Disadvantage Report - The Smith Family
Participation
Avoiding the demographic demise: A Smith Family commentary on mature age workers (March 2004) | |
Barriers to participation: financial, technological, educational | A report into the barriers to societal participation among low-income Australians (March 2003) |
Addressing disadvantage through place management: Is there a role for nonprofit organisations? (2001) | |
Social enterprise: An opportunity to harness capacities (December 2000) | |
A Caring World: The New Social Policy Agenda (OECD 1999) makes a case for a new vision of the purpose of social policy (September 2000) |
Financial Disadvantage
Federal Government's Australian Social Inclusion Board | |
Youth unemployment in Australia (November 2003) | |
Getting poverty back on the policy agenda (March 2002) | |
The persistence of poverty in a decade of growth: | |
The launch of The Smith Family/NATSEM report (2000) on financial disadvantage Australia Full Report Briefing Paper | |
Social exclusion and disadvantage in the new | |
Understanding the new economy: the economic and social dimensions | Understanding the new economy: the economic and |
Home to School Transition
Home-to-school transitions |
This report seeks to identify the factors that facilitate or impede the school transitions of Australian children from financially disadvantaged families.
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School to Work Transition
Australian Young People: Their stories, their families and post-school plans | Investigating the effects and influences of family expectations on the cost benefit analyses undertaken by students when they are considering their post-school plans (May 2007) |
Students choosing a career. An investigation of educational and vocational plans of Learning for Life students (March 2006) | |
What do students know about work? Senior secondary students' perceptions of the world of work (September 2005) | |
The Smith Family's response to the DET review of Education and Training Legislation in Victoria | The Smith Family's response to the DET review of Education and Training Legislation in Victoria (May 2005) |
What do students think of work? Are they on the right page? Junior secondary student perceptions of school, work, and vocation (March 2005) | |
Post school plans: aspirations, expectations and implementation | The Smith Family's major research report for 2004, Post-School Plans: aspirations, expectations and implementation, was prepared for The Smith Family by the Australian Council for Educational Research (March 2004) |
School to adult life transitions through work and study: A select review of literature (2002) |