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Child Inclusive Practice

• Involving Children and Young People in Research, NSW Commission for Children and Young People & ARACY (2009). This compendium of papers seeks to define and address the challenges of changing attitudes toward the right of children and young people to play an active role in the decisions and actions that shape their lives.
• Getting Tough or Getting Together – Robyn Parker, AIFS (2009). This paper looks at a small number of schools in the Wodonga region working with antisocial behaviour where restorative practices have been combined with Family and Community Group Conferencing to create a unique strengths-based program which focuses on the broader context in which antisocial behaviour has occurred.
• AFRC Issues No. 1, 2007, Child inclusion as a principle and as evidence-based practice: Applications to family law services and related sectors, by Dr Jennifer McIntosh, Resource sheet No. 1 provides a summary of this paper.
• Child Focussed Practice and Child Inclusive Practice in the Family Relationships Services Program, A Briefing Paper (2006), Relationships Australia.
• Social Inclusion and Exclusion among Australia's Children: A Review of the literature, a discussion paper by Anne Daly (2006).
• Child social exclusion: an updated index from the 2006 Census(2008), Justine McNamara and others, NATSEM. This paper notes the trend towards the adoption of broader measures of children's social disadvantage (or social exclusion) than are revealed in the data on income poverty. The findings indicate that in areas of high risk common in Australia's rural and regional balance, and in clusters of outer areas in most of Australia's capital cities, that there are pronounced spatial differences in the risk of child social exclusion.Source: ARACY.
• Has the risk of social exclusion for Australian children become more geographically concentrated?:Patterns from 2001 to 2006 (2008), by Anne Daly and others. This paper compares results between censuses and reports on the spatial indices of risk of social exclusion for Australia's children. Source: Australian Policy Online.

Post-separation Child Inclusive Practice

• Children Beyond Dispute, McIntosh et al (2009). A four year follow up study of the outcomes from Child Focused and Child Inclusive post-separation family dispute resolution made for the Attorney-General's Departmnet.
• “…and there's no real way that you could ... make it totally fair": Children's understandings of post-separation decision-making about them, Dr Alan Campbell (2009). The research was informed by the development of child-inclusive practice in this country and by concerns about the place of children's voices in family law decision-making.
• Children Beyond Dispute: A Prospective Study of Outcomes from Child Focused and Child Inclusive Post-Separation Family Dispute Resolution (2006), Family Relationships Online.

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