This committee provides advice on the design and delivery of values education in Australia. It has a large varied number of representatives.

The Advisory committee has provided significant guidance to ensure that the project is consistent with the Values Framework and the workplan. In particular, the Advisory Committee has continually encouraged the Management Committee to ensure that a community and parent voice is prominent in the twilight seminars, school forums and in the professional learning activities.

The National Values Education Cross-Sectoral Advisory Group will meet twice in 2009 to provide advice on the design and delivery of Values Education projects in SA schools. A meeting was held on Friday 13 February, with the other being on Friday 18 September 2009.

The foremost initiative of the committee currently is the ’Grants to Schools’ project. This is divided into two different areas—Civics and Citizenship and Values Education.

The Civics and Citizenship grants aim to support schools to foster and document good practice in teaching Civics and Citizenship Education. The purpose of the Values Education grants is to provide grants to schools to enable them to develop whole school approaches to values education and to embed values through school-based activities and the curriculum. Schools who are successful in their grant application will be required design and implement an approach to values education in their school.

This final Values Education conference will be held on Monday 26 October 2009. For school leaders and teachers, it will focus on Values and Inclusion and the need to acknowledge core common values that are shared regardless of background, beliefs or personal circumstances. The conference will feature keynote speakers and showcase good practice models in teaching values education in South Australian schools.

For more information visit:

http://www.decs.sa.gov.au/valueseducation/

http://www.valueseducation.edu.au/values/val_south_australia_news_240709,28490.html