proceedings of Social Policy Forum 2001

CHILD AND FAMILY: Children in Families

as reflected in Statistics, researCH

and policy

Issues Paper No. 11

Edited by

Stuart Birks

CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY EVALUATION

Published by

Centre for Public Policy Evaluation

College of Business, Massey University

Palmerston North

NEW ZEALAND

November 2001

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page Nos

Introduction       

Chapter One:       Opening Address

                           Laila Harré............................................................................................   1

Chapter Two:       Keynote Address: Children and Public Policy – Putting Children at the Centre

                           John Angus............................................................................................   8

Chapter Three:     Family and Whanau in a Changing World

                           Joan Metge ..........................................................................................  19

Chapter Four:       Statistical Families

                           Frank Nolan.......................................................................................... 26

Chapter Five:       Why be concerned about the statistical family?

                           Stuart Birks ..........................................................................................  34

Chapter Six:         Keynote Address: Evidence-Based Policy and Practice – What Works for Children?

                           Ian Shirley ............................................................................................  41

Chapter Seven:     The NZSCHF definition of ‘family’ and its implications

                           Stuart Birks........................................................................................... 53

About the authors ............................................................................................................  63

The whole Issues Paper can be accessed as a pdf file here.