The main purpose of this review of the current arrangements between the SWAp partners is to broadly assess the extent of success of the SWAp.

What is the actual state of child well-being today? How much are governments spending on children and are they spending it at the right times? What social and family policies have the most impact during children’s earliest years? Is growing up in a single-parent household detrimental to children? Is inequality that persists across generations a...

Concerned about financial barriers to participation, the authors of this report canvassed the cost burden to parents of education in a government school. To achieve 90 per cent Year 12 attainment, they found, will require educational policy reform. The authors applied a social inclusion lens, allowing for not only subject fees, uniforms and textbooks but...

Using examples from the Melbourne Declaration on the Educational Goals for Young Australians and from work completed by ACER, this paper examines the challenges of measuring and improving the non-academic outcomes of schooling. The paper outlines common difficulties encountered when defining non-academic outcomes and establishing mechanisms to measure outcomes within schools, and the paper explores...

The School Focused Youth Service (SFYS) was established in 1998 as a joint initiative between the Department of Human Services and the then Department of Education. The SFYS is inclusive of the school sector of the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD), the Catholic Education Commission of Victoria (CECV), and the Association of...