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In today’s post, Dr. Maedeh Aboutalebi Karkavandi Senior Research and Evaluation Analyst at Good Shepherd Australia and New Zealand (GSANZ) reflects on the first day of the Australian Evaluation Society conference in Darwin, where a keynote from Dr Robyn Ober challenged her to think more deeply about where questions come from and whose perspectives they reflect.
To finish the week, we continue to explore the theme of young people’s rights this time through a piece by Ananya Awasthi, research assistant at the Centre for Human-AI Information Environments (CHAI) at RMIT University and Master of Public Policy graduate. In this blog, Ananya writes about crossover kids who are children involved in both the child protection and criminal justice systems and makes the case for greater communication lines and information sharing between these areas.
Today’s post is written by Aiden and Zach with Sharon Bessell and Cadhla O’Sullivan from the Children’s Policy Centre, at the Australian National University. A part of the Children’s Policy Centre’s work is to contribute to strong and supportive communities for children and young people. Aiden and Zach are both aged 13 and have contributed their expertise to thinking about what communities can do to support children and young people.
Their important messages include that we can never know for sure what’s going on in a person’s life until we make the effort to understand them and their cirumstances, and also how much kids can value having adults in a variety of roles to talk to - both at school and beyond.