It addresses two strategic research issues: 1.

This report examines policies on Commonwealth Rent Assistance (CRA) for older people living in retirement villages, manufactured home parks and caravan parks.

An essay using Census of Population and Housing 2006, commissioned and funded by the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in collaboration with the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Funding Agency Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA)