Table of contents
- Preliminary material (490KB PDF)
- Half title and verso pages
- Title and verso pages
- Contributors
- Contents
- Preface
- Symbols
- Sections
- Introduction (92KB PDF)
- 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
- Children, youth and families (313KB PDF)
- Introduction
- Australia's children and young people
- Australian families
- Early childhood and school entry
- Education and employment
- Children and young people at risk
- Data developments
- Summary
- References
- Ageing and aged care (353KB PDF)
- Introduction
- Australia's older population
- Work and retirement
- Social participation
- Retirement income
- Support for older people - informal care
- Support for older people - aged care services
- Accessing services
- Client profiles and patterns of service use
- Outcomes
- Aged care expenditure
- Summary
- References
- Disability and disability services (274KB PDF)
- Introduction
- Disability in the Australian population
- Care, services and assistance
- Outcomes
- Summary
- References
- Housing for health and welfare (243KB PDF)
- Introduction
- Economic and social issues impacting on housing assistance
- Summary of housing assistance programs
- Current housing policy issues
- Pressure for change in delivery of housing assistance
- Information issues facing housing assistance
- Summary
- References
- The dynamics of homelessness (232KB PDF)
- Introduction
- The major program response to homelessness
- Who is turned away from SAAP accommodation?
- Who counts as homeless?
- Homelessness before and after SAAP accommodation
- People in SAAP with mental health and problematic substance use issues
- Iterative homelessness and SAAP
- SAAP data from 1996 - 97 to 2005 - 06
- Policy initiatives
- Data development
- Summary
- References
- Welfare services resources (226KB PDF)
- Introduction
- Total financial and human resources for welfare
- Expenditure on welfare services
- Funding for welfare services
- Welfare expenditure
- International comparisons
- Human resources for welfare services
- Community services occupations
- Community services industries
- Unpaid workforce
- Summary
- References
- Indicators of Australia's welfare (291KB PDF)
- Introduction
- Healthy living
- Autonomy and participation
- Social cohesion
- Summary
- References
- Introduction (92KB PDF)
- End matter
- Appendixes (263KB PDF)
- The national information infrastructure
- Appendix tables
- Population tables (95KB PDF)
- Abbreviations (53KB PDF)
- Glossary (88KB PDF)
- Index (144KB PDF)
- Appendixes (263KB PDF)