The case for a federal minister for children

In today’s The Saturday Paper Rosie Batty and Principal Consultant, Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon, argue it is unfathomable that children are still repeatedly falling off policy agendas relating to domestic, family & sexual violence. The status quo is unacceptable for the current generation, & the next generation deserves better.

There is still no one in Canberra with a dedicated focus on Australian children. At various times over the past decade there have been calls for a federal minister for children – now is the time for this appointment. Children are effectively omitted from policies that affect them by virtue of not having a clear leadership seat at the table. It is not a matter of whose voice is the loudest wins but whether they have a voice at all. We are reminded of the continued relevance of the findings of the Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence, which described children as the “silent” victims of family violence.

👉🏼 Read the article here: https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topic/2024/06/29/the-case-federal-minister-children

Sequre Consulting is currently working on a number of projects which aim to build the evidence based needed to improve responses to children as victim-survivors of domestic, family and sexual violence in their own right.

You can read more about our current projects here: https://sequre-consulting.com/current-projects/