Table of contents
- Preliminary material
- Title page and verso
- Letter of transmittal
- Contributors
- Contents
- Preface
- Symbols
- Sections
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Introduction
- Government policy initiatives
- Developments in community services and housing information
- Performance indicators and data development
- ABS activities
- Developments in longitudinal data and cross-sectoral analysis
- Welfare services resources
- Introduction
- Total resources
- The contribution of the households sector
- The community services workforce
- Monetary expenditure on welfare services
- International comparisons
- Summary
- Assistance for housing
- Introduction
- The economic and social background
- Housing services and assistance
- Housing assistance to Indigenous Australians
- Data development
- Conclusion
- Deinstitutionalisation: the move towards community-based care
- Introduction
- From institution to community
- Analysing the census data
- Specific policy areas
- Conclusion
- Children's and family services
- Introduction
- Families and children in Australia
- Assistance for families
- Child care and preschool services
- Child protection and out-of-home care services
- Adoptions
- Data developments
- Conclusion
- Aged care
- Introduction
- The need for care
- Service provision
- Outcomes
- Summary
- Disability services
- Introduction
- Prevalence of disability and need for assistance
- Services and assistance
- Outcomes
- Conclusion
- Services for homeless people
- Introduction
- Concepts of homelessness
- Services available
- Demand for services
- Assistance to SAAP clients
- Needs, interventions, outcomes: measurement frameworks
- Introduction
- Frameworks for measuring welfare and service performance
- Developing indicators of welfare
- Future directions
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- End matter
- Appendix tables
- Abbreviations
- Glossary
- Population tables
- Index