Australia's welfare 2007

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• Preliminary material (490KB PDF; 154KB RTF)
  • Half title and verso pages
  • Title and verso pages
  • Contributors
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Symbols
• Sections
  1. Introduction (92KB PDF; 106KB RTF)
     • A review of progress in welfare
     • Housing and homelessness
     • Children and young people
     • Ageing and disability
     • The wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
     • Some data issues
     • References
  2. Children, youth and families (313KB PDF; 1.17MB RTF)
     1. Introduction
     2. Australia's children and young people
     3. Australian families
     4. Early childhood and school entry
     5. Education and employment
     6. Children and young people at risk
     7. Data developments
     8. Summary
     9. References
  3. Ageing and aged care (329KB PDF; 1.9MB RTF)
     1. Introduction
     2. Australia's older population
     3. Work and retirement
     4. Social participation
     5. Retirement income
     6. Support for older people - informal care
     7. Support for older people - aged care services
     8. Accessing services
     9. Client profiles and patterns of service use
     10. Outcomes
     11. Aged care expenditure
     12. Summary
     13. References
  4. Disability and disability services (274KB PDF; 1.4MB RTF)
     1. Introduction
     2. Disability in the Australian population
     3. Care, services and assistance
     4. Outcomes
     5. Summary
     6. References
  5. Housing for health and welfare (243KB PDF; 835KB RTF)
     1. Introduction
     2. Economic and social issues impacting on housing assistance
     3. Summary of housing assistance programs
     4. Current housing policy issues
     5. Pressure for change in delivery of housing assistance
     6. Information issues facing housing assistance
     7. Summary
     8. References
  6. The dynamics of homelessness (232KB PDF; 991KB RTF)
     1. Introduction
     2. The major program response to homelessness
     3. Who is turned away from SAAP accommodation?
     4. Who counts as homeless?
     5. Homelessness before and after SAAP accommodation
     6. People in SAAP with mental health and problematic substance use issues
     7. Iterative homelessness and SAAP
     8. SAAP data from 1996 - 97 to 2005 - 06
     9. Policy initiatives
     10. Data development
     11. Summary
     12. References
  7. Welfare services resources (226KB PDF; 2.3MB RTF)
     1. Introduction
     2. Total financial and human resources for welfare
     3. Expenditure on welfare services
     4. Funding for welfare services
     5. Welfare expenditure
     6. International comparisons
     7. Human resources for welfare services
     8. Community services occupations
     9. Community services industries
     10. Unpaid workforce
     11. Summary
     12. References
  8. Indicators of Australia's welfare (291KB PDF; 1.54MB RTF)
     1. Introduction
     2. Healthy living
     3. Autonomy and participation
     4. Social cohesion
     5. Summary
     6. References
• End matter
  • Appendixes (263KB PDF; 4.44MB RTF)
    1. The national information infrastructure
    2. Appendix tables
  • Population tables (95KB PDF; 577KB RTF)
  • Abbreviations (53KB PDF; 47KB RTF)
  • Glossary (88KB PDF; 80KB RTF)
  • Index (144KB PDF; 473KB RTF)