Keeping Kids at School examines the issue of improving school attendance and suggests how the collection of information is an essential starting point. It also outlines approaches that schools might take to improve attendance, based on both research and the experience of schools themselves. Absence from school and class not only affects the absent student...

Funding arising from the Suicide Prevention Task Force Report enabled the development of a comprehensive statewide framework for student welfare incorporating primary prevention, early intervention, intervention and postvention in 1998. Funding arising from the Suicide Prevention Task Force Report (July 1997) enabled the Department of Education to enhance welfare services for schools and their communities...

Student welfare is enhanced when all members of the school community participate in the learning programs and life of the school. This student welfare policy is revised from the 1986 Student Welfare Policy. Student welfare in government schools is contextualised as: encompassing everything the school community does to meet the personal, social and learning needs...

This was one of the first country-wide reports to recommend ways of improving access to high quality schooling in rural areas of Australia. Tabled in 1988, this is the first time a digitised version of this report, known as the 'Boomer report', has been made publically available. The report was produced by the now-abolished Commonwealth...

This is the first time a digitised version of this review on school education, known as the ‘Karmel Report’, has been made available. Tabled in 1973, the report greatly influenced how schools in Australia were funded. On 12 December 1972 the newly elected Whitlam government appointed an Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission. Chaired...