The AIHW, together with other agencies in the Australian Government and the states and territories, is working on a number of projects to increase and improve information about Australia’s welfare. Here are just a few of the things we’re doing to improve what we will know in the future.
Current AIHW projects
- We are working to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the experience of children and young people in the child protection system, including those in the system for multiple years.
- Under strict conditions protecting privacy, we are investigating the pathways between child maltreatment, homelessness and juvenile offending, helping to design early intervention policies.
- The AIHW and ABS have worked together to increase what we know about early childhood education across the country.
- In July 2011 we implemented the Specialist Homelessness Services collection, which will improve information about pathways into and out of homelessness, as well as the assistance provided by homelessness services. Work is also underway to improve statistics in the social housing sector.
- We will be reporting detailed statistics collected by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency which includes nurses and psychologists working in community services.
- We are enhancing the information available on people receiving specialist disability services, and developing a method of consistently identifying people with disability who receive other community services. This will help us better understand the full range of services used by people with disability and their carers.