Children, Young people and Families

VCOSS is urging the State Government to take significant steps to ease the financial burden for school families.

There’s a well established link between poverty and poor oral health. No child should be ashamed to smile or scared

Victoria needs an ambitious social housing building program to provide a roof to those most in need.

VCOSS blasts plan for more school expulsions in Victoria

All school-age children should be able to play sport however simply making PE compulsory isn’t the right response.

The real issue isn’t intergenerational welfare dependency, it’s intergenerational disadvantage.

A 13.6% increase in homelessness demonstrates just how much work we have to do.

Think education in free in Victoria? Think again.

VCOSS has joined a coalition of justice, human rights, social service and Aboriginal organisations to call on the Victorian Government

VCOSS is outraged the Victorian Parliament has blocked the construction of new public housing planned for Melbourne’s east.

Victorians will be rightly horrified by the revelations in The Same Four Walls, a new investigation into cruel and ineffective

VCOSS is warning Victorians to be alert to a series of price hikes due to take effect in 2017. The cost

Victoria’s peak social advocacy body has warned not all Victorians are benefiting from the state’s social and economic growth, and

The Victorian Council of Social Service is warning of a social catastrophe in the Latrobe Valley if local communities aren’t

A coalition of sporting and social groups is calling on the Victorian Government to make sport more affordable for children from

People living in the Latrobe Valley experiencing poorer health and greater levels of disadvantage than the rest of the state

The rising use of technology in the classroom and an increasingly competitive school system is adding significant costs to families’

Reports that Victoria is the most expensive place in Australia to educate a child in a government school shows the

The retirement of Bernie Geary AOM from the role of Victorian Children and Young People’s Commissioner is a timely moment

The Review of the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities tabled in the Victorian Parliament today provides a range of

The Victorian Council of Social Service today welcomed the significant education funding commitments made by the Andrews Government, delivering on

Melbourne being named the world’s most liveable city by the Economist Intelligence Unit for the fifth year running fails to

The Victorian Council of Social Service welcomes the Andrews Government’s long-term plan to improve the support service system for vulnerable

The number of wrongful energy disconnections has reached an all-time high in Victoria, according to the Victorian Council of Social