LibGuides: Childhood and Youth Studies: Key resources

Research Ready guides to Resources

Research Ready - Evaluating resources
A short module showing how to evaluate resources using the CRAAP test
Research Ready - Scholarly vs non-scholarly sources
This module that explains the difference between Scholarly and non-Scholarly resources.

Australia's Welfare 2017 (AIHW)
Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies
ACYS ceased operation in 2015 due to cancelled funding.
Australian Institute of Family Studies
The AIFS provide a range of reports & statistics. They also monitor policy & current news.
Child Family Community Australia
As per the other organisations, CFCA provides access to publications, current news etc
Childhood and Youth (AIHW)
The Australian Institute of Health & Welfare provide a range of reports under this heading - including Child health, development & wellbeing; Child protection; Children's services; Youth health & wellbeing
OECD Society at a Glance 2016
Explore the chapter on Family, or browse the other OECD publications.
Report Card: The Wellbeing of Young Australians (2018)
The ARACY 2018 Report Card uses the latest available data from a range of sources to describe and illustrate Australia's performance across a number of health and wellbeing indicators.

Early Childhood Australia Code of Ethics
ECA Code of Ethics is a set of statements about appropriate and expected behaviour of early childhood professionals.
Ethical Research Involving Children
Explore the range of resources made available on this project site (Oct 2013) - and congratulations to our CCYP team!
Understanding consent in research involving children: the ethical issues
This report was published by the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (2010)

Centre for Children & Young People
CCYP is one of the key research centres at SCU. Explore their resources and links.
Australian Research Alliance for Children & Youth
ARACY provides a great range of resources, grounded in evidence and best practice.