Summary:
About 12,230 school students were homeless in the week
of the second national census of homeless school students, which
was conducted in August 2001. The rate of homelessness was highest
in the Northern Territory where the majority of homeless students
were in remote communities. The rate was lowest in New South Wales
and Western Australia; however, lower rates of student homelessness
may indicate greater drop-out from school. The paper also outlines
the authors' core policy argument that schools are important sites
for early intervention, and concludes with a discussion of early
intervention policy developments since 1995.
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