Throughout January 2020, Helen Connolly, SA’s Commissioner for Children and Young People visited South Australian Early Learning Centres to ask children what they thought was meant by the term ‘helping’. The backdrop...
Twelve months ago this week, Commissioner for Children and Young People launched Get Around It – an initiative aimed at showcasing young South Australian thinkers, makers, and doers. This week as part of Youth...
Over many years working with children and young people, I have met kids who are enthusiastic, energetic, optimistic and idealistic. I have also met kids who are frustrated and desperate, angry, heartbroken and lost....
These are certainly challenging times. It’s very difficult to take a ‘business as usual’ approach when it looks increasingly as though the long term impact of COVID19 will be profound. In times of...
Commissioner Helen Connolly with young refugees and education expert Professor Colleen McLaughlin at the Youth Education and Employment Forum hosted by the...
At the start of this year’s Writer’s Festival, South Australia’s Commissioner for Children and Young People brought 100 South Australian children together to celebrate children’s reading,...