Social Policy Research Centre

There was a substantial increase between 1997 and 2001/02 in the level of breaches for the infringement of social security rules and requirements.

Following the large-scale entry of women into the paid workforce, the issue of work-family balance has become increasingly important to social policy. However, it is also apparent that the issue remains largely a problem for women.

This research aims to address a significant gap in current research by examining how early career professional engineers experience both the workplace and the engineering sector more generally.

The thesis investigated the relationship between national birth rates and the time cost of children, examining data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics Time Use Survey 1997.

The central aim of this project is to improve understanding of how our society can financially support, care for and reproduce itself without creating or worsening social disadvantage.

The Michael Project (MP) works with homeless men across major life domains: health and wellbeing, social participation and economic participation. It offers an integrated service response across different Mission Australia sites in metropolitan Sydney.

The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) was established in 1983 under a grant from the Luxembourg government.

This project critically reviews the existing literature on estimating the cost of children and aims to develop a new modelling framework that will enable the simulation and testing of child cost estimates relevant to family payment and income support programs.

This Survey is to investigate the level of satisfaction with NSW youth mental health services. This project is a part of the Review of the Provision of Youth Mental Health Services in NSW, currently being undertaken by the SPRC. Funding Agency NSW Ministry of Health

The Tenancy Guarantee Pilot Project was designed to assist people with the financial means to take on private sector renting but unable to secure a tenancy because of a lack of tenancy history and personal references, or some form of discrimination by real estate agents and/or landlords.

In Australia there are significant numbers of children who cannot live with their birth parents, and who live with foster carers for short or relatively long periods of time. This small project will conduct a review of family preservation policies in Australia.

LIMAC commissioned the UNSW consortium to provide a report in the form of a review of academic and public policy literature concerning communications and community wellbeing, with a specific focus on people with low incomes and other disadvantaged social groups.

Australian families report very high levels of time stress. This project explores links between parental time pressure, health and wellbeing, innovatively capturing individual, family and social perspectives.

This project investigated the implications of the current context of sustainability, governance and funding of Australian NGOs in the A&OD sector and explored future options to effectively operate under a range of service delivery models.

This study aimed to address the lack of policy research on the circumstances and support of older people with disability (OPWD) in China.

This project examines reforms to the Australian tax-benefit system since the early 1970s, equity in disposable incomes between different groups of working age people and families, and how this compares with other rich English-speaking countries.

The NSW Department of Family and Community Services, Ageing, Disability and Home Care commissioned SPRC to design an evaluation framework and collect initial data for the accommodation support and funding models under Stronger Together 2 (ST2), now known as Ready Together.

The aim of the research is to identify/develop and implement a measure to ascertain the extent to which the Supported Accommodation Assistance Program’s (SAAP) facilitates change in client self-reliance.