ACOSS Reports & Submissions
Community Services
September 2004
Giving Australia is a collaboration specifically formed to meet the challenges posed by this important research. It brings together a depth of research expertise and a breadth of networks across the non-profit and business sectors and their respective stakeholder groups.
Published by Giving Australia, September 2004. Giving Australia is a major research project investigating volunteering and donations by individuals and businesses in Australia. The project was an initiative of the Prime Minister's Community Business Partnership, and is being coordinated by ACOSS in collaboration with other research partners.
August 2004
ACOSS Info paper 359. Published by ACOSS, 2004.
Includes: Community services. National Competition Policy (NCP) and low-income and disadvantaged Australians. Social benefit and Public Interest Test. Markets, quasi-markets and social welfare.
July 2004
ACOSS Info paper 358.
Despite substantial improvements in payments that assist with the costs of caring for young children since 2000, there are large gaps between the minimum costs of care for babies and toddlers and the level of financial help available from the Government. These high costs are one of the reasons that the birth rate has fallen over the last few decades.
Includes: Costs and requirements of infant and toddler care. Family Tax Benefit. Child Care Benefit. Baby Bonus. Paid maternity leave. Estimated costs and problems of care, and family assistance payments, for toddlers, babies and children. Government child care payments.
June 2004
The primary interest of ACOSS in the application and impact of National Competition Policy is in relation to improvements or deterioration in the lives of low income and disadvantaged Australians, and improvements or deterioration in the circumstances of community agencies seeking to support low income and disadvantaged Australians.
ACOSS Info paper 359. Includes: Community services. National Competition Policy (NCP) and low-income and disadvantaged Australians. Social benefit and Public Interest Test. Markets, quasi-markets and social welfare.
June 2004
The survey examines key changes in the operating environment of Housing Services, major issues of concern to these organisations, and how they are responding. Indirectly, the survey also provide a sense of how Australian families are faring when accessing or attempting to access Housing Services.
ACOSS Info paper 357. Includes: Community Services sector. Housing services. The pressures upon delivery of service. Agency income, costs and insurance. Centrelink. Federal government policy changes effect upon housing service agencies.
May 2004
This survey report is based on an analysis of the sixth Australians Living on the Edge survey of the community services sector conducted by ACOSS and the state and territory Councils of Social Service in late 2003. The survey examines key changes in the operating environment of Children's Services, major issues of concern to these organisations, and how they are responding. Indirectly, the survey also provides a sense of how Australian families are faring when accessing or attempting to access Children's Services.
ACOSS Info paper 356. Includes: Children's services. Children's services agencies. Labour force. Agency costs. Pressures upon child services delivery, funding and insurance.
February 2004
Many low and middle income parents struggle with the costs of raising their children. Improving payments to families - such as Family Tax Benefit Parenting Payment and Child Care Benefit - is a fairer and more cost effective way to help these familiesthan across-the-board cuts in income tax.
ACOSS Paper 135. Includes: Cost of children. Family assistance payments. Earned income tax credits. ACOSS proposals for reform of payments. Benefits & costs of package.
January 2004
This is the sixth Australians Living on the Edge survey of the community services sector conducted by ACOSS and the state and territory Councils of Social Service. The survey examines key changes in the operating environment of community organisations, major issues of concern to organisations, and how the community services sector is responding. Indirectly, the survey also aims to provide a sense of how the primary users of community services - low-income and disadvantaged Australians - are faring.
ACOSS Paper 132. Includes: Community services survey of organisations.
December 2003
Includes: Aboriginal and Torres-Strait Islander Legal Services (ATSILS). Community Legal Centres (CLC). Legal Aid funding. Legal Assistance Needs Project (LAN). Human rights. Family Law. Levels of self-representation. Community legal centres. Private legal profession and pro bono legal services.
August 2003
ACOSS Paper - published by ACOSS 2003
The third edition of the ER Handbook is a practical, hands-on resource for paid and unpaid ER service workers who are engaged in the delivery of ER to clients. Managers and coordinators of community organisations and Australian Government departments will also find useful information about the design and evaluation of ER services.
