An ambitious overhaul to South Australia’s early childhood education and care sectors has been launched following the sweeping recommendations from the Royal Commission into Early Childhood Education and Care. Commissioner Julia Gillard handed down her 43 recommendations to overhaul the ...

Children as young as three could be attending preschool in South Australia following the recommendations of a Royal Commission report released on Tuesday. A Royal Commission into Early Childhood Education and Care led by Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard was launched ...

Former PM Julia Gillard is set to lead a royal commission into South Australia's early childhood education sector to look at how the state can bring forward access to preschool by one year.  Gillard’s appointment follows a pledge made by ...

EducationReview · Dr Kate de Bruin | How education for people with a disability needs to change Dr Kate de Bruin, an expert and lecturer in inclusive education at Monash University, recently provided evidence to the Royal Commission into Violence, ...

Tasmania will become the latest state to make it easier for child abuse victims to sue for damages by removing time limits. The government is drafting new laws to abolish limitation periods on civil claims for damages for victims of ...

A panel of young people have spoken out about what they would like to see change in the handling of sexual abuse allegations at schools. Ben, Julia, Elizabeth, Claire and Jaimsie were all involved in a long-running research study for the Royal ...

No matter how rare child sexual abuse may be, an appropriate response is urgently needed when it does occur, one member of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has stated. Commissioner Helen Milroy, a West Australian psychiatrist for children and adolescents, said: ...

A Victorian Catholic school principal has argued there is an “unsustainable and inappropriate” power imbalance between Catholic school leaders and the church, one that needs fixing if institutionalised child abuse is not to be repeated. Paul Tobias, principal of Geelong’s ...

We’ve all heard about the horrific abuse of children at the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre exposed by ABC’s Four Corners program, and the subsequent government announcement of a royal commission to investigate all juvenile jails in the Northern Territory. ...