Recent data from Statistics Canada shows crime rates in Canada rising. Crime has become a hot-button political issue in Canadian cities. But what does the data actually mean?
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Robodebt affected hundreds of thousands of people and undercut trust in our political and social welfare systems. Unless we act on today’s royal commission report, something like it will happen again.
While technology can be a useful tool, it can also divert funding and attention from the root causes of the social welfare issues it aims to address.
Higher levels of income inequality in youth are associated with increased ‘deaths of despair’ in young Canadians.
Non-profits provide critical services and social support for communities. They also provide settings where vital forms of social capital are produced.
Bill C-7 has created ethical tensions between MAID providers and palliative care, between transparency and patient privacy, and between offering a dignified death rather than a dignified life.
Andrea Magalhaes hasn’t demanded vengeance since her son was murdered — she’s called for expanding the social safety net to address the root causes of crime. Public officials should listen to her.
Family court proceedings place a huge strain on survivors and their families. Here’s what you need to know.
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.
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.
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Director, PUSKAPA
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Lead for Research, Monitoring and Evaluation, PUSKAPA
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Professor, Digital Sociology and Social Policy, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Head of Department of Management, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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Chair of the Child Protection Research Centre, The University of Edinburgh
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Associate Professor in Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Associate professor, UNSW Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Sessional academic, Faculty of Higher Education, Swinburne University of Technology
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Reader in Social Work, University of York
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Professor of Economics and Theology at Alphacrucis College, Sydney, Alphacrucis College
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Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW Sydney
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ANZSOG Adjunct Research Fellow, Curtin University
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Professor of Health and Social Policy, University of Liverpool
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
