Recognition due for nurses’ efforts in child protection
Escalating problems surrounding child protection and domestic violence have put nurses at the front line of this fraught situation – but too often they are […]
Healthy Start to Life
Prompting healthy discussion about paediatric palliative care
Not every child enjoys a healthy start to life – and too often the task of addressing childhood mortality becomes a fraught conversation that struggles […]
Promoting birth experiences that are best for everybody
Dramatic changes to birthing practice in Australia – with the normal vaginal birth rate dropping below 50% for the first time – corresponds with increasing […]
Partnership drives Early Years reform
Knowledge and insights gained through collaboration with Wellbeing SA have informed a strong and strategic submission from the Flinders’ Caring Futures Institute to the Royal […]
New research lab tackles body image with Australian of the Year
Flinders University is now the home of The Embrace Impact Lab, a new health and wellbeing research initiative to help young Australians and their parents […]
South Australia's child development initiative: Early screening for lifelon...
Since 2009, the Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) has identified a troubling trend in the decline of childhood development in South Australia, particularly among ‘middle-class’ […]
Advancing international inclusive literacy practices for children with deve...
Learning to read is a human right yet children with developmental disabilities often receive inadequate literacy instruction. This issue is compounded by the fact that […]
Addressing Australia's reading crisis: initiatives to improve literacy and ...
Around 20% of Australian children fail to meet the minimum reading standard by the time they reach school leaving age, with the most recent NAPLAN […]
Supporting maternal and child health in first 1000 days
Recently, the Child and Families Research team in the Caring Futures Institute at Flinders University hosted visiting International Researcher, Dr Karen Matvienko-Sikar from the School of […]