This report outlines how the Thriving Kids initiative can make the most difference for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. For Thriving Kids to succeed, it must be designed and delivered in genuine partnership with Aboriginal Community-Controlled Organisations.

This report captures the key insights, priorities and recommendations identified by participants in a forum held to help advance reconciliation across education systems. Focused on truth-telling, cultural responsiveness and shared responsibility, the report highlights three key recommendations that must be acted on at all levels to support genuine Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander self-determination in...

This report analyses the disproportionate use of school disciplinary absences on First Nations students, students with disability and students living in out-of-home care and the intersection with poverty. It positions the issue as not only a matter for education policy and practice, but one requiring systemic reform, emphasising inequitable system design over individual behaviour.

This report on the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and youth proposes and explores a novel approach to measuring social and emotional wellbeing, inspired by a holistic construct developed by a First Nations scholar-led team.

Children and young people are more than witnesses to domestic and family violence (DFV); they experience DFV and its impacts directly. This paper​ considers progress in embedding the understanding of children and young people as victim-survivors of DFV within New South Wales policy and practice, looking at social services, education, justice and child protection.