Table of contents
- Preliminary material
- Title page and verso
- Letter of transmittal
- Contributors
- Contents
- Preface
- Symbols
- Chapters
- Introduction
- Changes in community services since 1997
- Directions in family and community services
- Taxation reform
- Recent developments in community services information
- The Review of Commonwealth - State Service Provision
- Expenditure on welfare services
- Introduction
- Total expenditure
- Expenditure by governments
- Recurrent government expenditure on welfare services by four welfare services categories
- The contribution of community service organisations
- Tax expenditures in the community services sector
- The contribution of the household sector
- International comparison of government expenditure on welfare services
- Summary
- Changing work patterns and the community services workforce
- Introduction
- Changing patterns of work
- The community services workforce
- Factors affecting the demand for community services
- Factors affecting the supply of community services
- Overview and future prospects
- Children's and family services
- Introduction
- Families and children in Australia
- Family payments and tax expenditures
- Child care and preschool services
- Family support services
- Assistance for housing
- Introduction
- Profile of housing tenure
- Housing services and assistance
- Housing assistance for Indigenous Australians
- Data development
- Aged care
- Introduction
- The need for care
- Service provision
- Outcomes
- Summary
- Disability services
- Introduction
- The prevalence of disability
- Services and assistance
- Outcomes
- Summary
- Child protection and support services
- Introduction
- Child abuse and neglect
- Children on care and protection orders
- Children in out-of-home care
- Future directions
- Services for homeless people
- Introduction
- The need for services for homeless people
- Programs for homeless people
- Recipients of assistance
- Services provided
- Outcomes for clients
- Introduction
- End matter
- Appendix tables 1
- Abbreviations
- Glossary
- Population data
- Index