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The capacity of ARACY to achieve its purpose requires strong representation from a diverse range of individuals and organisations that are willing to collaborate to enhance the wellbeing and life chances of Australia’s children and young people. Solutions to the complex problems affecting children and young people lie beyond the capacity of any one organisation working alone.

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Member Profile: The Social Policy Research Centre

The Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC) is a specialist research centre of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales. The SPRC conducts research on all aspects of social policy, disseminates research findings, promotes research training through PhD study and contributes to policy. The SPRC has the strongest concentration of social policy researchers in Australia. It has extensive national and international connections and research collaborations with leading universities, research centres and international policy agencies. The Centre’s policy research is situated both nationally and internationally.
SPRC is engaged in the following fields of research:

• poverty, inequality and social inclusion/exclusion
• communities, families and care through the life course
• organisation and delivery of human services.

Under our research program SPRC focuses on understanding the intersections of the formal and informal economies and social networks of support and care. These issues encompass: informal and formal care provision for children, people with disability, long term illness or frailty due to ageing; cognitive, emotional and social development in children and young people and inter-generational mobility; older people and active ageing; supporting and enhancing the capacity and participation of people with disability; intra-family relations and inter-household material and social support networks; social attitudes and norms; and community needs, networks and capacity building. Integral to these issues are inequalities related to gender, socioeconomic class, cultural background including Indigenous and culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.


For more information on how to become an ARACY member or a signatory to the Commitment of Young Australians, please contact ARACY. 

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