doing research with Community Services
Community Services is committed to establishing a solid evidence base to inform policy and service delivery in areas relating to our core business areas of child protection, early intervention and out-of-home care.
Community Services is building strategic collaborations with research institutions and universities in order to develop and consolidate an evidence base for policy and practice.
Collaboration with external research institutions and external researchers supports research of high academic quality that is relevant to our needs.
Researchers seeking Community Services support for their study need to get approval as set out in the Guidelines for external researchers.
research ethics
An ethics guidance paper has been developed to inform researchers who want to access Community Services staff, data or clients about the particular issues they need to consider when developing their research proposals.
This guide will inform Community Services assessment of research proposals.