Towards New Indicators of Disadvantage Project: Social Exclusion and Children
This Bulletin complements earlier reports in the series that have examined community views on the essentials of life (Bulletin No. 1), the scale and scope of deprivation in Australia (No. 2) and the profile of social exclusion (No. 3). All three Bulletins present aspects of the findings generated by the Left Out and Missing Out: Towards New Indicators of Disadvantage project.
The project is funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC) and is based on collaboration between the SPRC and our Industry Partners Mission Australia, the Brotherhood of St Laurence, ACOSS and Anglicare, Diocese of Sydney.
The project report Towards New indicators of Disadvantage: Deprivation and Social Exclusion in Australia was released in November 2007 (Saunders, Naidoo and Griffiths, 2007), and can be downloaded from the SPRC website at www.sprc.unsw.edu.au or provided in hard copy free of charge on request.
The focus of this Bulletin is on social exclusion among Australian children, although it is based on data provided by those adults who participated in the two surveys that are an integral part of the project.
In this regard, the results should be seen as being indicative only, since they need to be supplemented by other studies that examine more directly the nature and impact of social exclusion as they are experienced by children themselves. (This is the focus of a new ARC-funded SPRC project that is being conducted in partnership with a number of government and non-government agencies; the findings of the new project will be described in future issues of the SPRC Newsletter).
Towards New Indicators of Disadvantage Project: SOCIAL EXCLUSION AND CHILDREN
