This report describes the characteristics and activity of Australia's mental health services including ambulatory and residential mental health-related care provided by hospitals, community-based services, general practitioners, private psychiatrists and some disability support services. Information on the broad trends in mental health care is presented in an easy-to-use summary. Detailed statistics show the hospital care of...

This report is based on information from three national child protection data collections - child protection notifications, investigations and substantiations; children on care and protection orders; and children in out-of-home care. Most of the data in this report cover the 2003-04 financial year, although data on trends in child protection are also included.

A number of organisations currently collect information on children's services. While there is some duplication of information across the collections, there are also notable gaps, and no single collection or combination of collections, is able to provide an accurate measure of the number and proportion of children who attend child care and/or preschool. This bulletin...

This report describes the development of and presents the first six months' data from the newly developed national collection of data on medical indemnity claims in the public sector. The medical indemnity national collection includes both claims that have materialised and potential claims. The data in this report cover claims current at any time during...

What is known about children with disabilities in Australia, in terms of their characteristics, and the needs and circumstances of them and their families? What is known about the services, benefits and assistance provided to them? This report uses a range of information sources to explore these questions and present for the first time, an...