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• Policy submission Submission to the Commonwealth Task Force on Child Development, Health and Wellbeing

  September 2003

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• Research report Turning values into action: developing a Code of Ethical Behaviour

  By Sonya Holm and Serena Lillywhite 2003

  This report describes the process undertaken to develop a Code of Ethical Behaviour at the Brotherhood of St. Laurence, as a means to improve corporate social responsibility.

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• Policy submission Submission to the Standing Committee on Employment and Workplace Relations Inquiry into Employment: increasing participation in paid work

  August 2003

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• Research report Values, unemployment and public policy: the need for a new direction

  By Daniel Perkins and Philippa Angley 2003

  This BSL discussion paper examines the change in values informing public policy in Australia over the last 25 years, and its negative impact on society.

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• Policy submission Submission to the Working Age Task Force, in response to the discussion paper: ‘Building a simpler system to help jobless families and individuals’

  June 2003

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• Research report Preparing for what? The administration of Youth Allowance Activity Agreements for young job seekers

  By Sally Jope and Rosie Beaumont 2003

  This report presents findings from interviews with young job seekers, Centrelink officers and youth workers, and from the examination of Preparing for Work Agreements

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• Research report Eleven plus: life chances and family income

  By Janet Taylor and Alex Fraser 2003

  This report from BSL's longitudinal Life Chances Study of children born in 1990 explores family change, current issues including schooling, and the children’s own perspectives on their lives at 11 and 12 years of age.

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• Policy submission Submission to the Senate Inquiry into Poverty and Financial Hardship in Australia

  March 2003

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• Research report Much obliged: disadvantaged job seekers' experiences of the mutual obligation regime

  By Stephen Ziguras, Gavin Dufty and Mark Considine 2003

  A joint research project conducted by the Brotherhood of St. Laurence, the St. Vincent de Paul Society and the Centre for Public Policy, University of Melbourne, which reveals that some Centrelink requirements actually hinder people, especially those facing multiple barriers, from finding work.

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• Research report Who will care? The recruitment and retention of community care (aged and disability) workers

  By Philippa Angley and Belinda Newman 2002

  This report explores the challenge of recruiting staff to meet the needs of increasing numbers of frail older people and people with a disability who wish to remain living at home.

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