This paper examines how the voice of children and young people in State care can better contribute to the decisions that affect their lives. Today, there is broad recognition of the critical role of the child’s perspective in any valid and effective policy, program, community, educational or legislative endeavour that affects their lives. This has...

The research study emerged from the authors’ experiences as early childhood teachers and as initial teacher early childhood lecturers in the tertiary education sector. The development of bicultural competency is a fundamental foundation to the provision of quality early childhood education in Aotearoa New Zealand. To address the issue of teacher bicultural competence to apply...

The role of social networking (including online websites and text messaging) and related cyber bullying in influencing the lives of young people is an emerging issue in Australia. Social networking provides an unprecedented form of communication access for young people. It is a largely unregulated environment that can offer many positive supports and opportunities for...

This report provides an analysis of the responses to questions from a bespoke NFER online teacher survey, using NFER's Techer Voice Panel, for the DfE's Vital Programme (delivered by the Open University). Covering the topics of e-safety, cyberbullying, pupil use of mobile phones and social networking, the survey found that: 87 per cent of teachers...

This study reports encouraging trends for WA children, overall, but also confirms the ongoing disadvantage of Aboriginal children and young people across a range of wellbeing measures. • The inaugural The State of Western Australia’s Children and Young People report demonstrates that the majority of Western Australian (WA) children and young people are faring well...