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