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Public service implications loom with NDIS review

Community & Social

Bill Shorten has vowed to finish the work of building a responsive and supportive National Disability Insurance Scheme but in order to realise this promise, major work must go into re-orienting the way the government goes about managing and regulating the scheme.

Youth support program to help ‘prolific offenders’ get lives back on track

By Melissa Coade

News

A WA Department of Communities community youth officer will be responsible for the rollout of a new pilot program to help young offenders turn their lives around.

Survey on consent in schools among federal sexual violence prevention package

By Jackson Graham

Federal

Two Australian commissioners will oversee a survey of secondary school students on their attitudes surrounding consent.

In-school mental health support for Victorian secondary students

By Melissa Coade

Community & Social

Victoria has brought forward plans to place mental health practitioners in the state’s secondary schools by a whole year.

New Zealand’s wellbeing budget is a major policy innovation

By Michael Mintrom

Career Advice

New Zealand’s first ‘wellbeing budget’ was delivered last week by Minister of Finance Grant Robertson. As the second budget from Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s Labour-led

Welfare investment approach 'revolutionary' — or is it?

By David Donaldson

Community & Social

Social Services Minister Christian Porter hails his new welfare investment approach as “close to revolutionary”. But how much is it a shift from the hardline approach?

The NZ investment approach: boon or bane?

By David Donaldson

Features

New Zealand’s investment approach to welfare saves money by spending on early intervention, using data to target those who need it. So why is there so much criticism of it?