Think Child, Think Family: Child and Family Sensitive Practice within Specialist Homelessness Services: Survey Report 2010

This research aimed to explore the current practice of specialist homelessness services in relation to children and to identify the challenges that homelessness services are facing in addressing the needs of these vulnerable children.

In 2009 a national survey of specialist homelessness services was conducted to investigate how the needs of homeless children were being addressed. Participants identified a wide range of ways in which they addressed the health, material and educational needs of children. What services were able to do to address these needs varied according to the resources available to them, their staffing levels and expertise and their location. A common thread running through the interviews was that although homelessness services did a lot for children, given their limited resources and stretched capacity, there was more that they would like to do.

To read the report visit the Australian Centre for Child Protection publications page.