The cost of bad design is a clarion call. There is no excuse for bad design, and no reason to accept poor standards, yet exemplary buildings remain the exception.

The Children’s Cases Project (CCP) focuses on the interests of the child and the parents' or caretakers' proposals for the future of the child, rather than the past history of the parties' relationships. The final report of the exploratory study looks at, amongst other things, the impacts on parenting capacity and child well-being.

In keeping in line with a new emphasis on a whole of government cross-sectoral approach to childhood policy, the AIHW has broadened its reporting framework to encompass a wider set on influences on childhood development. This bulletin provides an overview of the key indicators to be published in A Picture of Australia's Children 2005, as...

Papers from ACER's research conference on the the social and emotional development of young people are available online. Among the speakers are Michael Sawyer, who argues that a combination of falling birth rates and increasing rates of adolescent mental health problems has the potential to adversely affect Australia's growth and development.

This resource kit supports the Health Promoting Schools Framework and provides principles and strategies of good programs and practices of quality healthy eating and physical activity Such as: Implement school policies and standards that support healthy eatingand active living. Provide professional development opportunities for teachers and othersupport staff to teach and promote healthy eating and...