In the language of children and young people, commitments that governments make to them through laws, policies, strategies and plans are treated as promises. They consider them to be promises made to ensure resources of government are channelled into meaningful improvement to their lives. Keeping Our Promises is a report which focuses on assessing whether the promises government has made across the five domains of children’s and young people’s lives: Education, Health, Safety, Wellbeing, and Citizenship have been kept.
This important report, prepared annually, monitors, maps and grades the “promises” made by the South Australian Government to ensure all children and young people are healthy, safe and thriving – thereby setting benchmarks against which progress in subsequent years are assessed.
Keeping Our Promises also includes recommendations for improvements that can be made across a range of government departments, based on input from children and young people whose ideas and opinions have been sought to ensure they have a voice in decisions that impact on them.