Target: Halve the proportion of Queensland children living in households without a working parent
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Children living in jobless households
This chart represents the annual average decline required over the period to 2020 to achieve the target.
Source: ABS Survey of Income and Housing (ABS Cat. No. 6541.0). The baseline represents available data when Q2 was released on 8 September 2009. Note: The ABS has revised its previously incorrect published figure of 16.2 per cent to 15.9 per cent.
In 2007–08, nearly 11 per cent of Queensland children aged under 15 were living in a home without a working parent. That’s approximately 91,000 Queensland children.
This is a significant decrease on the 2005-06 proportion of children in jobless households and reflects both the strong growth in employment in the period to mid 2008 and an increase in the birth rate across Australia. Queensland now has a lower proportion of children living in jobless households than the national average of 12.6 per cent.
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Progress toward the target
Reports
Case study
Youth and Family Service (Logan City) PiP project
The Youth and Family Service (Logan City) Participate in Prosperity (PiP) program is assisting all people with the capacity to work move into the labour force, including unemployed parents and others who have struggled to break through barriers. The organisation was initially funded for a pilot PiP project and in 2008–09 received a $532,900 grant to continue its work.
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More information
Useful links
- Jobless Families in Australia: Their Prevalence, Personal and Societal Costs, and Possible Policy Responses, January 2009 (PDF, 254 KB) (external site)
- Intergenerational Disadvantage, January 2009 (PDF, 257 KB) (external site)
- Still doing it tough: an update on deprivation and social exclusion among welfare service clients, July 2009 (PDF, 1.5 MB) (external site)
- Healthy, wealthy and wise?: The relationship between health, employment and earnings in Australia (non-government site) (AMP.NATSEM Income and Wealth Report Issue 23 - By Binod Nepal, Alicia Payne and Laurie Brown AMP.NATSEM, Sydney, Other Publication - OP68)
- Australian Social Inclusion Board (external site)
Last updated Thursday, February 25, 2010
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