*** Registration for this event is now open. To RSVP, please fill out the short registration form below. ***
Please join us for a post-budget Policy Conversation focused on the safety and wellbeing of Tasmanian children. At this event we will be joined by academic and researcher Sharon Bessell to discuss the 2024/25 Tasmanian State Budget and its potential implications for Tasmanian families and children, as well as the communities and organisations working to keep all Tasmanian children safe and well.
If you have any budget-related issues on the theme of child safety you’d like to see discussed at this Policy Conversation, or any particular questions for Sharon or the TasCOSS team, please get in touch with Meg Tait, Industry Response Project Lead via email.
Want to learn more about the budget? This event is the perfect accompaniment to the TasCOSS 2024/25 Tasmanian State Budget Briefing on Friday 13 September 2024. If you haven’t already, please register for the TasCOSS budget briefing.
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Details on how to join the Microsoft Teams session will be distributed following registration.
Registration closes 12noon, Thursday, 12 September 2024.
Register to attend the upcoming Policy Conversation: State Budget Implications for the Safety and Wellbeing of Tasmanian Children
Registration for the upcoming Policy Conversation: State Budget Implications for the Safety and Wellbeing of Tasmanian Children has now closed.
Sharon Bessell is an academic and researcher specialising in the rights and experiences of children. She is a Professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University, director of the Children’s Policy Centre and co-host of Policy Forum Pod. Sharon’s work is focused on three broad areas: social policy, social justice and the human rights of children; gendered and generational dimensions of poverty; and the experience of childhood.
Sharon is currently leading a research project entitled ‘More For Children’ – this is a transformative, long-term research project with the aim of reducing child poverty and State Budget implications for the safety and wellbeing of Tasmanian children increasing supports to enhance the wellbeing of all Australian children. It involves the development of a child-centered framework for assessing multidimensional child poverty and is using a rights-based and child-centred approach, involving participatory research in collaboration with two place-based initiatives in Tasmania and Victoria.
Sharon has also published research on a wide range of issues relating to child and family wellbeing, including rights-based research with children, the impact of poverty (including intergenerational and multidimensional poverty) and the role of the child and childhood in community development and local identity.