The Centre for Child Rights is an initiative of 54 reasons, in partnership with SNAICC, The Australian National University, University of Melbourne, and Western Sydney University.
The Australian Centre for Child Rights is an initiative of 54 reasons (part of the Save the Children Australia Group), Australia’s leading child rights organisation, in collaboration with our partners.
54 reasons exists to make rights real for children and young people in Australia. We support more than 25,000 children and families through 35+ outcome-driven services in all states and territories in Australia. We work in areas where child rights aren’t met in deep or consistent ways, in ways others can't or won't, and we measure our impact. And because the system doesn’t always create the conditions for children and young people to thrive, we're working to lift a national conversation on child rights, and investing to prove the potential of child voice in systems change.
SNAICC is the national non-government peak body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families. We work for the fulfilment of the rights of our children, to ensure their safety, development, and well-being. We advocate for the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children as children under the UNCRC and as Indigenous peoples under UNDRIP. SNAICC has been a passionate national voice representing the interests of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families for decades. Championing community control and self-determination is at the heart of SNAICC’s work.
The Young and Resilient Research Centre in the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University is an Australian-based, international research centre that unites young people with researchers, practitioners, innovators and policymakers to explore the role of technology in children’s and young people’s lives and how it can be used to improve individual and community resilience across generations. Guided by a child rights approach, the Centre has pioneered youth participation research methods and youth-centred forms of measurement to drive evidence-based policy and programming that positively impacts children’s and young people’s everyday worlds.
The Children’s Policy Centre is part of the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. The Centre undertakes innovative, inter-disciplinary research on a range of issues relating to children’s policy, children’s human rights, and social justice, to contribute to better outcomes for children and young people. The Centre’s flagship research is More for Children, a program of transformative research aiming to understand, assess, respond to and ultimately end child poverty in Australia.
The Human Rights Program is part of the Melbourne Law School, Australia’s oldest law school. The Program’s core aims include developing a program of activities that will raise awareness, educate and stimulate collaborative conversations about human rights among policy makers, members of civil society, the private sector, professional bodies and members of the general public. The Program’s work draws on the extensive range of teaching, research and engagement activities being undertaken within the Melbourne Law School in the field of human rights.
Children’s and young people’s voices and needs matter most, but it’s adults who we most need to inform, educate, influence and inspire to uphold children’s rights. The Australian Centre for Child Rights’ theory of change recognises this, and describes how we intend to make it practical for children and young people to be more directly involved in creating and ultimately co-leading or leading this change over time.
