This roundtable provided stakeholders and experts with the opportunity to share their thoughts on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children and young people and discuss what could be improved for a future crisis. It was recommended that the needs of children be prioritised and considered more explicitly when planning and responding to public...

The Youth Justice Bill 2024 aims to replace the current youth justice legislative framework with a new standalone Youth Justice Act. It proposes significant amendments and changes at each stage of the youth justice process, including frontline response, diversions, sentencing, custodial settings, parole and post-release. Some of the most notable reforms include: raising the minimum...

Young children are spending an increased amount of their time indoors. This article summarises international and Australian research evidence on why this is and considers what this means for their well-being and for the people who support families.

The gas industry have successfully resisted moves to regulate them and the gas appliance industry has never been willing to work constructively with government, and it is their customers who lose out. This briefing paper covers: how the gas lobby operates to the detriment of Victorians and blocked regulation of its products, how gas appliances...

Most of the money that flows to the UK's National Health Service now goes through Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) designed to simplify, integrate and localise the management of key healthcare services. This short paper, based on interviews with those involved in ICSs, looks at how they can be made to work better.