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  • Family income
  • Parental employment
  • Family expenditure on children
  • Poverty
  • Food security
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Our Vision: All families in NSW meet their children's basic economic needs.

Economic security means families can provide their children with basic needs such as adequate food, housing, clothing and education.

Economic security can also influence a family's capacity to participate in community life.

For some children and young people, living in families that are poor may mean coping with extra family stress and conflict.

The effect of these experiences can follow them throughout their life and limit their future opportunities. The aspects of economic security looked at on Kids Stats are:

• family income
• parental employment
• family expenditure on children
• food security.

"Without money, we wouldn't be here - in this house. We'd be on the street. You need money for food and the bills would keep coming in!" (Girl, 12)