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Schools must move beyond rankings to understand students early, improving wellbeing, engagement and outcomes through support

Young people told us how the chaos, fear and emotional exhaustion of life at home made it difficult to complete homework or study for exams.

As school returns for the year, parents across Australia are worried about their children’s health as parts of the country swelter through extreme heat. 

Children need family-friendly schools, not extended hours. The struggle of working parents and the impact on families and children require flexible workplaces and accessible after-school care.

A national survey of 3043 Australians by The Parenthood found that 66% of parents don’t believe it’s safe for school to return as planned.

Remote school may look different to ‘normal’ school, but children are still being taught and many are still engaged in the curriculum.

Teachers and educators seem to be the missing voices in the debate about whether schools and early education and care services remain open or closed.

Australian books are not consistently taught in classrooms and, when they are, they more often than not marginalise female, refugee and Indigenous authors.

If the assumption that it is always mum, not dad, that does the parenting isn’t challenged or questioned it will never change.