Australia's welfare 1997: services and assistance

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• Preliminary material (77K PDF)
  • Title page and verso
  • Letter of transmittal
  • Editors and authors
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Symbols
• Chapters
  1. Introduction (27K PDF)
  2. Welfare services expenditure (201K PDF)
     • Introduction
     • Total expenditure
     • Expenditure by governments
     • Recurrent government welfare services expenditure
     • The contribution of community service organisations
     • Tax expenditures in the community services sector
     • The contribution of volunteers
     • International comparisons of government expenditure on welfare services
     • Summary
  3. Families and welfare services (151K PDF)
     • Introduction
     • Sociodemographic change and families
     • Projections 1996-2006
     • Implications for welfare services
  4. Children's and family services (227K PDF)
     • Introduction
     • Children's services
     • Family support services
     • Summary
  5. Housing assistance (165K PDF)
     • Introduction
     • Services and assistance
     • The recipients
     • The need for and effect of housing assistance
     • Summary
  6. Children in need of protection (134K PDF)
     • Introduction
     • Child abuse and neglect
     • Children on care and protection orders
     • Children in out of home care
     • Adoptions
     • Data development
     • Summary
  7. Services for homeless people (95K PDF)
     • Introduction
     • Assessing need for assistance
     • Services and assistance
     • The recipients of assistance
     • Crisis assistance outcomes
     • Summary
  8. Aged care (243K PDF)
     • Introduction
     • The need for care
     • Service provision
     • Outcomes
     • Summary
  9. Disability services (298K PDF)
     • Introduction
     • Prevalence of disability and need for services
     • Disability services and assistance
     • Outcomes
     • Summary
• End matter
  • Appendix tables (267K PDF)
  • Technical appendix (42K PDF)
  • Abbreviations (13K PDF)
  • Glossary (14K PDF)
  • Index (48K PDF)