Conceptualisation of social and emotional wellbeing for children and young people, and policy implications

This project arose out of concern among key child and youth wellbeing researchers, ARACY and the AIHW, about the paucity of nationally and internationally comparable data concerning social and emotional wellbeing of young Australians. Using funding provided in part to ARACY by the Fred P Archer Trust and to the AIHW by the Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, this project examines the conceptualisation of social and emotional wellbeing indicators for children and young people and the implications for policy and practice. Gerry Redmond is a Senior Research Fellow at the Social Policy Research Centre. His research focuses on child poverty and child wellbeing. He is currently involved in projects on children's living standards, the relationship between parents' education and children's development, and young people's perspectives on economic deprivation. She works in the areas of children and young people, social care and retirement incomes policy. She is involved in a large project on the social impacts of the care-giving responsibilities of children and young adults. Acknowledgements We would like to acknowledge the sustained and generous support, advice and encouragement of Geoff Holloway at ARACY and Sushma Mathur at AIHW; the project advisers,