A safe and supportive family environment for children: Key components and links to child outcomes

Abstract

"Families are the mainstay of safety and support for children. While most children live in safe and supportive<br/ >environments, governments are aware that too many children are becoming known to child protection<br/ >services. This has led to a shift in thinking away from solely concentrating on responding to 'risk of harm'<br/ >reports towards a broader public health approach to protecting all of Australia's children, reducing the<br/ >likelihood of children coming to the attention of statutory authorities. This report aims to understand more<br/ >about the prevalence of different types of family environments in society and to explore the influence of<br/ >these environments on different child outcomes. Using data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian<br/ >Children, we used latent class cluster analysis to identify different family environments and analysed the<br/ >associations between these environments and particular child outcomes." (page vii)<br/ ><br/ >Creative Commons