Income Support and Staying in School: What Can We Learn from Australia's AUSTUDY Experiment?

Dearden, Lorraine; Heath, Alexandra

doi:10.1111/j.1475-5890.1996.tb00246.x

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“…In England, primary school children have the option of bringing a packed lunch from home, or paying for a school meal. Under the current policy all children up to seven years are eligible for a free school meal, with 85% of families electing for children to receive a school provided meal rather than providing a packed lunch [23]. Beyond the age of seven, parents have to pay approximately £2 pounds/AU$3.50 per day, and the uptake in school lunches varies from 34 to 99 percent [23].…”

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Comparison of school day eating behaviours of 8–11 year old children from Adelaide, South Australia, and London, England Running title: Child eating behaviours in South Australia and England

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ObjectiveSchool food intake makes a considerable contribution to children's overall diet, especially fruit and vegetable intake. Comparing differing school food provision systems can provide novel insights for intervention and improved nutrition policy. This study compared school day food in children from Australia and England.DesignChildren completed food frequency questionnaires reporting school day food intake, breakfast intake and family evening meals. Differences in food consumed over the school day between Australian and English children were evaluated. Multinomial logistic regressions compared fruit and vegetable intake, family dinner frequency and breakfast in Australian and English children adjusting for confounders: age, sex, ethnicity and parent education.Setting27 Primary schools in Adelaide, Australia and 32 in London, England.SubjectsN = 772 children aged 8–11 years from the Australian REACH study (n = 347) and UK RHS School Gardening Trial in England (n = 425).ResultsConsiderably more English children reported consuming vegetables at school than Australian children (recess/lunchtime Australian children 3.4%/6.1%; English children recess/lunctime 3.6/51.1%). However, Australian children were more likely to consume vegetables daily (OR = 4.1; 1.3, 12.5), and have family evening meals everyday [OR = 4.01; 1.88, 8.55], and were less likely to consume breakfast (OR = 0.26; 0.08, 0.79) than English children.ConclusionsFindings indicate that provision of a school lunch meal, compared to a packed lunch from home, may be more supportive of children's vegetable intake. However, without a supportive home environment that encourages vegetable intake, children will not be able to consume sufficient amounts of vegetables.

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Comparison of school day eating behaviours of 8–11 year old children from Adelaide, South Australia, and London, England Running title: Child eating behaviours in South Australia and England

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“…The extent to which this essentially unprecedented situation will result in competition between educational and labour-force institutions for youthful participants has yet seen very little investigation; Easterlin (1988) raised similar issues theoretically. However, there are strong indications that at least some of the recent increase in tertiary student numbers has reflected hidden unemployment, rather than a true upsurge in tertiary participation (Dearden and Heath 1995;Lewis and Koshy 1999). The trends in Figure 4 could thus well foreshadow a decline in university and other tertiary student numbers, emerging first in the oldest regions while in the youngest regions numbers will still be increasing.…”

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As the population clock winds down: Indicative effects of population ageing in Australia’s States and Territories

Jackson

Felmingham

2002

Journal of Population Research

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Among the more profound features of population ageing is its regionality. This regionality is particularly marked in Australia, where the timing and speed of ageing are occurring at substantially different rates by state and territory. The shift to natural decline is expected to create many social, economic and political predicaments where it is first experienced. In Australia, Tasmania will be the first to enter natural decline, followed soon thereafter by South Australia, but not for several years by the youngest states and territories. These diverging demographic forces will have many implications for the complex mixture of federal, state and local government that currently adjudicates over policymaking and implementation, especially concerning the collection of taxes, the distribution of the goods and services of the Welfare State, and a large element of fiscal redistribution. This paper provides an overview of demographic characteristics and dynamics by region, and examines their projected effects on three socio-economic indicators: educational demand, the labour market, and demand for Age Pensions. The changing demography will have both beneficial and adverse affects, and unless the profound regionality is soon understood and engaged with, currently older and younger states are likely to encounter not only diverging demographic forces, but also diverging fortunes.Population ageing is occurring unevenly across and within the various countries and regions of the world. A related transition to low or zero natural growth or natural decline, projected to occur in all developed countries by mid-century, is expected to cause unprecedented social, economic, and political predicaments in those countries and regions where it is first experienced. According to the United Nations Population Division (2000: 4), the emerging situation requires objective and comprehensive reassessments of many long-established economic, social and political policies and programs. This will certainly be the case in Australia, where a complex mixture of federal, state, and local governments and non-governmental agencies have responsibility for the collection of taxes, the funding and redistribution of the goods and services of the Welfare State, and of the State in general; and where the impact of ageing and the onset of natural decline in each state and territory will differ across a substantial time span.

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“…The evaluation also attempted to ascertain whether a young person from a low-income household was more likely to participate in post-compulsory education as a result of changes made to benefit regulations for both students and the unemployed. The evaluation showed that, over the 1989-1993 period, participation rates among young people from less financially privileged backgrounds had increased by between 3.5 and 4 percentage points as a result of the initiative (Dearden and Heath 1996).…”

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Paying young people to learn – does it work?¹

Maguire

2008

Research in Post-Compulsory Education

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Income Support and Staying in School: What Can We Learn from Australia's AUSTUDY Experiment?

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Comparison of school day eating behaviours of 8–11 year old children from Adelaide, South Australia, and London, England<br> <em>Running title: Child eating behaviours in South Australia and England</em>

Comparison of school day eating behaviours of 8–11 year old children from Adelaide, South Australia, and London, England<br> <em>Running title: Child eating behaviours in South Australia and England</em>

As the population clock winds down: Indicative effects of population ageing in Australia’s States and Territories

Paying young people to learn – does it work?¹

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Income Support and Staying in School: What Can We Learn from Australia's AUSTUDY Experiment?

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Comparison of school day eating behaviours of 8–11 year old children from Adelaide, South Australia, and London, England<br> <em>Running title: Child eating behaviours in South Australia and England</em>

Comparison of school day eating behaviours of 8–11 year old children from Adelaide, South Australia, and London, England<br> <em>Running title: Child eating behaviours in South Australia and England</em>

As the population clock winds down: Indicative effects of population ageing in Australia’s States and Territories

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