More than half of children under two and nearly half of children aged three to five are not being read to every day at home. Shutterstock January 11, 2018 Schools can’t tackle child literacy levels alone – it takes a village Catherine Wade, Parenting Research Centre Amid concerns about Australia’s position in international literacy rankings, parents are an untapped resource for improving literacy.
Social workers can successfully work with most families that find themselves in trouble without taking their children away. Nadezhda1906/Flickr October 31, 2014 Child protection: how to keep vulnerable kids with their families Aron Shlonsky, The University of Melbourne and Robyn Mildon, Parenting Research Centre After a long period of expansion in the number of children living in out-of-home care, most modern child protection systems around the world have been labouring to prevent such placements. Instead, they’re…