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Submission to Victoria's inquiry into children affected by parental incarceration
We know that when a person goes to prison their entire community and family, including children, are impacted. Limiting people’s involvement with the justice system by ensuring prison is reserved only as an option of last resort, and keeping families connected is the best way to prevent this harm...
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Federal Election 2022 platform – A blueprint for a just recovery
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many pre-existing social and economic issues in Australia to the fore, from housing stress, to poverty, family violence, and insecure employment. As an organisation working with some of the most disadvantaged members of the community, we have witnessed firsthand the disproportionate impact of this crisis on already marginalised people and communities.
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Submission to the Review of the National Housing and Homelessness Agreement
Jesuit Social Services works with many people – especially those with mental health and substance misuse issues, newly-arrived refugees and migrants, those exiting prison, and those leaving out-of-home care – who are experiencing or have experienced homelessness, inappropriate or unsafe housing,...
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Submission to the Inquiry into the Protections within the Victorian Planning Framework
Jesuit Social Services recently contributed a submission to the Inquiry into the Protections within the Victorian Planning Framework. ...
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Prisons, climate and a just transition
Australia, like many other countries, is seeing the damaging impact of climate change on communities and ecosystems. In the face of these worsening climate change impacts, marginalised people and communities are most at risk, including people in prison. In December 2019, when bushfires burned close...
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Submission to the Cultural Review of the Adult Custodial Corrections System
Jesuit Social Services was pleased to contribute a response to the Cultural Review of the Adult Custodial Corrections System. ...
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Submission to the National Disability Insurance Agency’s Home and Living Policy
Jesuit Social Services recently contributed a submission to the development of the National Disability Insurance Agency’s (NDIA) Home and Living Policy. The aim of the consultation was to inform the way the NDIA supports participants to pursue their home and living goals. ...
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Submission to the Inquiry into Victoria’s Criminal Justice System
COVID-19 has shown that alternative ways of operating the justice system are possible, and that there is an opportunity to ‘build back better’ with a socially and environmentally just system that is driven by evidence and best practice. ...
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Submission to the Social Housing Regulation Review
Jesuit Social Services contributed a submission to the Victorian Government’s Social Housing Regulation Review. The aim of the review was to identify future regulatory arrangements in order to strengthen protection for residents, and position social housing for growth and transformation over the...
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Keeping ‘Youth at the Centre’ of our 5th National Justice Symposium
[caption id="attachment_8668" align="alignright" width="300"] Julie Edwards with international speakers Candice C. Jones and Clinton Lacey in their session at the National Justice Symposium[/caption] ...