Australian Child and Youth Wellbeing Atlas

A freely accessible interactive online platform that brings together geospatial and temporal data to visualise the health and wellbeing of children and young people aged 0 to 24 years across Australian communities. Designed to make child and youth data easier to access and interpret, the Atlas supports informed, targeted, evidence-based decision-making.

The challenge

Information about the health and wellbeing of children and young people is often spread across multiple sources, making it difficult to build a clear and timely picture of local needs. This fragmentation can limit the ability of policymakers, researchers, clinicians and community organisations to identify priority issues and direct support where it is most needed.

Our approach

Brings together indicators from a wide range of data sources into a single interactive platform. Structures indicators using The Nest, an evidence-based framework developed by ARACY, organised across seven key domains: Valued, loved and safe; Material Basics; Health; Learning; Participating; Identity and Culture; and Environment.

Key goals

• Improve access to child and youth wellbeing data across Australia.

• Support evidence-based planning, policy and service design.

• Identify local priorities and areas of greatest disadvantage.

• Highlight service gaps and inform more targeted investment.

• Strengthen advocacy, research and collaboration to improve outcomes.

Evaluation & impact

Designed to democratise access to data by making complex information more visible, accessible and useful to a wide range of users. Provides community-level insights into child and youth wellbeing.