Family services

This report examines the scale, economic contributions, workforce challenges, and pressures facing Australia’s care industry.

The report highlights how social media and gaming platforms harm Australian children and the need for stronger online safety measures.

Read a report on mothers' employment around childbirth, with significant variation in pre-birth work, return-to-work patterns, and income outcomes. 

This report examines the workforce challenges in Australia’s community services sector, which is facing growing demand but persistent workforce shortages. 

Read the report on an inquiry into the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle in the removal and placement of Aboriginal children in South Australia.

This article seeks to understand who Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children select as role models, and the reasons underlying these choices.

This report captures the experiences of community sector staff through the Covid-19 pandemic, fires and floods, which created a period of pressure for clients and communities.

This article describes Yawardani Jan-ga (“Horses Helping” in Yawuru language), an initiative supporting Aboriginal children and young people through equine-assisted learning.

The themes of this year’s report are Progressing Voice, Treaty, and Truth; Leadership and Governance; and Building our Economies.

A broad review mapping the pressures facing parents raising children in complex circumstances, and the supports that help families cope.

AIFS delivers broad, high-quality family-sector research covering men’s health, migration, child & adolescent wellbeing, domestic violence and ageing.