The Valuing Children Initiative Benchmark Survey: 2016 (the Survey) has found that 80% of Australians are concerned about the health and happiness of future generations of Australian children. The Survey also found that less than half of those surveyed believe that all children in Australia have a fair and equal opportunity to flourish and to...

The impetus for the Valuing Children Initiative (VCI) is the desire to ensure that all children in Australia experience the caring, safe and supportive childhood they deserve and have the right to expect. The ambition of the VCI is to inspire Australians to value all children, to understand that a child’s wellbeing is the shared...

The tendency to focus on the short term, and the inability to govern for future generations, has been identified as characterising much of modern day politics. Focus on the short term has been identified as damaging to economic reform and efforts to address issues such as climate change. Yet the impact on children, and future...