Child Safety and Wellbeing

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Health and Wellbeing

• Young Australians: Their health and wellbeing 2011 - AIHW. This report provides the latest available information on how Australia's young people are faring according to a set of national indicators of health and wellbeing.
• Listen to the Children: 2011 Child Rights NGO Report Australia (2011) Child Rights Taskforce 2011. This reort shows that Australia has not developed child-sensitive laws, policies, initiatives and systems; and that Federal, State and Territory Government bodies do not consult with children effectively on issues that affect their lives.
• A new narrative of young people's health and wellbeing (2011) - Richard Eckersley, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health. Questions the widely accepted story that young people's health is continuing to improve in line with historic trends.
• Speaking out about wellbeing: The views of Western Australian children and young people (2011) Commissioner for Children and Young People. This research, ordered by the Commissioner, was conducted in 2009 to find out what children and young people consider to be important to their wellbeing and 'living life to the full'. Nearly 1000 children and young people between the ages of 5 and 18 participated in the research.
• Doing Better for Children – OECD, Simon Chapple and Dominic Richardson (2009). The report presents amongst others, information on the state of child well-being today, how much governments are spending on children, what social and family policies have the most impact during children’s earliest years, how child well-being compares across the OECD. A child well-being framework and a range of policy recommendations is also made.
• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Key national indicators of children’s health, development and wellbeing: indicator framework of ‘A picture of Australia’s children 2009' (2008). This bulletin previews the reporting framework and key national indicators that will be the basis of the report, 'A picture of Australia's children 2009', scheduled for release in 2009.

Wellbeing following separation

• The Well Being of Children Following Parental Separation and Divorce, the Well Being of Children Following Parental Separation and Divorce Research Consortium, Monash University (ARACY Funded Project 2009). This literature review tracks the path of perspectives from early divorce research in Australia that argued parental separation and divorce had only a short term impact on children’s well being to current research which indicates that parental separation and divorce is a long term process that may trigger later damaging effects.
• Impact of family breakdown on children’s wellbeing,Dept of Children, Schools and Families, UK (2009). This study found that there are significant differences between children who experience parental separation compared with children from intact families on a range of outcomes including educational achievement, behaviour, mental health, self concept, social competence and long-term health.

Anti-Bullying

• Violent and antisocial behaviours among young adolescents in Australian communities, Williams et al (2009). The focus of this ARACY paper is on identifying factors that either increase or reduce the likelihood of young people engaging in violent and antisocial behaviours.
• Working with families concerned with school-based bullying (2008), by Dr Jodie Lodge AFRC Briefing No. 11, Australian Family Relationships Clearinghouse.

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