Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title page and verso
    • Letter of transmittal
    • Editors and authors
    • Contents
    • Preface
    • Acknowledgements
    • Symbols
  • Chapters
    1. Introduction
    2. Welfare services expenditure
      • 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
      • Introduction
      • Sociodemographic change and families
      • Projections 1996-2006
      • Implications for welfare services
    4. Children's and family services
      • Introduction
      • Children's services
      • Family support services
      • Summary
    5. Housing assistance
      • Introduction
      • Services and assistance
      • The recipients
      • The need for and effect of housing assistance
      • Summary
    6. Children in need of protection
      • 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
      • Introduction
      • Assessing need for assistance
      • Services and assistance
      • The recipients of assistance
      • Crisis assistance outcomes
      • Summary
    8. Aged care
      • Introduction
      • The need for care
      • Service provision
      • Outcomes
      • Summary
    9. Disability services
      • Introduction
      • Prevalence of disability and need for services
      • Disability services and assistance
      • Outcomes
      • Summary
  • End matter
    • Appendix tables
    • Technical appendix
    • Abbreviations
    • Glossary
    • Index