In 2025 alone, Australian children lost an estimated 800,000 days of early learning due to climate-related closures of early childhood education and care services. Floods, bushfires, storms and extreme heat are already disrupting the services children rely on to learn, grow and thrive, and the impacts are not felt equally. Children in disadvantaged and climate-exposed […]
The Nest aligns with the UNCRC, outlining six essential wellbeing domains that centre children’s needs, while the UNCRC also defines responsibilities for governments, families, and organisations to support child wellbeing. How does The Nest correspond to the UNCRC? The Nest is a way of thinking about the wellbeing of children and young people. It is […]
ARACY’s Thriving Kids submission calls for transformational reform so every child in Australia can thrive. We have a rare chance to move systems from reactive and medicalised to preventative, systemic and enabling.
