What is a Parent Network? Across Australia, parents are building networks to support one another, share knowledge, navigate challenges and advocate for change. ARACY’s Parent Networks in Australia report maps the parent network ecosystem and explores how parent networks strengthen family wellbeing, elevate lived experience, and contribute to stronger outcomes for children, families and communities. […]
In 2025 alone, Australian children lost an estimated 800,000 days of early learning due to climate-related closures of early childhood education and care services. Floods, bushfires, storms and extreme heat are already disrupting the services children rely on to learn, grow and thrive, and the impacts are not felt equally. Children in disadvantaged and climate-exposed […]
ARACY’s Thriving Kids submission calls for transformational reform so every child in Australia can thrive. We have a rare chance to move systems from reactive and medicalised to preventative, systemic and enabling.
