Research
We undertake innovative, inter-disciplinary research on a range of issues relating to children’s policy
Communicate
We communicate research findings to contribute to better outcomes for children and young people.
Connect
We seek to connect researchers, policy makers and practitioners working on a range of issues to promote the human rights, wellbeing and best interests of children.
The Children’s Policy Centre
Highlights
These are our most recent publications, events, podcasts or activities from across the Centre – bringing together new research, presentations, forums and other work as it happens.
You will find lots more on the Resources page.
Falls the shadow: between the vision of the UNCRC and children’s experiences of poverty in Australia
This paper explores the gap between the transformative potential of the UNCRC and the lived realities of children who are growing up in poverty.
New Publication – Taking Action to Reduce Child Poverty: Patching, Reforming or Transforming?
We are pleased to announce a new publication from the Children’s Policy Centre: Taking Action to Reduce Child Poverty: Patching, Reforming or Transforming? by Sharon Bessell in the most recent issue of Social Alternatives.
Defining and Measuring Child Poverty in Australia
Poverty harms children now and into adulthood. It limits health, learning, and wellbeing, and undermines rights set out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, including an adequate standard of living, health care, education, and play.
The failure to protect the rights and needs of children in Gaza.
Over the past 80 years, international human rights and humanitarian law have emphasized the protection of children during war and conflict as one key principles of international humanitarian and human rights law.
The Children’s Policy Centre
Our Work
The Children’s Policy Centre undertakes research on a range of issues relating to the human rights, well-being and best interests of children and on the nature of childhood in contemporary societies. Our approach to research is genuinely inter-disciplinary and policy-relevant. Our research aims to create spaces for children’s experiences, views and priorities to be understood and brought into policy debates.
Child Poverty
Child-Centred Policy
Children, Childhoods and Community
Ethics and Methodology
The Children’s Policy Centre acknowledges, celebrates and pays our respects to the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people on whose country we are situated, and to all First Nations Australians on whose traditional lands we work. In our research, our aim is to engage genuinely and respectfully with the traditional owners of the lands we work on, recognising the importance of connection to community and country for all children and young people, but especially for First Nations children and young people.