Future Healthy Countdown

Learning and Employment Pathways 2025

Future Healthy Countdown 2030: learning and employment pathways for healthy children and young people

When we invest in equitable education, we strengthen the foundations for every child’s wellbeing, opportunity, and lifelong learning.

Editorial

Addressing the unnatural divide: why health and education are the
necessary foundations of equitable child outcomes

Perspective

The First Future Healthy Countdown 2030 progress report: tracking
Australian children and young people’s health and wellbeing to drive accountability

Perspective

What fully funded public schools could do

Perspective

Early childhood learning for lifelong health impact

Research

Sharing custodianship of learning: development of an Indigenous Nation-led learning charter model centring self-determination and wellbeing

Research

The power of recognising more: a qualitative study of young people’s perspectives on broader recognition for learning and wellbeing

Only 1.4% of public schools are funded to the minimum standard (SRS). The Better and Fairer Schools Agreement aims to fix this, but full funding may not arrive until 2034— leaving a generation of children behind.

We are calling on the following policy action: Properly fund public schools, starting by providing full and accountable Schooling Resource Standard (SRS) funding for all schools, with immediate effect for schools in communities facing structural disadvantage.