Research from Camp Australia, the nation’s largest provider of Outside School Hours Care (OSHC), has found children in Australia’s most locked down states – ACT, NSW and Vic – have been most impacted by the pandemic. These findings have highlighted the need to support young...
The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation is delighted to be leading an exciting new community-focused initiative on behalf of the Victorian Government as part of the Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures strategy. Launched today, our new dedicated workforce of Healthy Kids Advisors expands and strengthens our vision...
Tania Ferfolja and Jacqueline Ullman report on the outcome of their study of over 2,000 Australian parents Debates about how schools acknowledge gender and sexuality diversity have been ongoing in Australia. It’s often claimed parents oppose the inclusion of gender and sexuality diversity content in the...
Ruth Jeanes, Justen O’Connor, Dawn Penney, Ramon Spaaij, Dr Jonathan Magee, Dr Eibhlish O’Hara and Lisa Lymbery, report on the need for informal sport opportunities in Australia Statistics show a continued decline in organised sport participation over the past decade, with the Intergenerational Review of Australian...
Lucy Treloar regards head lice as a great leveller, although they do precipitate the odd social crisis. My youngest son is standing leaning against the kitchen sink, his head bowed away from me. I’m looking intently, very, very intently, into the furrows I’m ploughing through his...
Researchers, Christopher Mayes, Deana Leahy and Kristen Lyons ask "Has selling ‘good bugs not drugs’ for kids’ health gone too far?" Does your child have a “gut-friendly” lunchbox? It’s Healthy Lunchbox Week, a back-to-school initiative of Nutrition Australia. School lunches are essential for long-term child health...
Even more kitchen and garden goodness in the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program for Early Childhood Perfect for little hands and curious minds, the Kitchen Garden Program for Early Childhood is a play-based, hands-on program that helps teach children about fresh, seasonal, delicious food. Setting up the program is...
Staff and children in preschool and childcare aren’t being protected like in schools. We need a national plan, writes Thea van de Mortel By late January, more than 400 early learning centres were closed across the country due to the Omicron wave, and many more were...
Once a form of ‘social camouflage’, school uniforms have become impractical and unfair, writes Johanna Reidy As the start of a new school year looms, school uniforms are being dusted off or new ones bought. At the same time, age-old debates about the pros and cons...
Far from being a quiet time, a child’s middle years - between ages eight and 12 – can be transformative. But according to Dr Lisa Mundy we need to better understand those changes. I’ve always been fascinated by what happens during childhood. I’m really interested...
