Submission of feedback on the National Early Years Strategy

ARACY believes all Australian children should be loved and thriving regardless of background or circumstance. To achieve this through the Early Years strategy, ARACY advocates for:• meeting holistic wellbeing needs for children by integrated service provision• adopting evidence-based frameworks and practices such as the Nest and the Common Approach• taking action to repair child development […]

Submission Youth Justice and Child Wellbeing Reform Across Australia 2023

This is ARACY’s submission to the Youth Justice and Child Wellbeing Reform Across Australia 2023 Risk factors for youth offending should be conceptualised through an ecological model and acrossthe life-course to facilitate a systematic approach to addressing the complex, multi-factorialdrivers of youth offending. Children and young people are experts in their own experience and should […]

Australian Children’s Wellbeing Index

UNICEF Australia and ARACY are working to understand what it takes to make Australia an even better place for children to grow up in. Together in 2021 they developed the Australian Children’s Wellbeing Index to provide a picture of how children are faring across all aspects of wellbeing and how that is changing over time. The wellbeing of Australia’s children […]