Acknowledgements
The Child Development Council acknowledges and respects Aboriginal peoples as the state’s first peoples and nations, recognises Aboriginal peoples as traditional owners and occupants of land and water in South Australia, and that their spiritual, social, cultural and economic practices come from their traditional lands and waters, that they maintain their cultural and heritage beliefs, languages and laws which are of ongoing importance, and that they have made and continue to make a unique and irreplaceable contribution to the state.
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Key priority for action in 2023
Addressing data gaps and quality
Good quality data are fundamental to government and policy makers for creating strategies, setting objectives or developing and implementing policies people.
Data Lag Challenges
Data lag challenges have been compounded by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
on collection processes, survey frequency and methodology changes.
What is the Council is doing?
Raising awareness and engagement of the data gaps with South Australia’s decision makers and data custodians and seeking their cooperation to fill these gaps.
South Australia’s children and young people at a glance
363,100
Children and young people under 18 years estimated to be living in South Australia.
53%
Aboriginal children and young people under 20 years were living in major cities in South Australia.
20%
South Australia’s total
population; slightly more than half (51%) were male and 49% were female
26%
Estimated to be living in the most disadvantaged socio-economic circumstances (19.3% nationally)