Table of contents
- Preliminary material (113KB PDF) (33KB RTF)
- Title page and verso
- Contributors
- Contents
- Preface
- Symbols
- Sections
- Introduction (87KB PDF)(23KB RTF)
- Indicators of Australia's welfare (269KB PDF)(987KB RTF)
- Introduction
- Healthy living
- Autonomy and participation
- Social cohesion
- Conclusion
- Children, youth and families (562KB PDF)(1.14MB RTF)
- Introduction
- Australia's children and youth
- Australian families
- Adopted children
- Transitions from early childhood to school entry
- Pathways from education to employment
- Risks associated with childhood and youth
- Conclusion
- Ageing and aged care (320KB PDF)(1.24MB RTF)
- Introduction
- Ageing in Australia
- Support and care for older people
- Use of community care
- Use of residential care
- Client profiles
- Expenditure
- Outcomes
- Summary
- Disability and disability services (331KB PDF)(1.38MB RTF)
- Introduction
- Recent developments
- Disability in the Australian population
- Services and assistance
- Outcomes
- Summary and conclusion
- Assistance for housing (247KB PDF)(570KB RTF)
- Overview
- Housing affordability
- Demographic and social background
- Housing assistance to low-income renters
- Assistance to home owners and purchasers
- Data development
- Conclusion
- Services for people experiencing homelessness (231KB PDF)(647KB RTF)
- Introduction
- Who counts as homeless?
- Another approach to defining the homeless
- Homelessness within SAAP
- Iterative homelessness in the client groups
- SAAP data from 1996-97 to 2003-04
- Australian Government initiatives
- State and territory government initiatives
- Summary
- Welfare services resources (212KB PDF)(980KB RTF)
- Introduction
- Total resources for welfare services
- Expenditure on welfare services
- Funding for welfare services
- Welfare-related social expenditure
- Human resources in community services
- Data environment (106KB PDF)(51KB RTF)
- The national information infrastructure
- Sector-specific and cross-cutting data development activities
- Conclusion
- Appendixes
- End matter (200KB PDF) (253KB RTF)
- Abbreviations
- Glossary
- Population tables
- Index