Children, Young people and Families
VCOSS is urging the State Government to take significant steps to ease the financial burden for school families.
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There’s a well established link between poverty and poor oral health. No child should be ashamed to smile or scared
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Victoria needs an ambitious social housing building program to provide a roof to those most in need.
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All school-age children should be able to play sport however simply making PE compulsory isn’t the right response.
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The real issue isn’t intergenerational welfare dependency, it’s intergenerational disadvantage.
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VCOSS has joined a coalition of justice, human rights, social service and Aboriginal organisations to call on the Victorian Government
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VCOSS is outraged the Victorian Parliament has blocked the construction of new public housing planned for Melbourne’s east.
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Victorians will be rightly horrified by the revelations in The Same Four Walls, a new investigation into cruel and ineffective
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VCOSS is warning Victorians to be alert to a series of price hikes due to take effect in 2017. The cost
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Victoria’s peak social advocacy body has warned not all Victorians are benefiting from the state’s social and economic growth, and
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The Victorian Council of Social Service is warning of a social catastrophe in the Latrobe Valley if local communities aren’t
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A coalition of sporting and social groups is calling on the Victorian Government to make sport more affordable for children from
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