Preliminary research suggests cultural and social services retain or attract employees hard hit by plant closures in other communities. Preserving them may help cities withstand future crises.
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Romani children across Europe are overrepresented in institutional care. Research shows widely held prejudical views and structural inequality is to blame.
Government agencies are setting up new websites and phone hotlines to provide information. But those might not be the best ways to engage with people who need help the most.
Tight funding and COVID-related limits on face-to-face contact have forced academics to find other ways to expose students to the real-life work they are preparing them for.
Poverty, vulnerability and discrimination are barriers many Indonesians face in acquiring identity documents.
Indonesia’s system of identity document ownership is rife with systemic problems.
Why are teenagers still being let down?
Rocks exposes the realities of social care, where children feel left out of decisions that shape their lives.
Food pantries, the providers of services to the homeless and similar organizations now face enormous challenges.
The MyGov website ground to a halt this week as thousands of people tried to access welfare support. As a result, long queues popped up at Centrelink offices across the country.
Women and children remain vulnerable to harm even after intimate violence has occurred. Coordinating a community’s response can help avoid educational, employment, social, housing and legal problems.
Children’s voices are being omitted from their care records, with devastating effect.
Many cities have no standard method for counting the number of people who live in their cars. This means that their issues are often overlooked in policies designed to help the homeless.
It’s the people most dependent on social services, who are least able to easily transition into the digital age.
Children growing up in Northern Ireland are far less likely to be in foster or residential care than those in England, Scotland or Wales.
A new regulation makes it easier for the government to contract local NGOs.
The Trump administration wants to privatize more of the federal bureaucracy. New research suggests this can lead to discrimination in essential government services.
Treasurer Scott Morrison abandoned the proposed increase to the Medicare levy to pay for the NDIS. Here’s what you need to know about how the NDIS is funded, and how cost predictions have changed.
Sure Start centres are shutting or becoming ‘hubs’, but will they still provide the services which local families value and need?
Politics Podcast: Brian Howe on Revisiting Henderson, Poverty and Basic Income.
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Brian Howe says the targeted nature of Australia's social security system goes hand-in-hand with stigmatising welfare recipients.
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Professor, Digital Sociology and Social Policy, The University of Queensland
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Director, PUSKAPA
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Lead for Research, Monitoring and Evaluation, PUSKAPA
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Professor, Head of Department of Management, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Reader in Social Work, University of York
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Chair of the Child Protection Research Centre, University of Edinburgh
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Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Health and Social Policy, University of Liverpool
