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More than half of children under two and nearly half of children aged three to five are not being read to every day at home. Shutterstock

January 11, 2018

Schools can’t tackle child literacy levels alone – it takes a village

Catherine Wade, Parenting Research Centre

Amid concerns about Australia’s position in international literacy rankings, parents are an untapped resource for improving literacy.

Social workers can successfully work with most families that find themselves in trouble without taking their children away. Nadezhda1906/Flickr

October 31, 2014

Child protection: how to keep vulnerable kids with their families

Aron Shlonsky, The University of Melbourne and Robyn Mildon, Parenting Research Centre

After a long period of expansion in the number of children living in out-of-home care, most modern child protection systems around the world have been labouring to prevent such placements. Instead, they’re…

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Natalie Day
Postdoctoral research fellow, Early Start, Parenting Research Centre
Robyn Mildon
Associate professor, Head of Centre for Evidence and Implementation, Parenting Research Centre

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