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Report
Truth, recognition and healing: report on victim-survivors’ experiences of child sexual abuse in Victorian government schools and certain non-government schools before 2000
The report provides an independent public record of the people who came forward and shared their experiences of child sexual abuse in Victorian Government schools and certain other non-government schools prior to the year 2000. It shares how the government and the community can better prevent and strengthen the response to child sexual abuse at...
Report
Beyond behaviour: extending the analysis of school disciplinary absences in Queensland state schools
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.
Report
Public school funding
This report considers the impact of the State Government's decision to delay raising Victoria’s school funding to 75% of the Schooling Resource Standard. It makes a number of recommendations for the Victorian and Commonwealth Government to improve funding levels and mechanisms for public schools.
Evaluation
Promoting wellbeing through school-based anti-racism initiatives
This report presents findings from a school-based research project examining the development, implementation and outcomes of a whole-school anti-racism and cultural inclusion initiative in a South Australian secondary school. Findings indicate that this sustained, whole-school approach led to a range of positive outcomes.
Report
The building divide in Australian schools: how capital funding fuels educational inequity
This report reveals a deep and growing divide in school infrastructure funding in Australia. Over the past decade private schools have outspent public schools on capital works by $38 billion. The report finds this inequity is fuelled by the lack of federal funding for capital investment in public schools. It provides six recommendations for the...