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This report studies the social protection for migrants from the Pacific Islands in their host countries of Australia and New Zealand. The report focuses on the access for migrants to social services in the host countries and provisions for the...
Institutions and agencies involved: World Bank Group
Establishing robust, equitable, and effective social protection is essential to reducing poverty and boosting prosperity at all levels of development. The demographic transition that has already transformed most high-income societies will exert similar...
Institutions and agencies involved: World Bank Group
Social service providers, public sector organisations and NGOs in New Zealand are now able to use a new interactive tool which draws together information from across the public sector to show where children and young people are at higher risk.
All OECD countries have vulnerable populations in need of multiple service supports. And although the needs of vulnerable families, children and youth with mental health issues, the homeless, and the frail elderly can vary widely, the challenges...
Institutions and agencies involved: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD
The Government has abandoned a target of increasing the numbers of subsidised social housing places to 65,000, despite growing reports of families living in cars and garages. A pre-Budget report released by the Treasury today shows that the target for...
This toolkit is intended to provide a concise but thorough resource for social protection practitioners on how to minimize error, fraud and corruption in their program(s). It is organized in five sections. The first section introduces the topic, by...
Institutions and agencies involved: World Bank Group
The Government has created a stand-alone agency which will analyse the way social services are delivered and tell the Government what works best. Ms Adams says the agency will make it possible for evidence-based decisions to be made on social service...
About 80,000 students are eligible for the first year of fees-free tertiary education and industry training under the Government's new scheme, developed over the past month.
A $76 million cash injection for frontline agencies dealing directly with victims and perpetrators of family violence has been welcomed by Tauranga social services. However, a local foster care provider says while the funding is an important first step,...