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Health and well-being and family/whanau functioning

The family environment is an important influence on a wide range of social and health outcomes and there is general agreement that strong families lead to…

Inquiry Report: Ministry of Social Development: Preventing, detecting, and investigating benefit fraud

The Ministry of Social Development (the Ministry) expects to pay more than $13 billion in social security benefits in 2007/08. Therefore, it is vital that New…

Literature Review on Models and Efficacy of Illegal Drug Social Marketing Campaigns

The Ministry of Health has identified a social marketing campaign as one potential way to contribute to a reduction in the harm associated with the demand…

Over-representation of Maori in the criminal justice system

Māori are disproportionately represented in criminal justice statistics to an alarming degree. This paper attempts to shed light on why this is so. It examines the…

Seen and Heard: Children's Media Use, Exposure, and Response

With greater access to a variety of media devices and media content, there is a need for new research that updates the information collected during 1999/2000,…

Outcomes of Early Childhood Education: Literature Review

This literature review was commissioned by the Ministry of Education to provide policy makers with a synthesis of research that analyses the impact of early childhood…

The experiences of international students in New Zealand: Report on the results of the national survey 2007

International students are a vibrant part of our education sector providing immense benefit not only to our economy but also to New Zealand education providers, educators…

Alcohol Community Interventions and Services for Pacific Peoples - Stocktake Report

Le Ala’ is a community action research project led by Pacific people from a range of academic and clinical disciplines. It aims to increase Pacific peoples’…

Practicing place: everyday contexts in child and family welfare

Social Work Now, Issue 39, pages 29-37. Place, and its corollary, displacement, lie at the centre of child welfare practice. Child neglect, the issue that more…

Complexity and social work theory and practice

Social Work Now, Issue 39, pages 15-20. Most social workers, wherever they work, deal with complex life situations in their practice. If situations were not difficult…