Child Support Scheme Australia (Public policy)

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TABLE OF CONTENT
TOPIC..............................................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
About Child Support Scheme Australia......................................................................................1
History and reason behind the public policy (Child Support Scheme Australia)........................1
Impact of the change within Australian society because of chosen public policy......................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REREFENCES................................................................................................................................4

TOPIC
Child Support Scheme Australia (Public policy)
INTRODUCTION
Public policy can be defined as a process through which government translate their
political vision into actions or programs in order to deliver outcomes, desired changes with the
society or real world (Skinner, Cook and Sinclair, 2017). These public polices helps the
government in addressing needs and requirements of their citizens in many ways. In order to
benefit citizens of a country, government has introduced various kinds of schemes to the
schemes as public polices for the benefit of their citizens. Each public policy or scheme is
developed targeting a particular desired citizen in order to fulfill their needs. One of the most
important public policy of Australia Child Support Scheme. This scheme focusses on providing
support to children whose parents have been divorced or are living separately. This essay will
focus on History and reason behind the public policy and Impact of the change within Australian
society.
MAIN BODY
About Child Support Scheme Australia
Child support scheme is a scheme which is run by Australian government, Human service
department. This scheme makes sure that parents share all the cost of supporting their children as
well as also make sure that all the needs and requirements of children are being fulfilled
(Luetjens, Mintrom and t Hart, 2019). This scheme makes sure that even if parents get divorced,
they share their cost of raising their children just like if they would not have been separated. This
means even if parents do not live with their children, they are required to support their children.
History and reason behind the public policy (Child Support Scheme Australia)
Child support scheme was introduced in 1988 in response to the concern about court
order adequacy for child maintenance and all the difficulties that occurs in maintenance
collection in Australia. Australian government was also concern about poverty of children and
women after separation. This was only increasing government expenditure for children
maintenance while the other parent did not contribute within upbringing of their children. This
was one of main reason because of which this scheme was introduced so that child maintenance
responsibility can be shared by both the parents (Bandara and et.al., 2018). This shared
responsibility of divorced parents for supporting their children was important to be focused on.
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