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Research exploring consumer experiences of family services has uncovered how families navigate parenting and family violence supports, with findings highlighting both key differences in their respective journeys, and the practices that help them thrive.
Families, young people and individuals are facing intensifying pressures rooted in structural inequities across housing, financial security, social services and community infrastructure. These pressures are increasing demand for crisis responses, overwhelming frontline systems and undermining the aims of Victoria’s major reform agendas.
Invest in a Victorian Youth Wellbeing and Stability Package that consolidates and strengthens early intervention, youth‑appropriate housing, homelessness responses & more.
Invest in a Social Service Systems Navigation Package that embeds navigation as a core, statewide early‑intervention function — complementing existing navigation roles …
With the Victorian Government progressing much-needed reforms across the early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector, in late 2025, Uniting made a submission to the Inquiry into the ECEC sector …
A recent evaluation of our Family Preservation and Reunification Program (FPR) has found strong evidence that the program is making a meaningful …
As leaders of some of Australia’s largest not-for-profit early learning providers, we welcome the National Law changes being considered by the Victorian …
A recent Uniting study shows almost two-thirds of families supported by our family services were experiencing family violence when they began receiving …
The Essential Services Commission (ESC) commissioned Uniting Social Impact Consulting to undertake research for their handbook “Better practice in responding to family …