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ACE
- Obesity Project Report
www.health.vic.gov.au/healthpromotion/quality/ace_obesity.htm
This
is the final report of a two-year project funded by the
Victorian Department of Human Services that assessed the
cost-effectiveness of interventions to prevent childhood
obesity in Australia (ACE-Obesity project).
Children
in a Changing World: Getting It Right [conference]
www.crin.org/resources/infoDetail.asp?ID=6916&flag=event
The
speed of change in the modern world brings many new challenges
for those working to protect children and safeguard their
welfare. The title of the Congress, Children in a Changing
World: Getting It Right, reflects the need to ensure that
research, knowledge, policies, the shape of services and
practice skills address these challenges and take advantage
of the opportunities, as well as recognises the dangers
and adverse consequences.
Report
of the Taskforce on Paediatric Cardiac Services
www.health.qld.gov.au/news/paed_taskforce/paed_card_report.pdf
The
outcomes of the recent Review of Paediatric Cardiac Services,
chaired by Professor Craig Mellis (the Mellis Review), indicated
that Queensland’s growing population may be best served
for the future
by a new model of care. The Taskforce on Paediatric Cardiac
Services was established by government on 27 March 2006
in response to the Mellis Review recommendations.
Report
on Allegations Concerning the Treatment of Children and
Young People in Residential Care
http://www.ombudsman.wa.gov.au/pdf/reports/DCDReport.pdf
An independent
two-year investigation into the administration of hostels
run by the Department for Community Development (DCD).
Youth
Homelessness In Rural Australia
www.apo.org.au/linkboard/results.chtml?filename_num=99605
Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
Young
people facing or experiencing homelessness in rural Australia
have
very different experiences to their urban contemporaries.
RAND
Child Policy
www.rand.org/research_areas/children/
RAND
Child Policy serves as a gateway to RAND research on children's
issues from prenatal to age 18, and provides easy access
to objective information that will help improve policy and
decisionmaking.
Children
At Risk Of Social Exclusion: Methodology And Overview
www.apo.org.au/linkboard/results.chtml?filename_num=93356
National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM)
This
paper by Robert Tanton, Ann Harding, Anne Daly, Justine
McNamara and Mandy Yap, reports on recent work conducted
by the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling
(NATSEM) on an area index measuring Australian children
who are at risk of being in social exclusion.
The
Aboriginal Child Sexual Assault Taskforce (ACSAT)
www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/acsat
Established
to look into child sexual assault in Aboriginal communities
across NSW. ACSAT has considered ways to improve services
to Aboriginal children, young people and families who have
experienced child sexual assault. The report Breaking
the Silence: Creating the Future has been released and
can be downloaded from their website.
The
Role Of Environmental Characteristics In Changing The Pathways
To Adolescent Antisocial Behaviour Of High-And Low-Risk
Children
www.apo.org.au/linkboard/results.chtml?filename_num=89372
Australian Institute of Family Studies
In this
conference presentation Nick Richardson, Diana Smart, Suzanne
Vassallo, Ann Sanson and Inez Dussuyer use the Australian
Temperament Project to explore the ways in which developmental
pathways of resilient and low risk but antisocial children
can be identified.
Private
Hospitals, Australia, 2004-05
www.apo.org.au/linkboard/results.chtml?filename_num=89406
Australian Bureau of Statistics
This
publication presents data for the private hospital sector
in 2004-05. Comparable data for public hospitals are available
in Australian Hospital Statistics 2004-05, produced by the
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). According
to this publication, about 4 in 10 hospital patients in
Australia were admitted to private hospitals in 2004-05,
representing 30% of all days of hospitalisation.
The
effectiveness of parent education and home visiting child
maltreatment prevention programs
www.aifs.gov.au/nch/issues/issues24.html
Prue J Holzer, Jenny R Higgins, Leah M Bromfield and
Daryl J Higgins
This
paper investigates the effectiveness of child maltreatment
prevention programs. The paper begins with an overview of
the different types of prevention programs (for example,
primary/universal, secondary and tertiary interventions)
and the way in which programs can be evaluated.
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